Protecting Alberta’s critical energy infrastructure
With Osama bin Laden’s 2004 call for attacks on Arab oil and Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s recent reminder to the...
Operation Active Endeavour: NATO’s impact on maritime domain awareness
The past five years have witnessed tremendous growth in global interest over maritime security, a dynamic in which NATO’s Operation...
A pan-government approach to marine security
“In today’s global environment, no one agency can effectively deal with the asymmetrical threats we face,” Ray Oliver acknowledges. “The...
Countering a narco-economy
As Canadian troops combat the Taliban over rugged terrain in the isolated, rural communities of Afghanistan’s Kandahar Province, they are...
NORAD: Renewing a unique partnership
For almost 50 years, the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) has served as a unique bi-national partnership. No such...
Transforming NORAD
Eric Findley clearly enjoys a good movie and likes to pepper his presentations with Hollywood references, but the deputy commander...
Paper promises or real defence purchases?
Hallelujah and hosannas. That seems to be the response of supporters to the Canadian Forces extraordinary string of June announcements....
The birth of CANAIRELIEF
The Darfor situation in the Sudan raises the question of what happens when governments fail to act as the public...
Long and meritorious service medals
The British first instituted a military long service medal in 1845 – the Army Meritorious Service Medal – followed by...
A logical solution for rapid analysis
Amongst the paraphernalia scattered throughout a house used by an enemy insurgent group, a computer is captured containing thousands of...