Overloaded and boxed in
“By themselves, we have no deficiencies,” Captain Olivier Sylvain says as he points to an array of sensors on a...
Developing the future, capturing the present
Major-General Stuart Beare has clear lines of responsibility emanating from the Chief and Vice Chief of the Defence Staff as...
Survivor of Haitian earthquake returns to help
On January 12, 2010, Lieutenant-Commander Shekhar Gothi was at work at the United Nations headquarters in Port au Prince. It...
Preparing for a three ocean force
Much has been written about Canada’s long history of naval presence on the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. As a changing...
Inside Industry
Lockheed unveils Hercules team Executives from Lockheed Martin spent the third week of March travelling across the country unveiling part...
SitRep
Warfare or security awareness? Spend a day with IT security experts and you’ll spend the next week scouring your computer...
Sustaining transformation
Inside Canadian Forces Transformation: Institutional Leadership as a Catalyst for Change Lieutenant-General (Ret’d) Michael Jeffery Canadian Defence Academy Press, 2009...
How to prevent a mass atrocity
Images of slaughter in Rwanda, Bosnia and Kosovo continue to haunt the Western world, as evidenced by two major reports...
The three failures of Afghan policy
Preserving NATO’s integrity is one of Canada’s leading foreign policy priorities, even as its immediate combat role around Qandahar will...
Applying COIN: From principles to reality
The fundamental maxim of counterinsurgency (COIN) theory holds that the strategic centre of gravity is the populace. And according to...