Climate security as a catalyst for peace
Environmental degradation, poor environmental management and the burden of climate change will have a profound affect on global security. However,...
Army, Navy, Air Force, Cyber?
The time has come to take a hard look at the structure of the Canadian military and consider the idea...
The tactics of tackling the Taliban
Dancing with the Dushman Lieutenant-Colonel Ian Hope Canadian Defence Academy Press, 2009 Free, 162 pages In his much-lauded recent book,...
Autonomy for the Arctic?
“The world is coming to the Arctic,” Rob Huebert told an audience at the Munk Centre in Toronto in March....
Letters: Misinterpreting Russia’s northern policy concept
With the official release of “The Fundamentals of the State Policy of Russia in the Arctic up to 2020 and...
Virtual flight: networking air operators
On a slightly overcast afternoon over the Juan de Fuca Strait, two CF-18 Hornets on temporary deployment to 19 Wing...
PMCs and the comprehensive approach
In a world where conflict often involves a myriad of ethnic, religious, ideological and material drivers, successful military operations are...
Measuring the effects of soft power
Soft power, the ability to indirectly influence others’ behavior without resorting to force, is now omnipresent in academic debates and...
Deploying the new knowledge media
“Knowledge management” is not about the management of knowledge but is the management of the uses of knowledge to gain...
A security shift and the hemispheric rift
As 2001 began, and a new American administration prepared to take up office in the White House, there was much...