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Assessing Afghanistan
In hundreds of interviews and several trips to Afghanistan in recent years, the Standing Committee on National Security and Defence...
Comprehensive operations: Moving to a JIMP-capable Land Force
Establishing a comprehensive approach to operations, whether at home or abroad, has required new thinking of the Canadian Forces, especially...
Weapon for the warfighter: Knowledge is power
Information is a weapon. With timely, accurate and comprehensive information, the operational commander can anticipate and counter the actions of...
Interpreting al-Qaeda
Al Qaeda in its Own Words Gilles Keppel and Jean-Pierre Milelli, editors; translated by Pascale Ghazaleh Harvard University Press, 2008...
Development possible if in Afghan hands
I returned to Afghanistan last December, travelling to Kabul, the Panjshir Valley, and Kandahar. It had been several years since...
Social enterprise: Working within local culture
Sipping tea, we sat with a half-dozen village elders in the mosque courtyard, soaking in the thick calm of the...
Effective aid: Why does Canada struggle?
In an age of increasing global prosperity, over one billion people still live on less than $1 per day, 100...
SITRep
District program means more effective policing When Arif Lalani stepped into his role as Canada’s Ambassador to Afghanistan one year...
A forgotten armoured arsenal: The Montreal Locomotive Works
Canadians serving in besieged Sarajevo in the 1990s could well have come under fire from an M-36 tank destroyer built...