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Total life responsibility: Shifting the onus on defence procurement
It has been more than 50 years since Canadian Forces procurement garnered so much attention. The Navy, Air Force and...
Afghan algebra: Where 3D equals 1C
The coordination strategy that now shapes the thinking of Canada’s Afghanistan Task Force barely survived its first day. The construct...
Why humanitarian impartiality means independent action
Aligned, western governments and the United Nations (UN) are each integrating their diplomatic, military and aid capacities to better achieve...
Protecting humanitarian space
Mixed signals, missed targets and blurred lines – all are among the concerns of some Canadian non-governmental organizations as they...
Great Lakes foundry’s almost forgotten aviation arsenal
Fourteen hundred fighters for the RAF, 800 dive-bombers for the US Navy and Marines, and G-23s for the Spanish Republican...
CANAMP proposes national investment in JSS bid
It’s not hard for Frank Smith to imagine what the Joint Support Ship (JSS) project, the navy’s largest build in...
Improvised explosive devices: Lessons from Northern Ireland
Special Kind of Courage: 321 EOD Squadron – Battling the Bombers Chris Ryder Methuen, 2006, 334 pages, $19.95 “Bombs: Taliban’s...
From theory to policy: The strategic engagement of S&T
In April 2007, the Department of National Defence released its first-ever Defence Science and Technology Strategy, focusing not only on...
Lost in translation: Understanding tribal culture
Come Back to Afghanistan Said Hyder Akbar, Bloomsbury, 2005, 337pages, $14.50 The twelve-year old Pathan male shot his father’s killer...
Surfboard SEALs: A Canadian’s concept for a sea reconnaissance unit
Few among Canada’s military have enjoyed the distinction of creating a unit and then leading it into combat, but an...