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A glimpse into Afghanistan
A Canadian medic aiding a badly injured Afghan child; a soldier in conversation with village elders; Canadian troops emerging from...
Buying local opens business in Kabul
With all the money pouring into United Nations’ missions, it’s eye-opening just how little reaches the people directly affected by...
Music to their ears: A Pashtu-Canadian voice in Kandahar
Every minute they are listening to us is a minute they are not...
A military solution to fostering civil service capacity
In August 2005, Colonel Mike Capstick led a 15-person Canadian Forces team into complex, dangerous and very unfamiliar territory –...
Re-evaluating the UN effect on Cyprus
If the battle of Lepanto had been won a few months earlier perhaps Famagasta would not have fallen. Its Venetian...
Restricting an unconventional response
Afghanistan & the Troubled Future of Unconventional Warfare Hy S. Rothstein Naval Institute Press, 2006, $34.95 Afghanistan has become an...
Lessons of a foreign affair: Somalia’s influence on the Afghanistan mission
When Grant Dawson surveys the efforts of Canada’s holistic approach to defence, diplomacy and development in Afghanistan, he sees a...
Networking: The growing role for advanced sensors
A mobile network of robotic sensor agents able to provide reconnaissance when a bomb squad responds to a threat phoned...
Long service medals
This is Part II of a series on long service medals. Part I appeared in the August/September issue. The Colonial...
Understanding Haiti
Haiti: Hope for a Fragile State Edited by Yasmine Shamsie and Andrew S. Thompson Wilfrid Laurier University Press, April 2006,...