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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...
Canadian Forces get a strategic lift
“Good morning, Team C-17! Or should I say bonjour?” It is early April...
The lessons of modern stability campaigns
With more than a decade of stability campaigns under its belt, it may seem rhetorical for the Canadian Forces to...
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...