By Procrustes, 17 March 2022 Every so often, Canada’s political mis-leaders reveal, in their quaintly innocent, progressive way, just how naive they are about world affairs and about the role […]
By Dr. Dan Middlemiss, 14 March 2022 Canada’s Parliamentary Budget Officer (PBO) just released a 2022 update on DND’s planned spending under Canada’s current defence policy – Strong, Secure, Engaged […]
By Garry Noble, 12 March 2022 When the news release was published in September 2019 that the Navy would acquire 5 connectors, did anyone think it would be 26 months […]
By Dan Middlemiss, 7 March 2022 From the pervasive silence in this Forum about the Russian attack on the people and state of Ukraine, I wonder how many, like myself, […]
Ted Barnes, 5 March 2022 The government and RCN just released a new CSC graphic confirming 24 VLS vice 32 originally planned and the addition of the new mast accommodating […]
By David Dunlop, 4 March 2022 The Arctic Council has been heralded as a body that emphasized cooperation in the Arctic. However, Canada, along with six other Arctic member countries […]
Moderator, 4 March 2022 There have been a number of recent articles discussing what Canada could contribute to assist Ukraine and to the defence of the West in general. The […]
By Dr. Ann Griffiths, 25 February 2022 The Chief of Defence Staff, General Wayne Eyre, sent a message to Canadian Armed Forces members on 24 February. The message states: For […]
By Dr. Ann Griffiths, 20 February 2022 The Naval Association of Canada has published a second Briefing Note on the effects of the current pandemic on three maritime sectors. This […]
CNR Fan, 17 February 2022 Russia claims that it has captured secret equipment from a US Navy Virginia-class nuclear submarine that Russia claims was operating within its territorial waters off the Pacific […]
By Dr. Ann Griffiths, 16 February 2022 In a report released on 15 February 2022, the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), in conjunction with other US and international […]
By Dr. Ann Griffiths, 11 February 2022 We’ve all seen depictions of the D-Day landings in France in the Second World War. These landings provide a classic example of how […]
By Dr. Ann Griffiths, 3 February 2022 In the Ottawa Citizen today, David Pugliese writes about an Australian Defence Department study that was published in November. It was examining the […]
CNR Fan, 25 January 2022. According to CBS News, NATO kicked off a naval exercise Monday with an American carrier strike group along with forces from other NATO allies practicing […]
By David Dunlop, 22 January 2022 Here is an interesting article recently published by Asian News Institute (ANI) commenting on the speed of the Peoples Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) build-up […]
By David Dunlop, 18 January 2022 The Lockheed Martin Canada web page is showing a top-view of the CSC design (seen above). Recent computer graphics of the CSC frigate on the […]
By David Dunlop, 15 January 2022 On 14 January, the Department of National Defence announced that Canada has just awarded the contract to begin work on the land-based testing facility […]
By Roderick Steckhahn, 14 January 2022 A Mistral-class ship would assert the RCN’s capability to perform amphibious assaults, withdrawals, demonstrations and raids. This would allow it to further integrate into […]
By Dr. Ann Griffiths, 11 January 2022 Here we are in 2022, and now suffering through the fifth wave of the never-ending pandemic. But we take heart that the end […]
By Roger Cyr, OMM, CD, 11 January 2022 The federal government is planning to build 15 new frigates, the British Type 26. This is good news since the navy estimates […]
