By CNR, 18 August 2023 The CNR Editorial Board has lost one of its members. Senator Hugh Segal passed away last week in Kingston. Hugh had been an energetic and […]
By David Dunlop, 18 August 2023 As most people know, MP Bill Blair has just been given the Minister of National Defence Portfolio from PM Trudeau. Peter MacKay, a former […]
By Dan Middlemiss, 24 April 2023 As it promised, the Australian government has released its much anticipated Defence Strategic Review (https://www.defence.gov.au/about/reviews-inquiries/defence-strategic-review). The report paints a sobering assessment of the current […]
By Dan Middlemiss, 19 August 2022 The United Kingdom published its new National Maritime Security Strategy (NMSS) on 15 August 2022. The full report can be found at: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/national-maritime-security-strategy The […]
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 Vice-Admiral (Ret’d) Nigel Brodeur, 22 December 2021[1] Note: This paper was written in 2010 but I am deeply concerned in 2021 that the government is continuing to disregard many […]
Mark Sloan, 25 March 2021 The UK Government has now published The Integrated Review of Security, Defence, Development and Foreign Policy (Integrated Review), and the Defence Command Paper “Defence in […]
The Standing Senate Committee on National Security and Defence has released a new report, Reinvesting in the Canadian Armed Forces: A Plan for the Future. This follows the report that […]
The news is full of images from the wildfires in northern Alberta. Fort McMurray is especially hard-hit, but there are also many other fires throughout the Prairie Provinces and further […]
As Yogi used to say, ‘Deja vu all over again!’ As in the late 1980s, the strategic importance of the Arctic rises to near the top of our national concerns. […]
Much of this has been said before over several decades but nobody seems to be listening. And yet another reference to the sound logic of the Australian model; maybe our […]
This article raises some good points that make one wonder how effective are Canadian countermeasures. The Diplomat: Japan’s Achilles Heel: Cybersecurity
Sajjan shies away from endorsing controversial 2011 Leslie Report I was very disappointed to see that the announced Defence Policy Review was barely hours old and already needless speculation has […]
This is one opinion on the future trends in defence policy but the article is food for serious thought. For instance, can a defence policy review be conducted without a […]
As Canada readies for a new defence review, Australia has just released its long-awaited Defence White Paper, along with an Integrated Investment Program as well as a Defence Industry Policy […]
More good food for thought and rebuttal as part of the ongoing public component of the new defence review. Such matters are becoming too important and too complex to be […]
Last week the Defence Minister gave a detailed outline to Embassy Magazine on the upcoming defence review. This, and the earlier interview by John Iveson, are starting to provide an […]
As the 2016 Defence Review gets underway there have been many questions as to how the new Liberal government would approach creating their promised “leaner, more agile” military. Thankfully, suggestions […]
Everything that Peter Haydon says in his article on the “Canadian Naval Task Group” is accurate. The task group has been fundamental to our past success and it will likely […]
