By Moderator, 6 March 2026 There’s an interesting article by CNR Editorial Board member Kate E. Todd. It’s called: “Maritime Security in 2026: From Competition to Contestation,” published by the […]
By Ted Barnes, 18 February 2026 Major (Ret’d) Les Mader’s ‘tripwire corvette’ proposal, as described in the recent issue of Canadian Naval Review, confuses political grievance with practical naval strategy. […]
By Jeff G. Gilmour, 11 January 2026 In December 2025, President Trump announced that two new battleships were to be built in the United States – what he’s calling the […]
By Ted Barnes, 15 December 2025 Foreign Minister Anita Anand was in Brussels recently sounding the alarm about something naval planners have known for years: the Arctic is no longer […]
By Ted Barnes, 13 July 2025 Over the past few years, we’ve watched the evolution of what started as a modest Kingston-class Replacement turn into something far more ambitious. First […]
By Dan Middlemiss, 3 July 2025 There has been a flurry of interest of late in the prospect of the navy acquiring corvette-sized warships to augment the currently planned RCN […]
By Ted Barnes, 4 June 2025 As the Royal Canadian Navy (RCN) confronts a restructuring of its future fleet, the Kingston-class Maritime Coastal Defence Vessels (MCDVs) are facing early decommissioning. […]
By Dr. Ann Griffiths, 19 May 2025 David Joseph McGuinty is now the Minister of National Defence. He is a lawyer and has served as the member of Parliament for […]
By Dr. Ann Griffiths, 10 February 2025 Here is an excerpt from an interview published in Vol. 20, No. 3. For free access to the full interview in the final […]
By David Morse, 2 February 2025 In the past week, The Naval Association of Canada posted this update by Captain (N) Drew Graham, the Director of Naval Requirements. The video […]
By Moderator, 8 November 2024 As the saga to build the Canadian Surface Combatants/River-class destroyers continues, the Halifax-class frigates will remain the Royal Canadian Navy’s workhorses for a few more […]
By Dr. Ann Griffiths, 29 October 2024 Recently retired US Navy Admiral James Stavridis wrote an op-ed in the Washington Post. Thequestion he was addressing was: given that drones/uncrewed systems […]
By Kate E. Todd, 20 September 2024. On September 10, 2024, OSI Maritime announced that is has been awarded a contract by Innovation, Science, and Economic Development Canada to begin […]
By Moderator, 11 September 2024 It’s easy to get discouraged about the RCN. There are continuing personnel shortages, it takes forever to get new ships, and meanwhile the existing ships […]
By Dan Middlemiss, 26 August 2024 Consider the following: “…To further set the stage, we all recognize the death spiral that the Navy is in. As we try to make […]
By Mikael Perron, 24 July 2024 In terms of organisation, how could the Vigilance-class fit the RCN? First, the Kingston-class was originally supposed to be operated by the Naval Reserve […]
By Mikael Perron, 22 July 2024 Following my previous post about the Vigilance-class, let’s now take a closer look at Flight II. It is quite interesting that there is such […]
By Mikael Perron, 20 July 2024 There were a lot of comments on the post concerning the Vigilance-class design. There were legitimate concerns and questions that remain unanswered. In the […]
By Ted Barnes, 17 March 2024 It was recently noted in the media that the CAF is in a death spiral. While I don’t share that exact sediment there is […]
New Naval Weapons: Leaving the RCN Behind? Dr. Ann Griffiths In the past few years, we’ve seen some interesting developments in naval (and land) warfare. The Ukrainian armed forces have […]
