The CDAI has just published its “Strategic Outlook for Canada 2018". In this report, authors look 10 years into the future to assess the strategic concerns and their relevance to Canada. The report includes the following chapters: “Canada’s Strategic Outlook” by Richard Nossal; “The Indo-Pacific Region in Flux,” by James […]
New Research in Maritime Security
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David Griffiths has a chapter in an upcoming report called Arab Politics Beyond the Uprisings. The chapter is entitled “Oceans of Opportunity: Maritime Dimensions of Security in the Arab World,” and it takes a look at the many ways that focusing on maritime considerations can help contribute to peace and […]
September 08 2016. DRDC published a very interesting paper by Ben Lombardi in May 2016 -- "The Future Maritime Operating Environment and the Role of Naval Power." The author concludes that maritime issues will be increasingly prominent in the 21st century, far more so than the last decades of the […]
Major change is coming to the Royal Canadian Navy. In just a few months, Irving Shipbuilding will begin construction of the first vessel in the Combat Ship Program under the National Shipbuilding and Procurement Strategy. The Arctic/Offshore Patrol Ship (AOPS), to be known as the DeWolf-class, will add many new […]
Background: After a very successful and well-attended (75 attendees) first NSPS Workshop entitled “Charting the Course” on 6 June 2014, which included an update on the progress of the NSPS and a look forward at the future classes of Royal Canadian Navy ships, Dalhousie’s Centre for Foreign Policy Studies (CFPS) […]
The following announcement was sent out by the Conference of Defence Associations Institute: Ottawa, 11 June 2014 - The Conference of Defence Associations Institute is pleased to release Vimy Paper 19: "The Growing Gap Between Defence Ends and Means: The Disconnect between the Canada First Defence Strategy and the Current […]
In March 2011, Indian naval forces operating in the Arabian Sea captured the Mozambique-flagged fishing vessel Vega 5. Somali pirates had kidnapped the trawler’s original crew several months earlier. They subsequently refurbished the stolen craft into an operationally significant ‘mothership’. Of the 61 marauders who were arrested during the Indian […]
The Child Soldiers Initiative, directed by Dr. Shelly Whitman at Dalhousie University, has released a groundbreaking report entitled Children and Youth in Marine Piracy: Causes, Consequences and the Way Forward. The report can be downloaded from their website under Publications or by going directly to the document here. The report […]