By Colonel (Ret’d) John L. Orr, 5 November 2025 The Canadian Maritime Security Network (CNSM) held a panel discussion – “Alliances and Partnerships in Shifting Geopolitical Landscapes” – at Saint […]
By Jeff G. Gilmour, 25 September 2025 In this article, I have tried to identify what, in my opinion, are three significant geographic areas in NATO that are potential weak […]
By Jeff G. Gilmour, 22 March 2024 With permanent members of the Security Council having exclusive power of veto, the United Nations has in reality become a lame duck. As […]
By Jeff G. Gilmour, 10 February 2024 A recent article by Robert Fife and Steven Chase – “China gains major Arctic foothold as Russia turns to Beijing more, report finds” […]
By Dan Middlemiss, 14 March 2023 Addressing a major defence conference last week, retired Vice-Admiral Mark Norman decried the failure of all Canadians to take their own defence seriously. Here […]
By David Dunlop, 9 January 2023 A few months ago, the new French Ambassador to Canada, Michel Miraillet, made some comments that are interesting — and frank (and which he said represented […]
By Les Mader, 30 November 2022 The major impact of Canada-s new Indo-Pacific Strategy on the RCN would seem to me to be the increase in yearly frigate deployments to […]
By Brian Bertosa, 22 July 2022 Another “Dire Threat to Western Democracy”? We don’t have enough of them as it is? And from such a clear and present . . […]
By Dr. Julian Spencer-Churchill, 22 May 2022 The April 2022 security agreement between the Solomon Islands and China poses an obvious danger to Western democracy. The risk of a deployment […]
By David Dunlop, 18 May 2022 (Note that I am expressing my opinion and this does not represent the opinion of CNR!) Canada’s recent unwavering support for Ukraine shows that […]
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. Dan Middlemiss, 16 December 2021 Over the past decade or so, the international geostrategic environment has undergone a major seismic shift for the first time since the end […]
Andrea Charron, 01 June 2020. When the NORAD Agreement was signed in perpetuity in 2006, the command gained a third mission: maritime warning. NORAD’s maritime warning mission: consists of processing, […]
Moderator, 04 May 2020 In an article published by War on the Rocks, entitled “Five Ways the US Military will Change after the Pandemic,” authors David Barno and Nora Bensahel […]
Joe Varner, 03 April 2020. Chinese strategists have dreamed of an asymmetric method to disable the US aircraft carrier for decades.[1] Now they have succeeded beyond their wildest dreams but […]
Moderator, 02 April 2020. What is the connection, if any, between national security and pandemics? If asked even a few months ago, we probably wouldn’t have put pandemics at the […]
In our fascination with China and its growing global power and influence, we tend to forget about the other Asian giant – India. It’s the dominant power in South Asia […]
Whether this can be blamed on the Trump administration is an open question, but the geopolitical pattern is definitely changing this year. Turkey and Saudi Arabia have both announced that […]
Who cares about the fight between Saudi Arabia and Qatar? Why should we care about what seems like a small difference of opinion among former friends? Well, there are a […]
Military forces increasingly rely on networked information to function effectively. Now we talk about information warfare. This means taking both defensive actions to protect your information and the systems that […]
