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 […]
In recent months there have been several close encounters between the US Navy and Iranian Navy vessels in the Gulf. These tense encounters point to the need for Iran and the United States to […]
Omar Khadr is free at last on bail. The treatment of Omar Khadr as a terrorist and not as a child soldier was wrong. Despite the efforts of many concerned […]
