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 not by deliberate action.USS Theodore Roosevelt is tied up at Guam evacuating the crew to deal with a COVID-19 outbreak […]
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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 top of the list of national security threats. Indeed, at a conference on security and defence held in Ottawa in […]
[FAKE NEWS] Canada’s Two New Humanitarian Aid Ships Enter Service! Imagine that the Canadian government has just welcomed two humanitarian assistance/disaster relief ships to the Canadian fleet. MV Norman Bethune with her home port on Canada’s East Coast has been tasked with humanitarian aid to the Caribbean, Eastern Mexico, eastern […]
The world’s climate is changing. Without embarking on arguments about who or what is to blame, the point is that there is a problem facing Earth. In 2016 there were around 1,900 meteorological, hydrological or climatological loss events – 130 of those were classified as severe or very severe. In […]
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 and a country with nuclear weapons, a vast population and a potentially vast economy if it could get itself organized. […]
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 they are purchasing Russian S-400 air defence systems. Turkey is a member of NATO so this is awkward for alliance […]
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 few reasons to care. Aside from concern that this is yet another destabilizing factor in the region, and that the […]
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 collect and disseminate it, and offensive actions to disrupt and deny the information of your enemies. What are navies doing […]
How to Sink the Hermit Kingdom: A Better Approach to Maritime Sanctions Against North Korea by Robert Huish The full essay will appear in the summer issue of CNR, coming soon. North Korea, a country famous for human rights abuses and bellicose threats of nuclear war, is a threat to […]
Dr Anthony Bergin, a senior research fellow at the ANU National Security College, and senior analyst at the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI), wrote a paper entitled “Protecting Crowded Places from Terror: Australia Needs to Step up its Security Efforts to Make Future Events Safer,” which was published by the […]