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, assessing, and disseminating intelligence and information related to the respective maritime areas and internal waterways of, and the maritime approaches […]
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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 examine the US military after the dust has settled (for now) on COVID-19. They argue that “There are at least […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 agree to rules of behaviour to avoid miscalculations and escalations. An agreement could be similar to the Incidents at Sea Agreement signed […]
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 Canadians, human rights advocates and child protection experts, Omar continued to languish in prison cell after prison cell. Yesterday, the […]