By Dr. Ann Griffiths, 12 March 2025 Personnel shortages have plagued the RCN for years. It’s not just a problem in Canada, the same problem has affected other navies, including […]
By Dr. Ann Griffiths, 29 October 2024 Recently retired US Navy Admiral James Stavridis wrote an op-ed in the Washington Post. Thequestion he was addressing was: given that drones/uncrewed systems […]
By Jeff G. Gilmour, 5 August 2024 As noted in a recent article in The Economist magazine, the character of warfare is about to be profoundly changed by artificial intelligence (AI).1 In […]
New Naval Weapons: Leaving the RCN Behind? Dr. Ann Griffiths In the past few years, we’ve seen some interesting developments in naval (and land) warfare. The Ukrainian armed forces have […]
By Dr. Ann Griffiths, 8 November 2023 Few days go by without seeing something in naval news sources about uncrewed maritime systems. It’s a rapidly growing field for navies. We’ve […]
By Dr. Ann Griffiths, 8 February 2023 In 1977 Ken Booth outlined roles for naval forces – what has become known as Booth’s Triangle. This ‘triangle’ illustrates the roles of […]
By Dr. Ann Griffiths, 1 September 2022 The US Naval Forces Central Command reported that on the night of 29-30 August it prevented the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy […]
By Dan Middlemiss, 4 June 2022 Chinese technology is certain to be watched with interest by many navies, including Canada’s. One development of particular interest is that China recently launched […]
By Mark Sloan, 28 March 2022 Development and employment of an effective Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW) capability is a technologically challenging and truly all-arms activity, with assets having to be integrated […]
By Dr. Ann Griffiths, 13 September 2021 Technology marches inexorably onward. Resistance is futile! Or is it? It’s interesting to see that the President of the US International Longshoremen’s Association […]
Dan Middlemiss, 10 January 2021 The US Congressional Research Service has released an update on the USN’s plans to accelerate the procurement of Large Unmanned Surface and Undersea Vehicles [1]. […]
Dan Middlemiss, 19 July 2020. Will the Canadian Navy ride the robotic wave of the future? Maybe the future has already arrived. The United States Navy (USN) recently awarded a […]
David Dunlop, 20 February 2020. In light of the impact that global warming is having on Canada’s northern borders and the increased Arctic activity by countries other than Canada, it […]
Major (retired) F. Roy Thomas, MSC, CD, MA (RMC). 13 February 2020. Without anti-drone assets should the RCN become a coastal navy operating under the umbrella of cheaper shore-based anti-drone […]
