The government has two major projects for the Canadian Forces coming up in the near future – the Canadian Surface Combatants (CSC) and the replacement fighter jets. Both are big ticket items. Budget plans for this year have been derailed as the government spends billions to address the fallout from […]
COVID-19
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CNR Fan, 29 October 2020. In accordance with CBC News, dozens of workers at the Irving Halifax Shipyard refused work this week after a contractor from Quebec came in last week and did not self-isolate. Linda MacNeil, Atlantic regional director for UNIFOR, the union representing workers at Irving, blames Irving: […]
Procrustes, 16 May 2020 As Canada contemplates some gradual easing of the many regulations imposed on virtually every sector of the national economy, economists and other public policy experts are in general agreement that paying for the current emergency measures and then finding money to help kick-start the locked down […]
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 […]
Dr. Ann Griffiths, 23 April 2020. There is a burgeoning discussion about unwinding the measures that have shut down the economies of countries around the world in the fight against coronavirus COVID-19. It has become increasingly clear that opening up the economy will be much more difficult than closing it […]
David Dunlop, 22 April 2020 Hospital ships are excellent vehicles of international policy, diplomacy and humanitarian efforts. They can provide humanitarian assistance during disasters, advanced medical treatment, services and on-board medical training. These ships are internationally protected in accordance with Protocol 1 of the Geneva Conventions of 1949. In a […]
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 […]
Dr. Ann Griffiths, 31 March 2020. You would have to be living in a cave not to have noticed that we’re currently facing a situation that hasn’t been seen since the flu epidemic following the First World War. Around the world people are self-isolating and social distancing is the flavour […]