* Moderator's Note: This commentary was published on Monday, 31 May, as RSIS Commentaries 57/2010. The commentary is reprinted here with the permission of Mushahid Ali, Senior Fellow, RSIS. My thanks to CFPS Research Fellow Dr. Stan Weeks for bringing this article to my attention. “Rethinking Littoral Warfare” by Ong […]
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Airedale presents an argument heard all too often in Canada, not just in academic common rooms or their virtual equivalents such as this forum, where there is a certain expectation to set up false dichotomies for the purpose of debate, but also in places of political and military power where […]
Professor Edna Keeble's recommendation for acquiring a "strike capability for the Navy (e.g. TLAM - Tomahawk Land Attack Missile)" is the same as that made by Professor Elinor Sloan in her book Security and Defence in the Terrorist Era: Canada and North America (McGill-Queens University Press, 2005, pp 114-115). Sloan […]
The Canadian government's commitment of ground forces in Afghanistan in offensive operations against the Taliban arguably represents a new willingness of the government to consider the employment/deployment of the Canadian military to shape proactively portions of the world landscape as opposed to waiting for the requirement to act in a […]