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3 days ago · "The next big war, it'll be a series. It will be a big regional war, or a series of regional wars, that Canada will be drawn into as a Western ally. ... 2022. (Master Sailor Dan Bard, Canadian ...
3 days ago · The next big war, it'll be a series. It will be a big regional war, or a series of regional wars, that Canada will be drawn into as a Western ally. So we better have our plans in place, including ...
Jan 30, 2024 · These warnings are being driven in part by Russia's stated plans to put defence and munitions production on a war footing — something western nations, and Canada in particular, have struggled...
Feb 22, 2024 · Canada’s military is short 16,000 troops, its branches are operating below readiness thresholds half the time and its budget is being cut as wars erupt worldwide.
- National Styles of Warfare
- Canadian Isolation and Its ‘Way of War’
- Peacekeeping Distrust
- Dangerous Assumption
The idea that nations have particular approaches to war was introduced by British military historian Basil Liddell Hart in his 1932 book The British Way of Warin which he claimed that sea power was the United Kingdom’s natural strategy. Surrounded by oceans, Britain could take advantage of its navy to both ward off any potential attack as well as c...
Canada’s geographic isolation on the North American continent and friendly relations with the United States might seem to render a way of war entirely unnecessary. In fact, Canadian defence policy has been focused on just three generic priorities since a 1964 white paperon defence: defending Canada, co-operation on North American defence and contri...
Peacekeeping, after all, is reliant on great powers agreeing within the United Nations Security Council. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky dramatically illustrated the weakness of this arrangement in his recent address to the council: Russia cynically uses “peacekeepers” in many locations to enforce its own strategic interests, and views the U...
In a great power world, this is a dangerous assumption that may later be paid for in Canadian blood and treasure. Rather than simply throwing money at our crumbling military, we need to carefully consider Canada’s strategy in this hostile new world, and build it to reflect that approach. In strategy, geography matters. Canada is isolated, which has...
Feb 29, 2024 · Is Canada prepared? Canada's Department of National Defence outlined the issue in its 2022-23 Departmental Results Report, which was released in December.
Apr 8, 2024 · Two years after being ordered on an urgent basis, a new defence policy for Canada that promises to bolster the military's surveillance and combat capabilities in the Arctic was unveiled Monday.
