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Book Review No. 16 – Maxwell of Dennis, Reluctant Warriors

Jul 12, 2018 | Analysis | 0 Comments

Patrick Dennis, Reluctant Warriors – Canadian Conscripts and the Great War (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2017). ~ ~ ~ Editor’s Note – This is the third (and last) review of Reluctant Warriors; the first, by Andrew Theobald, can be found here, and the second, by Michel...

Law: NATO Defence Spending in Perspective

Jul 10, 2018 | Analysis | 1 Comment

President Trump’s letter to a number of NATO allies in the lead-up to the Alliance Summit on 11-12 July, warning them that America is running out of patience as regards their failure to increase their defence spending, is a cheap shot, but a shot nonetheless. It needs...

Book Review No. 15 – Gravel of Dennis, Reluctant Warriors

Jul 4, 2018 | Analysis | 0 Comments

Patrick Dennis, Reluctant Warriors – Canadian Conscripts and the Great War (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2017). ~~~ Editor's Note - This is the second review of Reluctant Warriors; the first, by Andrew Theobald, can be found here. In this work, Patrick Dennis tells, for the...

Book Review No. 14 – Burtch of Palmer, Becoming the Story: War Correspondents Since 9/11

Jul 4, 2018 | Analysis | 0 Comments

Lindsay Palmer, Becoming the Story: War Correspondents Since 9/11 (Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2018). ~~~ In 2012, journalist Marie Colvin was killed while covering the then one-year-old Syrian civil war for the Sunday Times. Colvin had smuggled herself...

Davies: Bait-and-Switch – The Canadian Approach to its Commitment on Defence Spending

Jul 3, 2018 | Analysis, Events | 3 Comments

President Trump’s recent letter to Canada’s Prime Minister urging him to meet this country’s stated commitment to move towards spending 2% of GDP on defence was predictably met by comments from a government spokesperson noting that Canada continues to be among the...

Overton: Looking for Success from the Canadian deployment to MINUSMA? Canadians Should be Looking Towards the United Nations Itself, not Mali

Jun 28, 2018 | Analysis | 0 Comments

Canadian Armed Forces members arrive in Gao to start the preparations. DND IS03-2018-0015-007 Canadian troops are deploying to Mali for the UN MINUSMA mission, where they will assume the responsibility for the protected medical aerial evacuation of mission...

Law: My Takeaway from the Singapore Summit

Jun 18, 2018 | Analysis | 0 Comments

~ ~ ~ The Singapore Summit has left me with three major conclusions. First and foremost, Trump showed himself to be a lousy negotiator. Somebody once observed that if you really want a deal badly, you get a really bad deal. And so it has been with President Trump and...

CDA Institute: ON TRACK (Spring 2018)

Jun 14, 2018 | Analysis | 0 Comments

From the editor I am pleased to introduce the first issue of ON TRACK for 2018, consisting of a mix of Canadian-centric and internationally focused articles. Nous commençons par une réflexion sur le soft power européen selon le Dr Michael Lambert...

Book Review No. 13 – Finzi of Nuri, Being Kurdish in a Hostile World

Jun 13, 2018 | Analysis | 0 Comments

Ayub Nuri, Being Kurdish in a Hostile World (Regina: University of Regina Press, 2017). ~ ~ ~ My only expectation going into Ayub Nuri’s Being Kurdish in a Hostile World was that I was going to learn more about the Kurdish people and their long struggle for...