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Book Review no. 22 – Boileau on Fraser and Hanington, Operation Medusa: The Furious Battle that Saved Afghanistan from the Taliban

Sep 12, 2018 | Analysis | 0 Comments

Major-General (Ret’d) David Fraser and Brian Hanington, Operation Medusa: The Furious Battle that Saved Afghanistan from the Taliban (Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 2018). ~ ~ ~ Several Canadian soldiers have written excellent accounts describing their wartime...

Book Review No. 21 – Frandsen on Murtagh and Kendall, The History of the RCAF Sentry Dog Program 1963-1972

Sep 6, 2018 | Analysis | 0 Comments

A.J. Murtagh and A.W. Kendall, The History of the RCAF Sentry Dog Program 1963-1972 (Burnstown, ON: Burnstown Publishing House, 2017). [Editor's note: This book can be ordered online, here.] ~ ~ ~ Images of the Avro CF-105 Arrow, or Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF)...

[Davies] Vimy Paper Volume 38 – Irresistible Forces: Long-Term Tectonic Influences on Canada’s National Security

Aug 29, 2018 | Analysis | 0 Comments

Executive Summary This Vimy Paper examines three long-term tectonic influences on Canada’s national security: geography, demographics, and science. These macro-level factors tend not to be understood well or receive much serious consideration in the...

Law: The Prague Spring Half a Century On

Aug 23, 2018 | Analysis | 0 Comments

(Photo from the Russian newspaper Kommersant on the fiftieth anniversary of the Warsaw Pact's invasion of Czechoslovakia.) ~ ~ ~ For four months in 1968, I was an intern in Prague, the capital of the erstwhile Czechoslovakia, a city of incredible beauty and grace...

Book Review No. 20 – Ricketts on Wakelam, Cold War Fighters – Canadian Aircraft Procurement, 1945-54

Aug 15, 2018 | Analysis | 1 Comment

Randall Wakelam, Cold War Fighters – Canadian Aircraft Procurement, 1945-54 (Canadian Studies in Military History: UBC Press in association with the Canadian War Museum, 2011). ~ ~ ~ As the current Canadian government travels the torturous path of replacing our...

Law: Towards Yalta Two

Aug 9, 2018 | Analysis | 0 Comments

The CDA Institute is pleased to repost David Law's blog, originally published here on 1 August 2018, on our own site. Whatever happens in Ukraine, which he argues may be a victim of a "deal" between Trump and Putin, or a tripartite arrangement involving those two and...

Book Review No. 19 – Norris of Stewart, Strangers with Memories: The United States and Canada from Free Trade to Baghdad

Aug 8, 2018 | Analysis | 0 Comments

John Stewart, Strangers with Memories: The United States and Canada from Free Trade to Baghdad (Montreal & Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2017). ~ ~ ~ In May 1990, a peculiar ad in an Ottawa newspaper called for a self-starting individual to analyze trade...

Book Review No. 18 – Martyn of Cusumano and Corbe, eds., A Civil-Military Response to Hybrid Threats

Aug 2, 2018 | Analysis | 0 Comments

Eugenio Cusumano and Marian Corbe, eds., A Civil-Military Response to Hybrid Threats (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018). ~ ~ ~ This collection of essays provides military and civilian readership with a broad-ranging overview of the role played by civil-military cooperation...

CDA Institute Analysis: A Response by Patrick Dennis to Reviews of Reluctant Warriors: Canadian Conscripts and the Great War

Jul 25, 2018 | Analysis | 0 Comments

The CDA Institute has now posted three reviews of my book, Reluctant Warriors: Canadian Conscripts and the Great War (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2017) – the first by Dr. Andrew Theobald this past March, and the second and third by Michel Gravel and Keith...