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Recent News
Vimy Paper No. 37 – The Night That Shook A Nation: The 2016 Turkish Military Coup – What Happened and Why it Failed
Executive summary Turkey has been a vital member of NATO since 1952 and remains the anchor of NATO’s southeastern flank. What happens there is important. And during the late evening hours of 15 July 2016, a group of senior military officers attempted, but...
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Law: What if (almost) all the experts on the Korean Question have got it wrong?
There are a half-dozen or so dimensions of the Korean Question on which I think many experts have gotten it seriously wrong. Here is my short list of their misunderstandings - and the myths that have been propagated in the process. One myth revolves around the...
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Book Review No. 11 – Finzi of Howard-Hassman, State Food Crimes
Rhoda E. Howard-Hassman, State Food Crimes (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016). ~ ~ ~ Reading State Food Crimes takes me back to my days as a graduate student studying under professor Rhoda E. Howard-Hassman and learning about the complex interplay between...
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An Afternoon with Our Veterans: Discussing Issues Affecting Veterans Today
On 22 March 2018, we had the pleasure of attending a forum hosted by the Friends of the Canadian War Museum that discussed perspectives on “Today’s Veteran” as explored through three informative presentations. Dr. Andrew Burtch, the Canadian War Museum’s post-1945...
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Book Review No. 10 – Roy of Nossal, Charlie Foxtrot: Fixing Defence Procurement in Canada
Kim Richard Nossal, Charlie Foxtrot: Fixing Defence Procurement in Canada (Toronto: Dundurn, 2016). ~ ~ ~ The fundamental purpose of all equipment procurement is to ensure national armed forces have the necessary capabilities to carry out the missions assigned to them...
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Book Review No. 9 – Martyn of Geist, ed., Law, Privacy, and Surveillance in the Post-Snowden Era
Michael Geist, ed., Law, Privacy, and Surveillance in the Post-Snowden Era (Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, 2015). ~ ~ ~ Edward Snowden came to global prominence in 2013 for having stolen classified information from the U.S. National Security Agency. The material,...
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Book Review No. 8 – Roy of Charters, Whose Mission, Whose Orders? British Civil-Military Command and Control in Northern Ireland, 1968-1974
David A. Charters, Whose Mission, Whose Orders? British Civil-Military Command and Control in Northern Ireland, 1968-1974 (Montreal & Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2017). ~ ~ ~ David A. Charters, a retired professor of military history at the University...
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Farewell to our Interns!
Now that the academic semester has more or less finished, the CDA Institute is saying goodbye to its two interns - Eva Luc and Hannah Delaney - as they carry on with their respective programs at Carleton University. While at the Institute, both did a stellar job ......
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Roundtable Summary Report – Turkey’s Security Challenge within its Neighbourhood: Operation Olive Branch
The CDA Institute was delighted to host Talip Küçükcan, Turkish Member of Parliament, and Resul Serdar Atas of TRT Al Arabia for a roundtable on Operation Olive Branch and Turkey's recent actions in the Middle East and Syria. The discussion centred on three main...
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November 2, 2018
Canadian War Museum
Ottawa, Ontario
February 12-13, 2019
Fairmont Chateau Laurier
Ottawa, Ontario
