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Towards a Diverse and Inclusive Canadian Military: The Lessons from Gender Integration in the CF in the 1990s
Photo Credit: The Canadian Press This is the first in a new series of blog entries exploring the work of emerging graduate students examining Canada’s armed forces and defence and security issues. In “Towards a Diverse and Inclusive Canadian Military,” Queen’s...
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Book Review 24-North American Strategic Defense in the 21st Century
Christian Leuprecht, Joel J. Sokolsky, Thomas Hughes, Eds., North American Strategic Defense in the 21st Century: Security and Sovereignty in an Uncertain World (Springer Press, 2018). Reviewed by J. Craig Stone, CD, PhD As Canada implements their new defence policy,...
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Book Review 23-Militarised Responses to Transnational Organised Crime: The War on Crime
Tuesday Reitano, Lucia Bird Ruiz-Benitez de Lugo and Sasha Jesperson, Militarised Responses to Transnational Organised Crime: The War on Crime (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017). Reviewed by: Adam Finzi When I first decided to read Militarised Responses to Transnational...
read moreCrisis in Venezuela–David M. Law
CDA Institute frequent contributor, David M. Law, contributes a timely article, "The Crisis in and Around Venezuela-and what might be done about it." Throughout the piece, Law reviews the current situation, outlines the implications of various courses of action and...
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Book Review no. 22 – Boileau on Fraser and Hanington, Operation Medusa: The Furious Battle that Saved Afghanistan from the Taliban
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...
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Book Review No. 21 – Frandsen on Murtagh and Kendall, The History of the RCAF Sentry Dog Program 1963-1972
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)...
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[Davies] Vimy Paper Volume 38 – Irresistible Forces: Long-Term Tectonic Influences on Canada’s National Security
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...
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Law: The Prague Spring Half a Century On
(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...
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Book Review No. 20 – Ricketts on Wakelam, Cold War Fighters – Canadian Aircraft Procurement, 1945-54
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...
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