RCAF Commander LGen Meinzinger on Space Capabilities, Innovation in the RCAF, and Pandemic-era Readiness
This is an edited transcript of a discussion that took place January 28, 2021 between the CDA Institute and LGen Al Meinzinger Q: What challenges has the COVID-19 pandemic presented for RCAF readiness? How is the RCAF adapting to these challenges? A: Over the past 12...
ANALYSIS: The Canadian Armed Forces and the COVID19 Pandemic: Entrenching the Military as Canada’s De Facto Emergency Management Organization
The Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) has played a sizable and vital role in Canada’s pandemic efforts. COVID19 represents the most extensive and intensive involvement of CAF in a domestic emergency in living memory, but this is a continuation, and acceleration, of a...
Statement of the Conference of Defence Associations and the CDA Institute on recent allegations of sexual misconduct in the Canadian Armed Forces
February 23, 2021 Nothing is more important to the Canadian Armed Forces than the confidence of Canadians and the trust of the rank and file in their leadership. The institution’s leaders owe their sailors, soldiers, aviators, and the Canadian public the highest...
National Security and Domestic Vaccine Supply: Lessons from the Munitions Supply Program
By Charles Davies, Fellow with the CDA Institute The COVID-19 pandemic has again shown that the concept of national security has broad sweep and needs far more attention from Canadian governments. The neutering of the Global Public Health Intelligence Network only...
ANDREA THOMPSON: A NEW, NEW START? The future of the U.S. and Russia’s nuclear arms reduction treaty
Q: For our readers that may not know what we're talking about today — can you explain what the New START Treaty is and how it works? A: Absolutely, and to start off, I want to thank the CDA Institute for the opportunity. As we were talking about a little bit ago, the...
Danielle C. Tarraf: The Digital Battlefield: Unpacking the Military Adoption of AI
What developments do you expect to see on digital battlefields in the near future? I like to remind people that AI encompasses many different technologies. What constitutes AI has changed since the term was first coined in the Dartmouth workshop in 1956. AI has been a...
Stephen M. Walt: The Post-Pandemic International Order
Stephen M. Walt is the Robert and Renee Belfer Professor of International Affairs. He previously taught at Princeton University and the University of Chicago, where he served as Master of the Social Science Collegiate Division and Deputy Dean of Social Sciences. He...
Eyck Freymann: Why Conventional Wisdom on China’s Belt & Road is Wrong
What does conventional wisdom say about OBOR and why is it wrong? Conventional wisdom is that OBOR is primarily an infrastructure, development finance, or connectivity initiative, and should be evaluated on those terms. I think that's only half-right, at best. The...
