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INF Treaty: A Cold War Relic Unsuited to Today’s Strategic Reality

Feb 7, 2019 | Analysis | 0 comments

the forum Independent views on defence and security INF Treaty: A Cold War Relic Unsuited to Today’s Strategic Reality By Joe Varner Despite the hysteria from arms control advocates, the Trump Administration’s announced planned withdrawal from the 1987 Intermediate...

Book Review: The Great War: From History to Modern Memory

Feb 6, 2019 | Analysis | 0 comments

Kellen Kurschinski, Steve Marti, Alicia Robinet, Matt Symes, and Jonathan F. Vance, editors. The Great War: From Memory to History. Waterloo: Wilfred Laurier University Press, 2015. Pp. 427. Reviewed by Richard Roy This book is a collection of scholarly...

Book Review: Too Critical to Fail

Feb 1, 2019 | Analysis | 0 comments

Review of Kevin Quigley, Ben Bisset, and Bryan Mills, Too Critical to Fail: How Canada Manages Threats to Critical Infrastructure. (McGill-Queen’s University Press, Montreal and Ottawa, 2017), Reviewed by Dr. Robert Martyn. The book opens with a dedication to...

Defending Democracy Event Summary

Jan 30, 2019 | Analysis, Roundtable and Event Summaries | 0 comments

Over the past decade, the cyber security of elections and democratic institutions has become a critical issue both at home and globally. Canadian elections have proved to be relatively robust so far. Be that as it may, in 2017 Canada’s Communications Security...

Building Security and Defence in the Canadian Economy and Small Wars, Big Data Event Summary

Jan 28, 2019 | Analysis, Roundtable and Event Summaries | 0 comments

The CDA Institute, in collaboration with the 13th Defence and Security Economists Workshop, hosted two panel discussions on the themes of Building Security and Defence in the Canadian Economy and a discussion of the book Small Wars, Big Data, published by Princeton...

Book Review: Small Wars, Big Data

Jan 17, 2019 | Analysis | 0 comments

Small Wars, Big Data: The Information Revolution in Modern Conflict Eli Berman, Joseph H. Felter and Jacob N. Shapiro, Small Wars, Big Data: The Information Revolution in Modern Conflict. (Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 2018) Reviewed by Charles Davies...