Originally published on Canadian American Strategic Review October 2014 When the new Polar class icebreaker, CCGS John G. Diefenbaker, enters service early next decade the Canadian Coast Guard (CCG) will be equipped with a state of the art platform for…
Now a moot point. The two Mistral-class have been sold to Egypt. The fate of the two Mistral-class ships built for Russia remains up in the air. Potential buyers have included Canada, NATO, China and even the US. There has…
One of the rallying cries of Conservatives has been the 2007 characterization of the Chretien/Martin Prime Ministerial years as a “Decade of Darkness” by General Rick Hillier. Defence spending lost to pragmatism and ideology in the effort to trim the…
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