February 25, 2013
February 25, 2013 – In case you missed it, MLI’s Brian Lee Crowley was on CBC’s Cross Country Checkup yesterday to discuss if the Armed Forces should take a Canada-first approach to buying military equipment. The interview follows Crowley’s latest column in The Globe and Mail, “Military procurement is about protection not politics.” Click here ...
February 21, 2013
February 21, 2013 – In a new regular column for The Globe and Mail, MLI Managing Director Brian Lee Crowley writes about the newly-released Jenkins Report, an Ottawa-commissioned inquiry on how to get more value for the Canadian economy out of defence procurement. According to Crowley, “The way we buy equipment for our military is ...
February 20, 2013
February 20, 2013 – Alex Wilner and Marco Wyss discuss the upside of Franco-African relations in Embassy. The op-ed is published below. Wyss and Wilner are Senior Researchers at the Center for Security Studies, ETH Zurich. Wilner is also a Senior Fellow at the Macdonald Laurier Institute in Ottawa France’s Africa links may have ...
February 6, 2013
February 6, 2013 – In an op-ed for The Globe and Mail, MLI Senior Fellow Alex Wilner says, “With Hezbollah on the ropes, Europe is in a position to land another blow. Blacklisting and sanctioning the organization will freeze Hezbollah’s European assets, weakening an already anemic but still dangerous terrorist organization.” Read his full op-ed ...
February 6, 2013
Highlights: Despite bombast, regime has been risk averse. Iran acts through proxies such as Hezbollah. Arab Spring setback for Iran. Regime change likely to happen from within eventually. MEDIA RELEASE OTTAWA, February 6, 2013 – Should Iran ever get nuclear weapons it is unlikely the regime will fire them itself or supply terrorist groups directly, ...
April 5, 2012
April 5, 2012 - Since the release of the Auditor General’s report earlier this week, there has been a lot of debate surrounding the F-35 fighter jet. One prominent voice in this discussion has been MLI’s Senior Fellow Alex Wilner. In an article for the latest issue issue of the Canadian Military Journal, Wilner and his colleague, Marco Wyss, write that although “the (F-35) ...
February 10, 2012
February 10, 2012 – In today’s Embassy Magazine, MLI Senior Fellow Alex Wilner discusses the recently unveiled counter-terrorism strategy. Wilner says, ”The benefits of publishing the strategy far outweigh the costs. It is not only a question of government accountability or of pushing counter-terrorism up the priority list. It is not even chiefly about promoting an ...
January 24, 2012
January 24, 2012 – In the latest issue of Vanguard Magazine, MLI Senior Fellow Alex Wilner and Marco Wyss discuss the case for F-35 jet fighters. They focus on the importance of investing in fifth-generation aircrafts rather than the “fourth-generation” alternatives. They also stress that where we buy our weapons is just as important as to what we buy. ...
July 29, 2011
July 29, 2011 - Recently, media coverage has been focusing on the recruitment of Somali-Canadians by the terror group al-Shabab, but MLI has been at the forefront of this issue. Alex Wilner, MLI fellow and senior researcher at the Centre for Securities Studies in Zurich, has addressed the issues raised by al-Shabab and he has posed a number of positive and thoughtful recommendations on the subject. Last ...
July 27, 2011
July 2011 – Jack Granatstein, a member of MLI’s Research Advisory Board, writes a monthly column for the Canadian Defence & Foreign Affairs Institute. This month, he comments on a recent Globe and Mail article on how the Harper government is giving the military a role in citizenship ceremonies. Granatstein takes issue with a comment in the article ...
