Vladimir Putin is playing a high-stakes guessing game with Ukraine: Aurel Braun in the Globe and Mail
The West has many tools to signal to Putin that any new major military action would carry risks that far outweigh the benefits....
Four years on, the Latvia mission is Canada’s quiet success: Alexandra Richards, Christian Leuprecht, Alexander Moens and Alexander Lanoszka for Inside Policy
A more informed understanding by the public is necessary to ensure our domestic bipartisan political consensus underpins the Latvia mission, write Alexandra Richards,...
Military efforts at home are increasingly the norm. A Joint Task Force Canada is the next logical step: Christian Leuprecht in the Globe and Mail
Evidently, domestic operations are no longer a part-time sideshow, yet the CAF still responds to emergencies with pick-up teams, writes Christian Leuprecht in...
The Decline of Canada’s Defence Aviation industry: Richard Shimooka in the Hill Times
If the government is serious in its desire to sustain the aerospace, and defence aerospace industry, it must do so through a well-reasoned...
The Moral Hazard in using Canadian Armed Forces as Provincial First Responders: New MLI Commentary by Christian Leuprecht
Ottawa, ON (December 8, 2020): For some provincial governments, the pandemic has effectively transformed the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) into provincial emergency first...
Shifting Focus But Not Purpose: The Canadian Military’s Role in the COVID-19 Vaccine Rollout - Carter Vance and Adam P. MacDonald for Inside Policy
The Canadian Armed Forces are not going to come to our collective rescue, but intelligent deployment of the military could ease the burden...
Riga Conference 2020
The Rīga Conference is an annual meeting of regional and international experts in foreign policy and defence, academics, journalists, and business representatives, promoting...
The new nuclear arms race that wasn't: James Fergusson for Inside Policy
Despite the idealistic hopes and fears of arms control advocates, arms agreements are a product of the political environment of the time. Politics...
Defining a role for the Canadian Armed Forces in humanitarian assistance and disaster relief: Christian Leuprecht and Peter Kasurak in the Hill Times
Overall, humanitarian assistance and disaster relief is a significant and growing demand on CAF resources—though it fits uneasily with the vision the CAF...
Webinar Panel Video: Three Years on the Baltic Watch
In 2017, Canada took up a leadership role as the Framework Nation of NATO’s Enhanced Forward Presence (EFP) Battlegroup in Latvia. And, immediately...
