he world is dangerous and money is short; finding the correct response to the threats is difficult, complicated, and the people tasked with managing the defence and security of Western nations are feeling the pressure.
In early February, Legion House in Kanata, Ont., was the site of a high-level gathering of stakeholders on veterans’ issues. Put together by the Conference of Defence Associations (CDA) as a part of its 2015 series of roundtable discussions, the event was centred on presentations by Veterans Ombudsman Guy Parent and National Defence and Canadian Forces Ombudsman Gary Walbourne, followed by a discussion.
The perplexing war with militant Islam Out of the chaos of the Syrian and Iraq civil wars, a new group of Sunni Muslim
It takes only a cursory glance at recent headlines to see that the Russian bear has not only awoken, but is angry, quite possibly rabid.
Not content to merely create chaos in rewriting the map of Eastern Europe, or to panic its neighbours farther afield with constant bomber flights across their flanks, the Russians have also recently turned their sights to the far north.
The aftermath of a close encounter with the Russian Bear and a consideration of some very dangerous alliances
In news from Canada’s shooting war, it turns out that the mission to advise and assist Kurdish forces in northern Iraq had a much more rigorous amount of assisting involved than was initially made clear.
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