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David J. Bercuson

Hard spending decisions needed

Lee Berthiaume, writing for the Canadian Press last fall, referred to “internal Defence Department documents” in a story about the need to spend billions, beginning

The politics of replacing the CF-18

Here we go again! On Nov. 22, Ottawa announced its long- sought solution to the apparently never-ending search for a replacement for Canada’s three-plus decades old

Measuring our military’s worth

If it does nothing else, let’s hope that the current defence review gets real about what the basic missions of the Canadian Armed Forces should

How Canada’s defence money is spent

In early July, Justin Trudeau’s government announced that in 2017 it will dispatch a “battle group” of 450 soldiers to command one of four North

New twists in the fighter jets saga

The unrolling saga of replacing Canada’s 1980s CF-188 fighter jets (known to almost everyone as the CF-18) gets more convoluted with each passing month. It

A defence review for different times

The Liberal election platform last fall contained a pledge to conduct a full review of Canada’s defence requirements and as this column is being written

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