Canada’s Defence Department is looking to replace the CF-18 fighter jets, which have been in service since 1984, with U.S. aircraft known as Joint Strike …
Defence policy
NATO boss says Afghan strategy was flawed
In a June interview with the Dutch magazine Vrij Nederland NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer stated that making individual NATO members responsible for …
Will Canada Join the Drone War in Pakistan?
Speculation as to what Canada’s role in Afghanistan will be beyond 2001 has been stirred up amid recent reports that Obama Democrats are quietly lobbying …
Obama Opposes Additional Funding for F-22s
President Obama made the rare move of threatening to veto one of his own bills after senators made a last minute addition to his defence …
A new war….a new weapon
In Defense News, Gen. James Cartwright announced that over the next few years the U.S is likely to be engaged in new conflicts and that …
Global Arms Spending on the Rise
According to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute’s annual report on world arms transfers, global arms spending was up by 4 percent last year. The …