When Donald Trump wanted Iranian general Qasem Soleimani killed, the CIA did not have an agent lace his teacup with poison at a civilian airport.

Rather than spend the $500,000 in repairs to the memorial hall, the cenotaph should be relocated to Beechwood Cemetery.

This was not the Department of National Defence’s first rodeo, and it won’t be its last. 

For a man who has repeatedly claimed to be 'the most militaristic person ever,' Donald Trump seems to have little real grasp on how this defence stuff actually works.

The sweepstakes have begun and pundits are already laying odds on who will be Canada’s next chief of the defence staff, but there is no clear-cut frontrunner from the pack of Canada’s senior officers.

That’s right folks, as hard as it is to fathom, there is actually a monument on Canadian soil that pays tribute to Hitler’s SS troops.

The RCMP officers involved are to be commended on their poise and patience. I cannot imagine a similar peaceful surrender if someone crashed the gates of the White House.

It would be foolhardy to believe that blood payments altered in any way the failed course of the American-led war in Afghanistan.

While Kosovo remains in a sort of international status limbo, President Hashim Thaçi has been living up to his old nickname.

Everyone knows what they are, so why the official attempt to spin the Challengers into some sort of air-ambulance, utility delivery plane?

When a leak occurs, it is not about embarrassing the institution, it is about setting the record straight. If DND wants to prevent leaks, they need to tell the truth in a timely manner.

Canada is not without racial injustice, however, the current crisis has served to illustrate that there are indeed cultural differences between Canada and our southern neighbour.

With this most recent crash putting the Snowbirds back in the spotlight, and the COVID-19 crisis, it may be difficult for the government to justify the needed spending to replace the aging Tutor aircraft.

Chrystia Freeland should assemble the Lima Group and recognize Barack Obama as the interim acting U.S. president until their election in November.

In this era of 'fake news' by malign actors, we need our official sources to provide us with accurate details. In this case, DND was inexplicably off the mark.

Hopefully, Canada will cut its ties with Juan Guaidó now that his true colours have been revealed.

One of the most common phrases uttered by civilians when they hear of such a tragedy is, 'I can’t imagine what these families must be going through.' For the military community, it's something they know all too well.

Put side-by-side, Canada’s response to the coronavirus crisis is stand up well in relation to the crap show unfolding south of the border.

The lesson the Canadian Navy can learn from the U.S. is that since we are not at war and the virus is real, the safety of our sailors must take priority over operational duties.

By far the biggest and most dangerous source of disinformation around COVID-19 has been none other than U.S. President Donald Trump himself.

Wars, by their very nature, stimulate economic activity and with the COVID-19 crisis we have the exact opposite course of action, in that we have strictly enforced idleness for all but essential workers.

A premature, public relations optics-only deployment of the CAF is not going to help fix this broken egg called COVID-19.

One has to hope that our international leaders will quickly realize that you cannot close the borders to a virus that is already expanded to all corners of the world.

Like the sign says in the china shop, ‘if you break it, you bought it.’ Canada did not break Iraq.