Peacekeeping not apace: feds’ spending plan for UN operations down 42 per cent from 2015-16
Global Affairs Canada is proposing a 15.7-per-cent decline from planned spending of $219.9-million in 2024-25, and a 42.7 per cent decline from the actual spending of $323.9-million in 2015-16.
The misadventures of Navy procurement
Successive governments routinely state ‘nothing is too good for our military,’ and therefore ‘nothing’ is what they get.
Carney’s defence industrial agenda: two steps forward, one step back
The most immediate challenge will be to ensure that the defence acquisitions currently in the pipeline aren’t ground to a halt as the government works its way through the thicket of hurdles.
The procurement problem
Defence procurement does not exist in a vacuum, and must be consistent with the government’s overall foreign and defence policy.
The building blocks for procurement progress
Government, industry, and the Armed Forces need consistency and predictability in a geopolitical environment that has neither.
Investing in first-person-view kamikaze drones is a practical move to help shut Canada’s artillery gap
During combat operations, FPVs offer an array of tactical advantages that aim to make the battlefield more lethal, forcing adversaries to be on the defensive.
National defence is a key component of the economic strategy
National defence and economic sovereignty are inextricably linked, and we must begin treating them as such.
It is up to cabinet to fix military retention
If we want to retain service members, ensuring that they can afford to stay in the military, and that they think their organization puts its people first is a critical step.
Soldiers left out in the cold—again
Despite all the bluster about defending our Arctic, our military procurement system is proving incapable of providing resources durable enough for use in our northern climate.
New faces, old problems: does Carney’s new cabinet have the political will to fix defence procurement?
A dedicated secretary of state is ‘good news,’ but doesn’t signal the feds have someone in place to ‘who’s willing to own the risk’ on the defence procurement file, says professor Christian Leuprecht.
