Overview of the Canadian Supply Chain Security Landscape
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Years ago, I was the lead Naval Architect/Naval Engineer on the design team for an unmanned…
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What can Star Trek teach the military about survivability? Some might argue quite a lot: defensive…
Read More »Flaws in China’s Strategic Thinking
Recently, an editorial in the Chinese state-run newspaper the Global Times alleged that the almost 80-year-old Five…
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The Department of Defence appears to be in the early stages of identifying a ship-launched land-attack…
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It is of course a bit early to predict the course of action the new U.S.…
Read More »The Global Strategic Shift: 2017-2021
If you live inside the Beltway, the title of this piece can be answered simply: Donald…
Read More »Japanese-UK Cooperation: Shaping New Combat Air Systems?
A surprising defence-technology partnership is emerging between Japan and the UK. The cooperation is mostly preliminary…
Read More »The U.S. Navy Prepares the Way for Unmanned Surface Vessels
One of the most rapidly growing areas of innovative technology adoption involves unmanned systems. The U.S.…
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