Further to this post and “Comments”, Arctic: NW Passage Commercial Shipping Long Way Off/No Shell the latest at two tweets: 1) RCI-EyeOnTheArctic @eyeonthearctic 2) Fulbright Arctic @…
Source: Mark Collins – Bye, Bye Big Oil Drilling in US Arctic Waters
Further to this post, a tweet: Scroll down to “0850…[English]” at the Parliament link above. Now I usually do not agree with the good professor (see e.g. “The Canadian Force…
Source: Mark Collins – No Need For Hoo-Hah Over the Bear and Arctic Waters, Part 2
And were not talking about the status of the polar type (more here)–further to this post, Arctic Tensions Not Really About the Region but Relations With Russia there’s a lot of good sen…
Source: Mark Collins – No Need For Hoo-Hah Over the Bear and Arctic Waters
I wrote earlier: What to Do About the Bloody Middle East? … Poor bloody locals. If the West is truly willing to sort things out right now, are we then willing to rule–one way or another–for some de…
Source: Mark Collins – The West and the Middle East: No Guts
Further to the latter part of this post, Who Needs Fifth Generation (Stealth) Fighters? But Escorted Russian Bombers? a Russian fighter jet makes another very long flight: Intercept This! Russian M…
Source: Mark Collins – NORAD to Face Escorted Cruise Missile-Carrying Russian Bombers?
Videos and more from the Conference of Defence Associations Institute. Mark Collins, a prolific Ottawa blogger, is a Fellow at the Canadian Global Affairs Institute; he tweets @Mark3Ds
Source: Mark Collins – “CDA and CDA Institute 2016 Ottawa Conference on Security and Defence Recap”
From the review’s new webpage, with lots of further links (note also those at right of page): Welcome The Department of National Defence (DND) has launched public consultations in the develop…
Source: Mark Collins – Canadian “Defence Policy Review” and Consultations Go Online
Our politicians and media largely ignore–unlike their constant focus on military procurements–our mostly silent (civilian) service, to its great detriment. Now the awful facts described…
Further to this post, “A letter to the New [Canadian] Minister of National Defence on the Defence Policy Review” two pieces at the Conference of Defence Associations Institute (via e-mail): ……
Source: Mark Collins – Canadian Defence Review: CDA Institute Analyses
As things now stand the CCG is not supposed to get its–only one–new icebreaker, to be built by Seaspan Vancouver, until 2022 (if they’re lucky): New Canadian Coast Guard Icebreake…
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