- What’s Canada Buying?
- “US clears $1 billion in Raytheon weapons for Canada, South Korea and Japan … Canada has been cleared to purchase $387 million worth of MK 54 lightweight torpedo conversion kits …”
- “Canada – MK 54 Lightweight Torpedoes — The State Department has made a determination approving a possible Foreign Military Sale to Canada of MK 54 lightweight torpedoes with support for an estimated cost of $387 million …” (Defense Security Cooperation Agency info-machine)
- “Canada to buy 425 MK 54 lightweight torpedo conversion kits”
- “Boeing offered Super Hornet Block III fighters to Canada”
- Big Honkin’ Ship Document Leak Case
- ” ‘It was my decision and my responsibility’: Vance speaks on suspension of Vice-Admiral Mark Norman”
- “Liberals stymie Commons defence committee inquiry into Mark Norman case”
- “Liberals vote down attempt to launch probe into Mark Norman case”
- “Les libéraux refusent d’entendre Mark Norman en comité parlementaire”
- “Andrew Scheer veut une enquête publique dans l’affaire Mark Norman”
- “Conservatives say they’re ‘confident’ Mark Norman will expose more Liberal wrongdoing”
- ” ‘The fight of your life’: Mark Norman finally tells his side of the story”
- “Le vice-amiral Mark Norman raconte son cauchemar”
- “How the Liberals spent the week blaming everyone else for the Mark Norman fiasco”
- “Mark Norman has been vindicated – but the navy-procurement crisis ticks on”
- “Chantier Davie: une enquête de la GRC lancée après une colère de Trudeau”
- Afghanistan
- “Canadian Forces Afghan memorial dedicated in ceremony (14 May) – officials decided to limit publicity”
- #CHN/Pacific Rim
- “Canada sends delegation to China to press for release of citizens Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor”
- “Canada sends delegation to China to press for release of citizens”
- “Two Canadians Arrested on State Secrets Charges”
- “Kovrig is ‘holding up as well as one could hope for,’ says Canadian detainee’s boss”
- “China’s offensive on Canada, in plain sight”
- “Chinese businessman-turned-Taoist leader confirms he is father of the student who was kidnapped in Canada”
- “USS Preble Sails Near Scarborough Shoal in South China Sea”
- “Coast Guard Gives US New Tool in Disputed South China Sea”
- “South China Sea: US Destroyer Conducts Freedom of Navigation Operation Near Scarborough Shoal”
- “China opposes US provocation in South China Sea” (CHN mil media)
- “Experts: It’s of little effect for US to gang up allies and stir up the South China Sea” (CHN mil media)
- “(US) Navy has four ships patrolling South China Sea”
- “What does the reduction of Okinawa-based US Marine Corps imply?” (CHN mil media)
- “Xi stresses military personnel education for strong armed forces” (CHN mil media)
- “Chinese, Russian senior diplomats agree to boost joint efforts on global strategic stability” (CHN mil media)
- “Trump Bans China’s Huawei In US Amid National Security Concerns”
- “Australia – caught between the U.S. and China – has banned Huawei. Why can’t Canada?”
- #OpPRESENCE/#MLI-Africa
- “Mali violence: Nigerian peacekeeper killed in Timbuktu”
- “Burkina Faso Seeks Broad Sahel Anti-Terror Coalition”
- “Christians in Burkina Faso seek refuge”
- “Islamic State claims it killed 28 Nigerien soldiers”
- “Group 1 of China’s 6th batch of peacekeepers to Mali return home” (CHN mil media)
- “G5-Sahel force five years on”
- Way Up North
- “Winning at all costs: the bizarre position of the Trump administration on the Northwest Passage”
- “Russia says its radio-electronic shield now covers the Arctic”
- “Moscow as Beijing’s ‘Useful Partner’ in the Arctic Region”
- “F-22s Intercept Russian Bombers, Fighter Jets Off Coast of Alaska”
- “U.S. fighter jets intercept Russian warplanes off Alaska”
- “U.S. fighters escort Russian strategic bombers over Arctic, Pacific oceans”
- “Denmark threatens Russia with fighter jets in Arctic region”
- “US fighter jets intercept Russian warplanes off the coast of Alaska”
- “Putin makes Arctic push”
- “The Arctic is America’s Next Maritime Frontier”
- “Chinese rig makes massive gas discovery in Arctic Russia”
- #OpREASSURANCE/Russia-Baltics-Cold War 2.0
- “Lithuanian Armed Forces prepares for Exercise Defender 2020” (LTU MoD)
- “Russia’s Special Operations Forces Command and the Strategy of Limited Actions”
- Internal Security
“Turkey willing to help Canada repatriate ISIS members held in Syria, official says” - “NATO researchers consult federal government on foreign election meddling”
- “Protecting Elections: A Strategic Communications Approach” (NATO info-machine)
- “Canada introducing digital charter to combat hate speech, misinformation”
- ” ‘Distasteful alliances’: The secret story of Canada’s fight against migrants”
- Veterans & Helping Veterans (or Not?)
- “Disabled Veterans Under attack by VAC” (open letter via Facebook)
- Sexual Assault/Harassment in the CF
- “The Department of National Defence and Statistics Canada will hold a news conference to address the findings in the 2018 Statistics Canada Survey on Sexual Misconduct in the Canadian Armed Forces on Wednesday, May 22, at 9 a.m. (EDT) …” (DND info-machine)
- “Sexual Harassment and Violence in the Canadian Armed Forces” (Senate of Canada)
- “Inconduite sexuelle toujours omniprésente au sein des Forces armées canadiennes, conclut un comité sénatorial”
- “Former sailor remembers persecution that followed decriminalization of homosexuality”
- Other Military News
- Did the headline writer REALLY mean this? “High schoolers go commando at military co-op placement”
- “Gen. Vance receives a raise – Trudeau recommended increase to upper limit of $306,500”
- “Canada, NATO, and the ‘Dumbbell’ Concept”
- “Better bang for a bullet: Artillery school aligns core exercises with courses” (Canadian Army Today)
- “Parliament Hill excavation uncovers pre-Confederation military complex”