From CANSEC 2025 with Love
Written by Chris Murray & Stewart Webb The DefenceReport team was in full force at this year’s CANSEC, which was widely agreed to be the biggest and most successful thus…
The Price of Sovereignty: Increasing Europe’s Defence Spending
This year has proved dramatic for Europe’s leadership. Despite ample warnings from the Trump administration and its surrogates about a pivot away from long-standing security commitments in Europe to focus…
Canada’s 2% Problem
11 July 2024 Prime Minister Trudeau is in Washington DC for the NATO summit this week where he and his team have been getting absolutely pummeled for Canada’s pathetic defence…
Canada is Not Ready for the 21st Century
5 December 2023 Canada is not ready for the world ahead. The military is underfunded and understaffed; the government does not have a foreign policy direction. Moreover, Canadian political discourse…
The Government of Canada has no idea what it’s doing on Defence
29 March 2022 The news of the Russian invasion of Ukraine has garnered a fairly intense reaction in Canada, at least by Canadian standards as far as a foreign policy…
Lemons may fly: Canada pondering the purchase of used F/A-18s
8 December 2017 -Vancouver, CA by Stewart Webb Up until recently, it seemed that the Canadian government would purchase 18 new F/A-18 Super Hornets from the US as the US…
The Unspoken Capability Gap in Canada’s Mechanized Units
6 December 2017 – Ottawa, CA by Rob O’Gorman, CD Canada’s New “Iron Fist” – The CV9035? With the demise of Canada’s Close Combat Vehicle (CCV) competition and the adoption…
Canada’s National Shipbuilding Strategy Heading for the Rocks & What Should Be Done
4 December 2017 – Vancouver, CA by Stewart Webb Canada’s most ambitious procurement plan, since shortly after the Second World War, is in peril like so many other procurement projects…
Mackenzie Institute Report: Returning to Port: A Needed Course Correction to Keep the National Shipbuilding Strategy off the Rocks
9 May 2017 – Victoria/Toronto, CA by Stewart Webb” Today, the Mackenzie Institute published “Returning to Port: A Needed Course Correction to Keep the National Shipbuilding Strategy off the Rocks”.…
The Aussie Defence FUBAR
25 February 2016, Kingston, CA by Chris Murray In January of 2015 Defence Report raised a flag of concern in an article concerning a new piece of Australian legislation, the…