Will Canada get nuclear weapons? (video)
6 February 2026 Featured image: “Atomic bomb explosion” – Wikimedia Commons, 2026
National Indigenous Defence Conference (NIDC) 2026
*This overview was published for the NIDC 2026, being held in Ottawa on 27 February 2026 Overview The National Indigenous Defence Conference will advance reconciliation efforts, strengthen partnerships, build capacity,…
Report – From the Depths: Getting the Victoria-class Submarine Replacement Right
28 October 2025 For multiple governments, the Victoria-class submarine fleet has been a procurement curse. The subs have been on land more than at sea, undergoing extensive refits and numerous…
Canada’s Blue River Project could solve the West’s Tantalum vulnerability
From compact electronics like the phone in your pocket to the systems powering national defence, a little-known metal called tantalum is an irreplaceable component of modern life. This rare, blue-gray…
Trump’s India-Pakistan realignment will have international ramifications
13 August 2025 Pakistani Field Marshal Asim Munir spoke at a black-tie dinner hosted by a Pakistani-origin businessman in Florida on Saturday. There were close to 100 people at the…
Rock to Chips: Ensuring continued Canadian Prosperity
Two reports released this year – AI 2027 and Future Lives: Social Mobility in Question – deserve far more attention than they’ve received. Alongside Could Canada Be a Failed State?…
Could Canada be a Failed State?
The term “Failed State” conjures a narrow set of ideas in most people’s minds. Generally, one probably pictures a post-apocalyptic hellscape where there is no law and order, no governing…
Goal posts moving: Carney & NATO’s 2%
The Canadian government, under Prime Minister Mark Carney, unveiled a defence policy bombshell. It has been pledged that the Canadian government will reach its 2% commitment of GDP to defence…
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…
Trump’s European tariffs risk endangering America.
8 April 2025 America’s ‘Liberation Day’ brought forth a whole range of new tariffs against a wide range of countries. To put it politely, there is an extremely robust debate…