Wargaming the information environment
by Sean W. Havel In July of 1870, in the spa town of Bad Ems, a polite conversation between a Prussian King and a French diplomat took place over the candidacy of a Hohenzollern prince to the Spanish throne. The two departed on good terms, despite the King’s...
The Right Stuff
by Chris Thatcher If you’ve ever wondered what S.W.A.T, CSI, NCIS, and Code Black might look like all rolled into one, meet the Canadian Joint Incident Response Unit (CJIRU). Part special forces operators, part forensic scientists, part police detectives, and...
Taking on the tanks
by Kevin Wang and HengLiang Wu Recent combat experiences in Ukraine have shown that portable anti-tank weaponry gives infantry a chance to fight against armoured targets, which are immune to rifles and grenades. The large variety of such weapons can be divided...
Protection Detail
by Chris Thatcher As two Bell CH-146 Griffon helicopters alternated high and low sweeps overhead, a CH-147F Chinook cleared the treeline and rapidly descended into a clearing. Its wheels touched the gravel just long enough for a medical team and four force...
Delivering electronic warfare effects: For 21 EW Regiment, the first task is explaining what they do
by Ian Coutts In the world of electromagnetic warfare, what you can’t see can definitely hurt you. Wherever we are in the world today – this includes our own homes as well as in the modern battlespace – we are immersed in a bath of electromagnetic radiation....
Integrating the big guns
by Chris Thatcher In the wake of Russia’s invasion of Crimea in 2014, NATO allies responded with the formation of enhanced Forward Presence (eFP) Battle Groups in eastern Europe as one of several deterrence measures. The Canadian-led battle group in Latvia...
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