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Global medical supply chains are among the most complex and interdependent systems in the modern world, linking raw material producers, manufacturers, distributors, and healthcare providers across multiple continents. This interdependence has historically enabled efficiency, cost reduction, and broad access to life-saving medicines and technologies. However, recent geopolitical tensions, coupled with the lessons of the COVID-19 Read More…
For most of its history, NATO’s credibility rested on assets it could command: troops, bases, weapons systems, and integrated military planning. Deterrence depended on capabilities that were clearly owned, coordinated, and deployable under alliance authority. Today, however, the foundations of collective defence increasingly lie outside NATO’s direct control. Undersea data cables, satellite networks, commercial cloud Read More…
Brad McInnis is the founder of cyberzero and the creator of Quantanaut, a cryptographic intelligence platform that helps organizations uncover hidden cryptographic dependencies and plan a practical transition to post quantum security. He has more than twenty-five years of defence intelligence and military experience. In Part 1 of this conversation, Brad unpacks why the overdue migration to Post Read More…
The global transition to clean energy is accelerating demand for critical minerals, placing Canada at the center of opportunity and environmental risk. Partnerships centered on critical minerals for the green energy transition require expanded mining and resource extraction, which can lead to land degradation, water contamination, and biodiversity loss. Canada has increasingly prioritized the development Read More…
Rising oil prices, shifting markets, and geopolitical tensions have left most individuals struggling from the impacts of the Iran War. However, some have reaped the benefits from trading with stocks, futures, and prediction markets. Author Esha Grewal takes a closer look at the broader security impacts from individuals profiting off the war.
As NATO allies commit to spending 5% of GDP on defence by 2035, Kaya Dupuis examines how Canada plans to finance its most ambitious military commitment since the Cold War and whether a new multilateral bank can succeed where Victory Bonds once did. Can capital markets do what kitchen-table patriotism once accomplished?
Charles de Gaulle, the father of the French Fifth Republic and French nuclear policy, once proclaimed that “no country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independent.” Consequently, France is the only European NATO ally with a domestically developed nuclear arsenal. Said arsenal has enabled French leaders to pursue a degree of strategic differentiation within NATO, where France remains outside NATO structures like the Nuclear Planning Group. French policymakers have long spoken Read More…
Where are the Pacific Islands in Canada’s Indo-Pacific Strategy? In his latest article, Joel Sawyer examines Canada’s Pacific Islands approach, highlighting the region’s central importance to geopolitical competition, food security, and as an potential source of climate change-induced insecurity.
How is the Iran war reshaping China’s strategic calculations toward Taiwan? Nguyen Bao Han Tran examines how the conflict is reinforcing two competing lessons for Beijing: weaker actors can impose serious costs through asymmetric drone warfare, while prolonged U.S. military engagement elsewhere may strain allied deterrence in the Indo-Pacific. As Middle Eastern and Asian security dynamics become increasingly interconnected, this article argues that China may become more cautious about full-scale invasion while finding blockade, gray-zone coercion, and other strategies below the threshold of war increasingly attractive.
Isabelle Zhu argues that NATO DIANA can serve as a key platform to uplift women in STEM. By providing opportunities to connect women across the Alliance with the private and public sectors, government, and academia, DIANA has the potential to advance women’s involvement and participation in these fields.