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The Real Test of Canada’s New Submarine Fleet

What should Canada’s next submarine fleet actually deliver? In this piece, Maral Hamzehloo examines how the selection of Germany’s TKMS could help close a critical undersea capability gap within the Canadian Armed Forces. She argues that the fleet could strengthen maritime awareness, deterrence, Arctic operations, and Canada’s contribution to continental and North Atlantic defence. However, its effectiveness will depend on whether Canada can sustain, crew, and integrate the new submarines over the long term.

Centre For Disinformation Studies

Democracy and Disinformation, Part 3: The Cost of Comfort

Canada has the institutions, the reports, and the warnings about disinformation. What it lacks is a population that feels the threat. In this article, Dominique Arseneau-Bruneau looks at how Canada’s lack of urgency affects its response to disinformation through the lens of legality, legitimacy, and speed, and what the cost of that comfort may ultimately be.

Cyber Security and Emerging Threats

The Battle for the Brain: Cognitive Warfare is Already Here

As some of history’s greatest military strategists have contended, human will is central to conflict. Yet, as emerging technologies capable of altering emotions, reasoning, and ultimately, human will, are progressively used to cause divide and modify conduct, NATO must place increasing importance on the cognitive domain of conflict.

Global Health and Security

What Does Global Antibiotic Resistance Really Mean? And How Will it Affect Us?

Antimicrobial resistance, or AMR, occurs when bacteria changes in ways that make the drugs designed to counter them unsuccessful. This is not a new phenomenon, as resistance has been tracked since shortly after antibiotics entered widespread use in the mid-20th century. What’s changed is the scale and the speed. In October 2025, the World Health Read More…

Cyber Security and Emerging Threats

The New Eyes of the North: GlobalEye, Canada-Sweden Defence Cooperation, and Arctic Security

Geopolitical competition in the Arctic is intensifying due to increased access to the region driven by climate change and interest in precious oil and other resources. In response to the growing need for security and surveillance on our nation’s Northern front, Canada’s ongoing discussions with Sweden to acquire the GlobalEye platform and produce Saab aircraft will significantly enhance Canada and NATO’s ability to monitor and respond to emerging threats across the North.

Centre For Disinformation Studies

The New Front: Russian Disinformation and Europe’s Youth

As social media becomes the primary source of political information for younger generations, Russian disinformation campaigns increasingly exploit digital platforms to undermine trust, fuel polarization, and discourage democratic participation. By examining today’s younger generation as a strategic target of information warfare, this article explores how disinformation has evolved into a growing challenge for democratic resilience and NATO’s collective security.

Uncategorized

Adjusting to Modern Warfare: How the Russo-Ukrainian War Changed Aerial Warfare

This article examines how the Russo-Ukrainian war led to the proliferation of low-cost unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) within modern military strategy. Specifically, it highlights how Canada and its NATO allies are shifting toward procuring first-person-view (FPV) drones as highly cost-effective alternatives to multi-million-dollar conventional hardware. The article ultimately argues that this technological shift forces Canada to rethink its own defence posture—not only by deploying UAVs to assert Arctic sovereignty, but also by modernizing NORAD to counter the growing threat of UAVs.

Cyber Security and Emerging Threats

2026 Virtual Policy Hackathon Report: A Tri-Partner Solution to Canada’s Uranium Challenge

NATO’s 2025 Science and Technology Organization Highlights report offers a snapshot of an Alliance pushing technological boundaries while struggling to align the systems behind them. Across data fusion, autonomy, and multidomain operations, innovation is accelerating faster than integration. These seams now shape the contours of NATO’s modernization challenge.

NATO and Canada

Pay to Play: What the PJBD Suspension Reveals About U.S. Alliance Reliability and Canada’s Strained Defence Integration with Washington

Rachel Potter analyzes the Trump administration’s suspension of the Permanent Joint Board on Defence, arguing that it marks a qualitative shift in U.S. alliance behaviour in which shared defence institutions are weaponized as instruments of coercion, revealing a strategic logic that goes beyond burden sharing disputes and instead reflects an effort to reshape the institutional architecture of continental defence on American terms.

Global Health and Security

The Global AI Race and Its Implications for Public Health Security: Risks and Opportunities

Artificial intelligence (AI) has rapidly become a defining feature of global strategic competition, with governments investing heavily in AI capabilities to strengthen economic competitiveness, technological leadership, and national security. While much of the discussion surrounding AI focuses on its transformative potential, less attention has been given to the broader implications of the infrastructure required to Read More…