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Andrew Latham, Opinion ContributorThe Hill |
If Canada’s Arctic investments translate into real capability, they could strengthen North American defense in practical ways.
Nations are becoming adept at provocations that fall in the area between routine peacetime actions and open warfare.
What has evolved in Ottawa’s messaging is how that war is being geographically situated.
Credibility now rests on coherence across institutions and consistency over time, not on episodic displays of volatility.
The age of smooth globalization, unipolarity and middle-power brokerage is over.
The lesson of the Whisky War is that strategic importance does not require theatrical melodrama.
When one looks closely at what the United States is actually doing at sea, the claim of a blockade becomes far less convincing.
It is a blunt admission that Canada has run out of room to hide a systemic failure that has long undermined both its national defense and its value...
Just as the first NORAD transformed geography into security, the next one must transform connectivity into security.
The concept is simple: Make every probe costly, every approach dangerous and every act of sabotage perilous long before it matures.
The international order is evolving quickly, with new cooperation mechanisms replacing inferior multilateral frameworks.
Nye’s signature ideas — soft power, the liberal order, ethical realism — are artifacts of an age that is over.
Something fundamental has changed. India has set a new threshold: It will no longer absorb attacks without a kinetic response.
The next pope cannot merely adjust the tone or refine the messaging — he must reverse course.
Carney’s proposed Arctic strategy reflects his fixation on green policies rather than concrete security needs.
Much of the alarmist rhetoric in Canada stems from a fundamental failure to grasp the evolution of U.S. strategic thought.
Ultimately, this war did not have to happen. The interaction of systemic pressures with human flaws drove Ukraine into conflict.
A nationalist Canada is not a Canada that resents the U.S. — it is one that understands its own value in the world and strengthens North America by...
The attacks on centrism stem from a fundamental misreading of history and politics.
The fall of the Assad regime has shattered the Middle East status quo.
The U.S. already has 50 states — and all of them are less of a mess than Canada or Britain.
By failing to fully appreciate the asymmetry between a democratic state defending itself against terrorism and an organization committed to that...
This latest round of territorial musings is vintage Trump — provocative, headline-grabbing and unserious.