2025 Defence Platforms: Promises, Costs, and What? It has been a tradition here to look at the defence platforms in the run-up to Canadian elections and see what they say (for the intel stuf...

My take on the Canadian parties' promises on defence saideman.blogspot.com/2025/04/2025... #CAMilSky with the cover from 2015

First thoughts on the new CDS saideman.blogspot.com/2024/06/new-... I don't think she is being set up to fail, but she will have a very tough job. #CaMilSky #cdndef

Last week, we had a great edited volume workshop on Canadian Civil-Military Relations saideman.blogspot.com/2024/06/work... #cdndef #cdnpoli #CAMilSky

Holiday Classics Elf GIF

Excited to announce the application page for the next @cdsn.bsky.social Summer Institute is now open www.cdsn-rcds.com/summerinstit... A great opportunity to learn and to develop one's networks across traditional divides. Military and policy officials, academics, media are most welcome! #CaMilSky

I skeeted earlier about a controversy that should not be one--that a special issue of the Canadian Military Journal focused on the legacies of racism, misogyny, and such. Here's my longer take saideman.blogspot.com/2024/01/resi... It starts with Mach. #CivMilSky #CaMilSky

The usual sharp analysis of CAF sexual misconduct by Charlotte Duval-Lantoine on the new statscan report on sexual assault in the CAF dndcaf101.substack.com/p/the-statis... #cdndef #CAMilSky

Spending today and tomorrow at our Meeting of the MINDS conference which we organized to bring together the 9 MINDS networks and with the DND folks. Lots of great exchanges already. #CaMilSky