Delusions of adequacy: How Russia and Pakistan lie to themselves in similar ways

 The ongoing assault on Ukraine by Russia has drawn plenty of comment, with the focus primarily on those aspects that are now apparent at a glance, and are particularly troubling. They are easy to list. The Russian action is evil. Its justification was absurd. Its conduct has been incompetent beyond

Ukraine is our wake-up call: Canadian Forces lack capabilities to be operational

 OP-ED by Lieutenant-General (retd) J.O.Michel Maisonneuve The chickens have come to roost. The current crisis in Ukraine has shown that our lack of preparation on many fronts and our obsession with the woke agenda now precludes us from taking action like the serious nation we should be. The CAF Canadians

Kazakhstan in Central Asia: Security, Safety and Peaceful Imperatives

 Global nuclear disarmament and nuclear non-proliferation, Kazakhstan’s commitments, International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) support and the next steps were very much front and centre at the August 28-29, 2016 Conference in Astana on Building a Nuclear-weapon-Free World,  co-hosted by the Senate and Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of

Kazakhstan: at the forefront of nuclear non-proliferation and peaceful uses of nuclear energy

 In our continuing series on Canada-Kazakhstan relations, we look at Kazakhstan’s expanding uranium mining sector and its position in the vanguard of middle-power countries supporting nuclear non-proliferation. The decision of Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbayev in 1991 to eliminate the nuclear test site in Kazakhstan ended 40 years of nuclear tests