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- The Old Guard
- On Target
- Baird coming to his senses?
- Media should broaden its scope
- Fear and panic created by the media
- Much more than good vs. evil in Syria
- In nation-building, decision to avoid war should outweigh single battle
- Baird, Bahrain and the bogus Iran Excuse
- Looking beyond the demonization strategy
- Hard to identify the good guys in Syria
- Mali quick fix unlikely to work
- Procurement accountability in short supply
- Victory in Mali another case of defining success
- It's time to learn from our mistakes
- Mali wasn't the final act
- Canada's North African contradictions
- How we helped create the Mali mess?
- Stage set in Afghanistan for history to repeat itself
- Foreigners, including al-Qaida, fill ranks of Free Syrian Army
- Pushing the "Reset Button" on the F-35 Does Not Mean the Purchase is Cancelled
- Assad completely bonkers
- War crimes in Europe still go unpunished
- Progress in Afghanistan line won't fly
- Petraeus was blown out of proportion
- Video clip offensive but not a crime
- Syrian opposition conference may prove futile
- Reports on Libyan war crimes
- Ironic behaviour from US private security firm
- From regional to global powder keg
- Turkey's involvement changes Syrian war
- Awarded for belligerence
- Canada's place in Gulf war games
- "Round up the usual suspects!"
- What fate awaits Canada's new top soldier?
- Who should Baird cheer for now?
- Army commander as excellent choice for next chief of defence staff
- With Afghan army, you get what you give
- Syrian opposition takes credit for gruesome murders
- Be careful what you wish for, Afshin-Jam
- Hypocritical for West to rejoice in success of Syrian suicide attack
- Sorry trucks saga yet another procurement blight
- Violence from Within Blooms as Pullout Looms
- Conservatives defend decision to purchase F-35's
- F-35 purchase stirs controversy as Bob Rae calls for Harper's resignation
- Afghanistan report tabled as pre-budget media storm begins
- British Media uncovers Assad's private emails to his wife
- 'Victory over Libya' extravaganza prompts questions
- New order of the day in Afghanistan: Cut and run
- U.S. has own take on what war crimes are
- Doubts about subs continue to surface
- It's time for a reality check on Harper's tough talk about Iran
- Imprisoned but not demoralized
- It’s time to end the Conference of Defence Associations’ military funding
- Libyan war not a victory
- West conditioned to ignore barbaric behaviour
- Award is undeserved
- Mission impossible from the outset
- It's not even David vs. Goliath
- 2011 in review
- Hypocrisy from Benghazi to Baltimore
- Kabul Tourism: Not for the Faint of Heart
- 16-9 On Target September 7
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- 20-04 - In this Issue
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- On Target
- Canadian Military
- Politics
- Watch out Daniel Craig, you've got some competition here
- Air force should have used tough love on MacKay
- Baird's hunt for WMD in Libya is too ironic for words
- Natynczyk hosed over Hillier’s game
- Royal monikers no surprise inside Forces
- An idiot abroad?
- Mission possible: New role for the CF
- Staples outs the Brass
- A Mirage in Azerbaijan could be the real deal
- We were the ones mooching in UAE
- MacKay not grounded on F-35
- Lacking intelligence
- Not quite an "out of their rucksacks" job
- Harper took bad advice on UAE file
- Michäelle Jean earned her stripes
- MacKay a little too quick off the mark
- Peter MacKay's boogeyman
- Cannon off the mark
- Something doesn't sound right
- The messenger shoots back
- Amrullah Saleh: a Man with Answers
- Further Cuts to Operational Readiness
- the Rights and Legal Status of 'Illegal Combatants'
- Hillier May Not Be Home Free Just Yet
- Rebuilding Haiti: a Time to Revise Foreign Aid Strategy
- Success of Terrorism is Measured by our Reaction
- Troops alone not enough
- Christie Blatchford: Willing Groupie
- Afghanistan and Vietnam: No similarity say some
- MacKay in Colvin's Crosshairs
- Comparing Apples to Oranges and the End of NATO
- Canada has Not Earned the Right to Lead NATO
- On Target for December 29, 2008
- Harper should have studied "The Art of War"
- Our troops and Peter MacKay's true colours
- Another reminder of Canada's light weight
- Canadians stand guard on Korean front line
- Canada cutting edge on counter-insurgency
- Casting a wide net to find the Big Cod's successor
- Challenges await Hillier's successor
- Forces treads water after Big Cod bolts
- Bucharest not nearly the victory it seemed
- Don't be too quick to condemn
- Soldier's comments don't make sense
- Harper had best beware The Big Cod in military matters
- Peter MacKay's terrible day
- MacKay should get off 'blame-Iran' bandwagon
- Western countries don't treat detainees well either
- Conflict must be seen as more than way to pay NATO dues
- Defence minister withering under barrage of bad publicity
- Chretien beat Harper to a dangerous war zone
- Latest federal budget has few military bucks
- O'Connor can't be that blind
- Tories have also had hand in shortchanging military
- Key for Hillier to stick to mandate
- Questions lost among accolades
- Stick to your job, Hillier
- O’Connor wins his first political battle on merit
- Hillier rallies the troops
- Media not doing their job in war zones, journalist says
- Get ready for yet another defence minister
- Liberal ad gaffe will be costly
- Inmates in control
- Bureaucrats Hillier’s toughest foe
- Attempt to keep court martial secret backfires
- 'Small fire' on sub doesn’t rattle top brass
- Defence woes more than money
- Power vacuum
- CANADA COMMAND?
- Cote poor fit for new ombudsman: Graham should seek another candidate
- Cote poor fit for new ombudsman
- For once, dithering may aid Canada
- Sudan package political PM's sudden announcement
- Militaries avoid the blame game in recent rulings
- Commander may be fall guy for sub tragedy
- A naive Hillier and perplexed Cellucci
- Cellucci's criticisms on the money
- Drastic changes ahead
- only-graham-would-find-resolve-in-2005
- Poppy-wearing politicians fall short
- Americans out of step with world
- As unprepared as ever to wage war on terror
- Nix missile defence
- Procurement
- F-35: The politics of procurement
- A forward thinking option for Canada's future fighter
- At Least We're Winning the Arms Race
- Haitian Crisis Highlights Canadian Logistic Limitations
- Armoured Vehicle Spin Fizzles Out
- Air Force Chief's Bluff is Called
- On Target for December 22, 2008
- Joint Support Ship has floundered in a 'minefield'
- New tanks will buy Afghan mission more time
- Government can't sacrifice competition for speed
- Business as usual in procurement wars
- After years of Liberal neglect, Tories aim to fix our military
- Budget letdown
- Taking Defence for a Spin
- Conscript surplus trawlers for navy
- Best to keep stiff upper lip
- For once, dithering may aid Canada
- DND, time to improve relations with the media
- 'Bad decisions' in Iraq? No kidding
- Difficult to get to bottom of sub boondoggle
- Time to admit subs were a bad bargain
- Iltis report caps rough week for military PR team
- iltis - German for "ferret"
- Personnel
- World's Ten Largest Navies
- World's Ten Largest Air Forces
- Even Harper knows Afghanistan is still unsafe
- Weighing in on military fat
- It's not about sex
- Military not to blame for missing the unimaginable
- Captain R. Semrau: Walking a Fine Line
- Army commander faces daunting challenges
- Labbe promotion a strange act for Hillier
- Natynczyk doesn't have to be Captain Canada
- Troops deserve more than red-shirted Fridays
- There's no reeling in this Big Cod
- Nation owes it to troops to ensure mission justifiable
- Hillier's position stronger after rumour of demise
- O'Connor lacked Hillier's charm
- World's Ten Largest Armies
- Segregation not always a bad thing
- Being elite pays in military
- Elite troops get more pay to stay
- Returning soldiers deserve better
- "The kind of soldier I would trust with my life"
- Great Scott
- 'Small fire' on sub doesn’t rattle top brass
- Don’t just equip JTF-2
- Individuals, not government, best fix for Katrina
- Military spin doctors tout task force exploits
- Alexander the Great has lesson for Hillier
- Military's concern over HIV on base legitimate
- Female soldier drive just futile
- Hostage bungle Chaos, not conspiracy
- Hostage in Iraq: Five days in Hell
- Col. Strome Galloway laid to rest in honour
- You be the Judge
- Politics
- Int. Conflict
- Afghanistan
- Bush's big blunder
- After 10 years, it's the last thing Afghanistan needs
- Lack of exit celebration in Kandahar indicates mission's failure
- Taliban attack proves there is no safe haven in Afghanistan
- Obama figures out the difference between al-Qaida and Taliban
- Is Afghanistan another "War that Wasn't?"
- Osama bin Laden: White House fumbles story of events
- Sarpoza Prison break proves we have lost Afghanistan
- Turkey the key to success in Afghanistan
- Beyond the headlines
- No one fights in the name of evil
- The cost of securing the Afghan/Pakistani border
- Honourable effort, dubious task
- No surprise our hands are dirty in Kandahar
- Two Nights at the Movies
- The wrong way to help Afghanistan
- Victor's justice makes fools of us all
- A waste of a "fine job"
- Lessons to learn from soldiers' sacrifices
- The war on non-terror and other tomfoolery
- A compromise called "victory"
- Terrorism redefined
- Misinformation: an insurgent's best weapon
- Don't blame Pakistan
- In a counterinsurgency, size doesn't matter
- McChrystal brings down McChrystal
- A complex and convoluted mission
- Language: Our Biggest Barrier
- Crunching the Numbers: Afghanistan's Needs
- Conspicuous Western Targets
- Trimming the Fat
- Korengal Valley FOB Under New Management
- Just Staving Off Failure
- Propping the Unelected, West-Hating Karzai
- No Justice with Karzai in Power Says Akbar Bey
- Killing Leaders Kills Negotiation Says Al-Zaeef
- Face-to-Face with an Attempted Suicide Bomber
- Fighting Corruption in Afghanistan
- Hollywood and Public Perception
- Yet Another Back-Breaking for the Taliban
- Remembering them, regardless of the season
- Detainees: Separating apples from oranges
- Scott Taylor discusses Barack Obama's Afghanistan surge
- MacKay may be out of his league
- CPAC's Afghanistan extravaganza (Town Hall)
- Soldiers should leave Afghanistan now, military journalist says
- We need someone to keep a better eye on Karzai
- Scott Taylor interviewed by CTV on Afghanistan election
- Canada condemns attack on UN target in Kabul
- Let's stop fooling ourselves...
- CTV Afghanistan:Scott Taylor
- Afghan warlord offers fashion advice
- Full Comment podcast: Afghanistan's uncertain future
- Not much to cheer about in Kandahar these days
- Only village idiot can remain hopeful in Afghanistan
- An outrageously rude guest dressed as a feminist crusader
- On Target
- The Killing Will Continue Unabated
- Hearts, Minds and Warning Shots
- Hiding the War's Cost is Not Supporting the Mission
- Building an Afghan Economy Around an Occupation
- Russian Lessons in Afghan Propaganda
- Dubious Signs of Progress in Afghanistan
- U.S. Pays for Building a House with Cards
- Press Freedom Takes Hit with U.S. Troop Increase
- Communicating with Afghans an Overdue Priority
- Who is Truly Responsible for Afghan Women Being Second-Class Citizens
- Understanding Our Cultural Divide from Afghanistan
- Afghan Law Reveals War of Values
- Canadians don’t Understand Afghan Customs and Culture
- Perpetuating Afghanistan's Cycle of Violence
- How to Fix the Afghan National Army
- Eliminating Afghan Grievances, Not Afghans With Grievances
- We Must Cut and Run From Old Afghan Plan
- It's About Time Afghan Police Get an Education
- Putting Fuel on the Afghan Drug Trade Fire
- Afghan Election Delay Another Sign of Failure
- Canada's Diminishing Role in Afghanistan Planning
- Afghan Mission: 'Really Wrapping Up' for 2011
- Afghan Peace Unlikely in Near Future: Ron Hoffman
- Heeding the Hard-Learned Lessons of Somalia
- Critics of Senlis Afghanistan report miss the mark
- Six weeks training, a badge, and an assault rifle
- Afghan mission needs big rethink
- Lewis MacKenzie's misleading calculations
- Latest Afghan attack sign of mounting problems
- How a Canuck colonel took the Taliban fight too far
- The demise of the Strategic Advisory Team
- Aid worker offers worthy advice
- Contractors thrive on Kandahar base
- Meeting General Dostum
- Outside the wire a different story
- Return to Kandahar prison
- The face of the enemy
- Interviewing the governor of Kandahar
- Crusader claims Taliban not the problem
- Reverend Bazooka, former warlord weighs in
- Ariana symptomatic of Afghanistan itself
- Seeing ourselves through Afghan eyes
- Afghanistan comes full circle as NATO seeks Russian help
- Afghans long on memory and short on forgiveness
- Shortfalls of report on Afghan mission no laughing matter
- Afghans need weapons they know how to use
- Afghans damage Leopard tank "beyond repair"
- Afghans don't have option of ignoring Iranian neighbours
- Allies are doing their part -just not in the spotlight
- Latest Taliban offensive likely launched to settle an old score
- Ottawa determined to make polls justify Afghan mission
- Credit-takers mute when it comes to Afghanistan
- Political circus comes to town in Kandahar
- Education best weapon we can give Afghans
- Tub-thumpers at DND stop drumming for now
- Council a pain to those selling Afghan war
- Afghanistan debate not helped by ludicrous analogies
- Taming Afghanistan about more than troops
- Build a real Afghan army
- Hillier, MacKenzie lend power to PM's Afghan about-face
- Canada didn't sign up to take sides in an Afghan civil war
- Let's not employ Canadian spirit in vain
- Taliban slowly adopting modern technology
- Chinooks do not make us invulnerable
- Harper needs to support Afghan self-sufficiency initiative
- Interesting view from atop Mountain overlooking Kabul
- Horrors beyond detainee abuse
- Road to Kandahar just too dangerous
- Soldiering on: Efforts to build Afghan National Army have long way to go
- Afghan warlords can't be ignored
- Visit to Kandahar prison reveals no evidence of torture
- Warrior seeks an army
- "Canadians are our enemies" Ex-Taliban talks about need for negotiations to resolve conflict
- Adaptation key in Afghanistan
- Military 'victories' don't always add up
- Time for Canada to review policy on Afghanistan
- Getting down to basics
- Defence divulgences indiscriminate
- Nothing is business as usual in Afghanistan
- Military shouldn't dismiss survey of Afghans
- In Afghanistan, clothes and beards do maketh the man
- From the ground up
- The Strategic Advisory Team
- The warlords return to Kandahar
- Kabul's Military Training Centre
- Try conquering the cultural divide
- Military passes on touching photo op
- Enemy ducked big offensive
- Is Canada at war in Afghanistan, or not?
- Military's legal team thumbs nose at Wheeler
- Debate Afghan mission
- Canadians waking up to dangers of Afghan mission
- Debating our role in Afghanistan is the patriotic thing to do
- New role in Afghanistan unclear
- Delusions of grandeur with an unhealthy overestimation
- U.S. military lets pilots like Schmidt fly above law
- Balkans
- Balkan Injustice
- Libya must determine own fate
- No leader, no problem for Libyan Rebels looking for US support
- Kosovo is no Success Story
- Kosovo Ten Years After the Bombing
- Bridging the great divide
- They've got it wrong, Kosovo's totally dependent
- Kosovo declaration spells Balkan trouble
- Canada should steer clear of Kosovo
- Balkans involvement all but forgotten
- Our Medak vets deserve justice
- Kosovo independence not so clear cut
- Ceku must face justice
- The day I convinced Milosevic
- Looking Back on 2005
- Ordinary Iraqis deserved protection
- Iraqi factions moving closer to civil war
- Man on a Mission
- Looking for peace in forgotten Kosovo
- Looking for peace in forgotten Kosovo
- Behind Bars with Slobodan Milosevic
- Tensions in Kosovo
- Extremist on UN's Payroll
- Middle East
- Crushing one monster, hatching another
- Libya was never about protecting citizens
- Seizing power at gunpoint - hardly democratic
- Victory is slippery in war-torn Libya
- Harper re-writes Libyan history
- The Libyan war is a re-run
- Dissecting NATO’s claim that Gaddafi used black African mercenaries
- Inside the last days of Gaddafi's Libya
- Libya has become a media war
- No use trusting terrorist stereotypes
- Libya: what we are really fighting for
- Big seat at an empty table
- We aren't supporting "pro-democracy forces" in Libya
- We sure know how to pick 'em
- Deteriorating mission in Libya should mark end of Canada's commitment
- Syria's lucky break
- History repeated, lessons never learned
- Bombing in Libya: A humanitarian effort?
- Time to get off the bandwagon
- Libya: Canada entering murky waters
- Don't fear the Yellow Peril
- Middle East: US not 'interested' in friends
- No reason to celebrate
- Collusion widespread between Iraqi police, insurgents
- Looking for Iraq's Next Saddam
- Battling the Scourge of Piracy
- The UK's Damaging Iraq War 'Evidence'
- Maybe we should admit mistake
- Bombings keep Turks on alert
- Kirkuk's importance not lost on U.S.
- The boy who cried wolf in Iraq is at it again in Iran
- The U.S. can attack Iraq to protect itself, but Turkey can't
- Ignatieff just wrong about Iraq
- Turks have right to fight
- Who to believe...
- Tension simmers in Kirkuk
- The seeds of hatred
- The Sky is Falling! The Sky is Falling!
- Facts coloured by patriotic hand slapping
- Harper's appeasement of Armenians comes at a cost
- Global powderkegs fuel publisher's passion: Hostage incident was sobering experience
- Send our old carriers to Iraq
- Operation Iraqi Freedom Indeed
- $5.2b mobile gun vehicles not so mobile
- Iraq: Full Spin Cycle Continues
- America stuck in Iraq, says military journalist
- Iraq's referendum: A successful exercise?
- U.S. military caught in Iraq ‘lobster trap,’ says journalist
- Turkmen add new level to Iraq fighting
- Hugo is the Boss
- U.S. boosts forces to impose freedom in Iraq
- Off-duty soldiers live in comfort: Iraq remains a dangerous place
- In Talafar, everyone knows the attack is coming
- Personal justice: To confront my torturer
- Civilians continue to suffer in Iraq
- Give the Brits back their subs
- Iraq instability threatens Turkey
- The forgotten tinderbox
- Harrowing days in Iraq
- Kidnapped by Ansar Al-Islam: How Scott Taylor Survived
- New Iraqi tune, same sour notes
- Iraq 'still mission not accomplished'
- The Secrets of Occupation: Scott Taylor on Iraq
- War journalist calls for courage in coverage
- Caucasus
- Even positive gestures can cause trouble in Caucasus
- The deep wide divides of the Caucasus
- Fun on the Russian-South Ossetian border
- The joys of travelling in the Caucasus
- Another flashpoint in the Caucasus
- The story from inside wartorn South Ossetia
- A primer on Georgia, Abkhazia and South Ossetia
- A truly significant quote gets overlooked
- Georgia shows Canada was rash on Kosovo
- A frozen conflict still simmers in Azerbaijan
- Double standard in the war on terror
- Afghanistan
- Afghanistan
- Bush's big blunder
- After 10 years, it's the last thing Afghanistan needs
- Lack of exit celebration in Kandahar indicates mission's failure
- Taliban attack proves there is no safe haven in Afghanistan
- Obama figures out the difference between al-Qaida and Taliban
- Is Afghanistan another "War that Wasn't?"
- Osama bin Laden: White House fumbles story of events
- Sarpoza Prison break proves we have lost Afghanistan
- Turkey the key to success in Afghanistan
- Beyond the headlines
- No one fights in the name of evil
- The cost of securing the Afghan/Pakistani border
- Honourable effort, dubious task
- No surprise our hands are dirty in Kandahar
- Two Nights at the Movies
- The wrong way to help Afghanistan
- Victor's justice makes fools of us all
- A waste of a "fine job"
- Lessons to learn from soldiers' sacrifices
- The war on non-terror and other tomfoolery
- A compromise called "victory"
- Terrorism redefined
- Misinformation: an insurgent's best weapon
- Don't blame Pakistan
- In a counterinsurgency, size doesn't matter
- McChrystal brings down McChrystal
- A complex and convoluted mission
- Language: Our Biggest Barrier
- Crunching the Numbers: Afghanistan's Needs
- Conspicuous Western Targets
- Trimming the Fat
- Korengal Valley FOB Under New Management
- Just Staving Off Failure
- Propping the Unelected, West-Hating Karzai
- No Justice with Karzai in Power Says Akbar Bey
- Killing Leaders Kills Negotiation Says Al-Zaeef
- Face-to-Face with an Attempted Suicide Bomber
- Fighting Corruption in Afghanistan
- Hollywood and Public Perception
- Yet Another Back-Breaking for the Taliban
- Remembering them, regardless of the season
- Detainees: Separating apples from oranges
- Scott Taylor discusses Barack Obama's Afghanistan surge
- MacKay may be out of his league
- CPAC's Afghanistan extravaganza (Town Hall)
- Soldiers should leave Afghanistan now, military journalist says
- We need someone to keep a better eye on Karzai
- Scott Taylor interviewed by CTV on Afghanistan election
- Canada condemns attack on UN target in Kabul
- Let's stop fooling ourselves...
- CTV Afghanistan:Scott Taylor
- Afghan warlord offers fashion advice
- Full Comment podcast: Afghanistan's uncertain future
- Not much to cheer about in Kandahar these days
- Only village idiot can remain hopeful in Afghanistan
- An outrageously rude guest dressed as a feminist crusader
- On Target
- The Killing Will Continue Unabated
- Hearts, Minds and Warning Shots
- Hiding the War's Cost is Not Supporting the Mission
- Building an Afghan Economy Around an Occupation
- Russian Lessons in Afghan Propaganda
- Dubious Signs of Progress in Afghanistan
- U.S. Pays for Building a House with Cards
- Press Freedom Takes Hit with U.S. Troop Increase
- Communicating with Afghans an Overdue Priority
- Who is Truly Responsible for Afghan Women Being Second-Class Citizens
- Understanding Our Cultural Divide from Afghanistan
- Afghan Law Reveals War of Values
- Canadians don’t Understand Afghan Customs and Culture
- Perpetuating Afghanistan's Cycle of Violence
- How to Fix the Afghan National Army
- Eliminating Afghan Grievances, Not Afghans With Grievances
- We Must Cut and Run From Old Afghan Plan
- It's About Time Afghan Police Get an Education
- Putting Fuel on the Afghan Drug Trade Fire
- Afghan Election Delay Another Sign of Failure
- Canada's Diminishing Role in Afghanistan Planning
- Afghan Mission: 'Really Wrapping Up' for 2011
- Afghan Peace Unlikely in Near Future: Ron Hoffman
- Heeding the Hard-Learned Lessons of Somalia
- Critics of Senlis Afghanistan report miss the mark
- Six weeks training, a badge, and an assault rifle
- Afghan mission needs big rethink
- Lewis MacKenzie's misleading calculations
- Latest Afghan attack sign of mounting problems
- How a Canuck colonel took the Taliban fight too far
- The demise of the Strategic Advisory Team
- Aid worker offers worthy advice
- Contractors thrive on Kandahar base
- Meeting General Dostum
- Outside the wire a different story
- Return to Kandahar prison
- The face of the enemy
- Interviewing the governor of Kandahar
- Crusader claims Taliban not the problem
- Reverend Bazooka, former warlord weighs in
- Ariana symptomatic of Afghanistan itself
- Seeing ourselves through Afghan eyes
- Afghanistan comes full circle as NATO seeks Russian help
- Afghans long on memory and short on forgiveness
- Shortfalls of report on Afghan mission no laughing matter
- Afghans need weapons they know how to use
- Afghans damage Leopard tank "beyond repair"
- Afghans don't have option of ignoring Iranian neighbours
- Allies are doing their part -just not in the spotlight
- Latest Taliban offensive likely launched to settle an old score
- Ottawa determined to make polls justify Afghan mission
- Credit-takers mute when it comes to Afghanistan
- Political circus comes to town in Kandahar
- Education best weapon we can give Afghans
- Tub-thumpers at DND stop drumming for now
- Council a pain to those selling Afghan war
- Afghanistan debate not helped by ludicrous analogies
- Taming Afghanistan about more than troops
- Build a real Afghan army
- Hillier, MacKenzie lend power to PM's Afghan about-face
- Canada didn't sign up to take sides in an Afghan civil war
- Let's not employ Canadian spirit in vain
- Taliban slowly adopting modern technology
- Chinooks do not make us invulnerable
- Harper needs to support Afghan self-sufficiency initiative
- Interesting view from atop Mountain overlooking Kabul
- Horrors beyond detainee abuse
- Road to Kandahar just too dangerous
- Soldiering on: Efforts to build Afghan National Army have long way to go
- Afghan warlords can't be ignored
- Visit to Kandahar prison reveals no evidence of torture
- Warrior seeks an army
- "Canadians are our enemies" Ex-Taliban talks about need for negotiations to resolve conflict
- Adaptation key in Afghanistan
- Military 'victories' don't always add up
- Time for Canada to review policy on Afghanistan
- Getting down to basics
- Defence divulgences indiscriminate
- Nothing is business as usual in Afghanistan
- Military shouldn't dismiss survey of Afghans
- In Afghanistan, clothes and beards do maketh the man
- From the ground up
- The Strategic Advisory Team
- The warlords return to Kandahar
- Kabul's Military Training Centre
- Try conquering the cultural divide
- Military passes on touching photo op
- Enemy ducked big offensive
- Is Canada at war in Afghanistan, or not?
- Military's legal team thumbs nose at Wheeler
- Debate Afghan mission
- Canadians waking up to dangers of Afghan mission
- Debating our role in Afghanistan is the patriotic thing to do
- New role in Afghanistan unclear
- Delusions of grandeur with an unhealthy overestimation
- U.S. military lets pilots like Schmidt fly above law
- Balkans
- Balkan Injustice
- Libya must determine own fate
- No leader, no problem for Libyan Rebels looking for US support
- Kosovo is no Success Story
- Kosovo Ten Years After the Bombing
- Bridging the great divide
- They've got it wrong, Kosovo's totally dependent
- Kosovo declaration spells Balkan trouble
- Canada should steer clear of Kosovo
- Balkans involvement all but forgotten
- Our Medak vets deserve justice
- Kosovo independence not so clear cut
- Ceku must face justice
- The day I convinced Milosevic
- Looking Back on 2005
- Ordinary Iraqis deserved protection
- Iraqi factions moving closer to civil war
- Man on a Mission
- Looking for peace in forgotten Kosovo
- Looking for peace in forgotten Kosovo
- Behind Bars with Slobodan Milosevic
- Tensions in Kosovo
- Extremist on UN's Payroll
- Middle East
- Crushing one monster, hatching another
- Libya was never about protecting citizens
- Seizing power at gunpoint - hardly democratic
- Victory is slippery in war-torn Libya
- Harper re-writes Libyan history
- The Libyan war is a re-run
- Dissecting NATO’s claim that Gaddafi used black African mercenaries
- Inside the last days of Gaddafi's Libya
- Libya has become a media war
- No use trusting terrorist stereotypes
- Libya: what we are really fighting for
- Big seat at an empty table
- We aren't supporting "pro-democracy forces" in Libya
- We sure know how to pick 'em
- Deteriorating mission in Libya should mark end of Canada's commitment
- Syria's lucky break
- History repeated, lessons never learned
- Bombing in Libya: A humanitarian effort?
- Time to get off the bandwagon
- Libya: Canada entering murky waters
- Don't fear the Yellow Peril
- Middle East: US not 'interested' in friends
- No reason to celebrate
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