Canada has a role in Arctic security amid nuclear arms dilemma

Canada must energetically maintain its security solidarity with the U.S. and make defence decisions and expenditures that support nuclear deterrence and not nuclear warfighting.
A CC-177 Globemaster arrives in Resolute Bay, Nunavut, with members from 38 Canadian Brigade Group participating in Exercise Arctic Ram on Feb. 13, 2016. Canada must ensure it is ready and able to provide kinetic force to stop any form of Russian use of force, writes Rob Huebert.
A new strategic weapon environment is emerging that has enormous impacts for the long-term security of the Canadian Arctic and Canadian security in general. Decisions are now being taken by the great powers that are transforming the accepted role of nuclear weapons as deterring great power war into ...

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