Canada’s combat cupboard is empty

Meanwhile, we’re aiming to ramp up artillery shell production sometime next fall, and our battle group in Latvia is going to freeze their asses off in dune buggies during a cold, damp Baltic winter.
On the modern battlefield, the M777 howitzer Canada has given to the Ukrainian war effort is the wrong weapon system, writes Scott Taylor.

OTTAWA—It has been two-and-a-half years since Russian President Vladimir Putin did the unthinkable and formally invaded Ukraine.

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