The threat of hypersonics is not hyperbole

If we want to retain the agency to decide where to position the slider between cost and risk, we need to start planning and growing our hypersonic capabilities; otherwise, we will be forced to don an expensive, gilded dome that symbolizes dependence, not sovereignty.
Researchers with the NASA-funded ICESCAPE mission examine melt ponds in the Arctic Ocean in July 2011.

In a multilateral world of peace and global stability, Canada has succeeded in advancing its shared values and interests. Within this context we have never had the need, or maybe ambition, to spend on defence. The geopolitical landscape is now changing.

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