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The Canada First Defence Strategy (CFDS) was the military recruitment, procurement, and improvement strategy of the former Canadian government of Stephen Harper to improve the overall effectiveness of the Canadian Forces. The strategy aimed to enforce Arctic sovereignty with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and the Canadian Coast Guard.
In 2017, a new defence policy framework, entitled Strong, Secure and Engaged, was unveiled which promised significantly greater resources for the Surface Combatant Project - i.e. in the range of $60 billion. By 2021, the Parliamentary Budget Officer estimated the cost for the program of 15 Type 26 ships as $77.3 billion, "rising to $79.7 ...
The review aimed to consult with Canadians across the country in order to develop a future road map for Canada's defence policy. In June 2017, it was released as "Strong, Secure, Engaged." [17] In 2016, Graham published an autobiography, Call of the World: A Political Memoir, reprinted in paperback in 2018. [18]
Under the Justin Trudeau government's defence policy paper, Strong Secure Engaged (2017), the operational life of each Victoria-class boat was to be extended by one additional "life-cycle" (or by about eight years). [43] This was designed to permit the operation of the fleet into about the early to mid-2030s.
Peter Juul, director of national security at the Progressive Policy Institute, a center-left think tank, said the defense budget should increase given the dangerous state of the world, even though ...
It was intended to retain the "mid-lifed" vessels through 2045–2055. While the RCN concluded that the money would be better spent in acquiring a new platform, the Liberal Government's 2017 defence policy statement, Strong, Secure and Engaged, did not reference replacing these vessels. The RCN review listed low speed and small size as reasons ...
He served as Trump's deputy assistant secretary of defense for strategy and force development from 2017 to 2018. Colby made a similar point about TSMC in another X post earlier this year.
LONDON — The world is entering a “third nuclear age,” the head of the British armed forces has warned, with world-ending weapons once again spreading globally and international agreements to ...