Episodes
Mar 04 2008 - International Women’s Day meditation: Fundamentalism, secularism, church and state
Secularism in the United States arose in the service of religious freedom and expressed itself in the Constitutional mandate for the separation of church and state. Have we outgrown the needs that gave rise to these compromises?
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Feb 26 2008 - Canada’s secret weather and war
How does Conservative information policy, with its predisposition to crack down and provide "approved lines," interact with the secret war we continue to learn about? Canada's Chief of Defence Staff General Rick Hillier has the last word.
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Feb 19 2008 - Can NATO bring peace to Afghanistan?
The panel on Canada's future role in Afghanistan has recommended that our allies provide an additional 1000 troops in the south. But it's clear from testimony by the American commander of the mission that this won't be even close to enough. And that's not the only reason to suspect that NATO may not have what it takes to make peace in Afghanistan.
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Jan 28 2008 - Changing military doctrine: A review of Neither Shall the Sword
Neither Shall the Sword, the monograph on Fourth Generation Warfare by Colonel Chet Richards USAF (ret), is now available as a book. World Report reviews this brief introduction to current thinking about military reform. Richards' contribution to a growing literature in which members of the military criticize a contemporary war, is "honest, well-documented, easy to understand, carefully reasoned, thought-provoking, and well-written."
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