David Redman

David Redman is a retired lieutenant colonel in the Canadian Army and senior fellow at the Frontier Centre for Public Policy.

The US Has a National Security Strategy. Where’s Canada’s?

The new U.S. national security strategy is about action, not talk. Continued complacency risks making Canada irrelevant—or worse.

Viewpoints January 10, 2026
Ottawa’s Newly Released Defence Plan Crosses a Dangerous Line

The new defence plan looks simple on paper. The risks are anything but.

Viewpoints December 1, 2025
Unfit for Duty, Part III: Roadmap to Rebuilding the Canadian Armed Forces

Part I can be read here, and Part II here. Commentary The Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) stand at ...

Viewpoints December 27, 2024
Unfit for Duty, Part II: What the Canadian Armed Forces Needs to Rebuild

Part I Can be read here, and Part III here. Commentary For a time in the 2010s, it ...

Viewpoints December 26, 2024
Unfit for Duty, Part I: The Decline of the Canadian Armed Forces

Part II can be read here, and Part III here. Commentary National security is the bedrock upon which ...

Viewpoints December 25, 2024
Remembrance Day: Rebuilding Canada’s Military

Commentary In Flanders fields the poppies blow/ Between the crosses, row on row, ... If ye break faith ...

Viewpoints November 9, 2023

The US Has a National Security Strategy. Where’s Canada’s?