Finland is set to join NATO following ratification of its membership by the Turkish government — the last holdout among the 30 nations in the military alliance.

Three new public opinion surveys suggest Canadians are growing more concerned about the state of the country's military — and about Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump's threats to...

The cost to build the navy's often-delayed, long-anticipated supply ships has shot up once again — this time by almost $1 billion — the federal procurement department announced Friday.

The self-proclaimed president of Afghanistan and co-leader of the anti-Taliban resistance has made a direct appeal to Canadians — and by extension the West — not to give up on his country or its...

Canada, Germany and Norway are discussing the possibility of a trilateral defence and security partnership covering the North Atlantic and the Arctic — an arrangement that could be broader and deeper...

The Canadian military is expecting to get a new top commander on July 18, 2024. Who it will be appears to be anybody’s guess at this point — and even the current chief of the defence staff says he...

The Canadian military has tightened up regulations on personal grooming after getting an earful from members who were not happy with the relaxed standards introduced almost two years ago.

During a surprise visit to Kyiv, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced $500 million more in Canadian military aid Saturday and met with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy as Ukraine has stepped up its...

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau met Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy early Sunday on the margins of the Group of Seven summit, CBC's Murray Brewster reports from Hiroshima, Japan.

More than a year and a half after receiving proposals to ramp production of artillery shells, the Canadian government is still debating whether to make investments in plants in Quebec and Ontario....

Thanks to the pandemic, Canadians can't visit in person the nation's Books of Remembrance, where the names of those who died serving this country are recorded. But those who lost their lives during...

After more than two decades of debate, Canada’s air force finally has a green light to acquire armed drones.

Listen to Pierre Poilievre list his top priorities — cutting taxes, building homes, reducing the federal budget and fighting crime — and you won't hear a specific mention of Canada's military.

The Canadian Army learned two valuable lessons Friday: appreciation of art is in the eye of the beholder and it pays to be precise, even on social media.

Only 58 per cent of the Canadian Armed Forces would be able to respond if called upon in a crisis by NATO allies right now — and almost half of the military's equipment is considered "unavailable and...

The United States, Canada and Finland have entered into a trilateral pact to build icebreakers for the Arctic region, the three countries said in a joint statement Thursday on the sidelines of the...

Thousands of Ukrainian civilians are being detained across Russia and the Ukrainian territories it occupies, in centers ranging from brand-new wings in Russian prisons to clammy basements.

Three former federal cabinet ministers have confirmed they spoke to Vice-Admiral Mark Norman’s defence team about information that may have been key to the Crown’s decision to halt the criminal...

Canada's pattern, said outgoing chief of the defence staff Gen. Wayne Eyre, is to go into every war unprepared and underequipped. That pattern has killed Canadian soldiers in the past. Can it be...

Canadian troops in Latvia have been buying their own ballistic helmets with better ear protection and are looking at their allies with envy as Danish soldiers arrive with more modern Canadian-made...

A leading member of the Ukrainian parliament delivered stark warnings to Canadian politicians and top defence officials this week in a series of mostly under-the-radar meetings in Ottawa ahead of the...

Canadian troops in Latvia will soon be protected by a $227 million Swedish-designed short-range anti-aircraft system, Defence Minister Bill Blair announced Thursday in Brussels as NATO allies met to...

The prime ministers of three leading western democracies met at a Royal Air Force base to discuss what sort of firm humanitarian action can be taken to ease the suffering of the Ukrainian people as...

The Liberal government is looking to cut almost $1 billion from the annual budget of the Department of National Defence — a demand the country’s top military commander says is prompting some “diffi...

Inarguably bigger and more seasoned than it was when it was born from the ashes of the Second World War, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization — the West’s great military alliance — celebrated a...

A House of Commons committee is calling on the federal government to consider creating a permanent disaster management workforce that can be mobilized quickly in the event of wildfires, hurricanes...

Vice-Admiral Mark Norman not only had the blessing of the former Conservative cabinet to deal with a Quebec shipyard, he was authorized to speak with it directly in the run-up to the signing of a...

More than 60 of this country's former top security officials, military commanders and politicians — along with a former top Supreme Court justice — have signed an open letter imploring the Liberal...

One of the country's leading business voices is warning that Canada faces "diplomatic isolation" if it's not prepared to deliver a concrete plan next month to raise defence spending to meet NATO's...

More than 500 days after Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the embattled country’s political leaders say they expect Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to be in their corner at next...

With absolutely no exceptions, every defence policy presented by the Canadian government over the past five decades has presented a vision of the world beyond our borders going to hell in a handbas...

Two years after being ordered on an urgent basis, a new defence policy for Canada that promises to bolster the military's surveillance and combat capabilities in the Arctic was unveiled Monday.

Canada has more at stake than meets the eye in the long, drawn-out geopolitical drama over Sweden's bid to join NATO.

The Liberal government has launched its long-awaited review of sexual misconduct in the military by appointing former supreme court justice Louise Arbour to head the investigation.

Canada’s top military commander is headed for the exit. Gen. Wayne Eyre, chief of the defence staff, has confirmed he plans to retire, the Prime Minister’s Office said in a media statement on Friday.

NATO leaders meeting in an emergency session in Brussels Thursday heard a punchy, frustrated appeal from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenksy for "effective and unrestricted" support to his...

It has been 80 years since Canadian, American and British troops stormed the beaches of Normandy for the D-Day invasion — a pivotal event that led to the eventual downfall of Nazi Germany. Through...

A former soldier whose bravery in Afghanistan almost 17 years ago won him Canada's second-highest citation for bravery in combat — the Star of Military Valour — has died.

The federal government has introduced long-awaited legislation to strip military police and the military justice system of the power to investigate and prosecute sexual offences on Canadian soil.

The cost of the Liberal government’s nearly seven-year-old marquee defence plan has jumped by over $50 billion — mostly due to anticipated work on modernizing continental defence and delays in...

Across Europe, military leaders are warning that the security climate on the continent has changed radically — and a wider land war is now a possibility. Are European leaders listening? What about...

Over the past three decades or more, Canada has suffered from a deep identity crisis whenever it has been confronted with the messy, brutal foreign wars raging in far-flung parts of this troubled...

There was a revelatory moment on the weekend as Defence Minister Bill Blair attempted to bridge the gap between rhetoric and reality over the Liberal government’s spending plans for his department...

Thirty years ago this week, Canadian soldiers on a peacekeeping mission fought a pitched battle against Croatian forces near the town of Medak in the former Yugoslavia. Today, military members marked...

It's a phenomenon that Canada hasn't seen much of since the Spanish Civil War — Canadians volunteering to risk their lives for another country, and for a cause.

The strategic port city – synonymous with shattered buildings and thousands of deaths – finally fell under Russian control this week. But that’s not all Mariupol is or was. Former residents reflect...

Soon-to-be retired members of the Canadian military are facing a wait of up to four months for severance and accumulated vacation payouts — just the latest obstacle facing soldiers, sailors and...

Canada's air force will have to wait a few extra years to get the armed drones it has been promised for more than a decade — because, among other things, the pilotless aircraft require special...

Three distinguished former task force commanders from Canada's war in Afghanistan have written an urgent appeal to the immigration minister to restart a resettlement program for local interpreters...

Canada’s military watchdog used what could be one of his last appearances before a House of Commons committee on Monday to renew a push to make his office fully independent from the Department of...

An embarrassing multi-million-dollar accounting error that was covered up for years at Veterans Affairs Canada will end up costing taxpayers almost $1 billion now that a Federal Court judge has...

Canada has signalled it’s prepared to get behind a Czech Republic initiative to ship tens of thousands of artillery shells from different countries to Ukraine on an urgent basis.

The Canadian military could have modern satellite coverage in the Arctic a decade earlier than envisioned if the federal government is willing to follow the example of other countries and embrace...

Using newly restored and rarely-seen footage from the CBC archives, The National takes you back to D-Day, revealing the dramatic timeline of events in a mome...

The prime minister’s chief adviser was aware of allegations of “personal misconduct” involving the country’s former top military commander, a House of Commons committee was told today.

For decades, national security has been an afterthought for federal governments of all stripes. The problem, say the experts, is that Canadians themselves tend not to take their security seriously —...

The first 16 of the air force’s new F-35 fighters will be paid for out of the current federal budget, even though Canada isn’t expected to take delivery of the warplanes until 2026.

Sweden's flag was officially unfurled at NATO headquarters Monday — a significant moment for the western military alliance and for Canada in particular.

Just over a month into the new fiscal year and two weeks after the federal budget, the Department of National Defence is struggling to reconcile the Liberal government's approach to military funding...

The Liberal government’s recent activation of 3,400 soldiers, sailors and aircrew for duty with the NATO Response Force (NRF) has exposed some of the major shortfalls facing the Canadian military in...

There was an unscripted moment during a panel debate in Toronto last month that could go a long way toward explaining Canada's long-term reluctance to publicly and wholeheartedly embrace NATO's...

The air force is worried about keeping the aging weapons systems aboard its CH-148 Cyclones operational into the future, according to leaked documents obtained by CBC News.

"This is a moment for us to both thank Ukraine and demonstrate our solidarity," Trudeau said.

As Canada's war in Afghanistan was winding down, the federal government drafted a plan to rebuild and re-equip an exhausted Canadian Armed Forces. More than 10 years later, the government is still...

Don Levers is wrestling with an extraordinary number of "what-ifs" as he takes his family on a personal pilgrimage to the beaches of Normandy to find the spot where his father was wounded 80 years...

We have a problem with talking about war in this country. That might be a strange sentiment to convey on Remembrance Day, but it is informed by so much history — recent and ancient, on and off the...

It would be a gross overstatement to say there's a wedge developing between Defence Minister Bill Blair and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on defence spending. But recent polls suggest there may be a...

It's the favourite parlour game of the parliamentary precinct — predicting which powerful figure is going where and why. Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland finds herself at the centre of speculation...

Germany’s defence minister acknowledged Friday that countries like Canada — and to a lesser extent Ukraine — are in a tough spot when it comes to maintaining older variants of the Leopard 2 main...

Canada's pre-war training mission helped Ukraine abandon the old Soviet playbook for fighting wars — a fact that could help explain why the war has gone so badly for Moscow.

NATO defence ministers have asked military commanders to draw up plans for a significantly larger long-term deployment of western forces in eastern Europe, the secretary general of the alliance said...

A Canadian military surveillance aircraft monitoring United Nations sanctions was harassed in international airspace off North Korea by the Chinese military — part of “a pattern of behaviour that’s...

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau heads to Washington today for a meeting of NATO nations — where he's widely expected to hear some tough talk from allies behind closed doors about his government's ref...

Newly revised economic data suggests Canada's pledge to bring its defence spending closer to NATO's benchmark is coming off the rails already, a House of Commons committee heard Monday.

An understated ceremony was held in Ottawa to mark to the 10th anniversary of the final withdrawal of Canadian troops from Afghanistan. It was part remembrance and part soul-searching as soldiers and...

A House of Commons committee heard a deeply personal story today of how the military's sexist double-standard on fraternization cut short the career of an accomplished woman — while a high-ranking...

The Pentagon has released an updated Arctic strategy that warns of low-level Russian 'destabilizing' activities in the Far North aimed at the United States, Canada and its allies.

Federal Conservatives made a pitch Friday — in the wake of the SNC Lavalin affair — to turn the criminal case against Vice-Admiral Mark Norman into the spinoff political scandal of the spring.

Canada gave Kyiv a draft of its proposed security assurances plan for Ukraine this past week — a major event in Ukrainian news media circles that passed without comment in Ottawa.