Commentary
It is of course good news that the Canadian government intends to do something serious about defence. It’s not so good that a great many commentators mistook the announcement for the achievement, given our government’s crumbling capacity to do anything. But before I get near the specifics, let me emphasize the urgent necessity of rearming intellectually. If we don’t understand that the world is a dangerous place where we have real enemies, we’re very likely to come up with a defence plan that spends a lot of money on anything and everything except a real, effective capacity to break things and hurt people.
