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Andrew Latham

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Saint Paul
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Covers:  International security; regional conflict; US defense policy; Canadian foreign and defense policy
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I am a professor of international relations and political theory at Macalester College in Saint Paul, MN; a Senior Fellow with the Institute for Peace and Diplomacy, Ottawa, Canada; a Non-Resident Fellow at the think tank Defense Priorities in Washington, DC; and a regular opinion contributor with The Hill, also in Washington, DC.

I regularly offer commentary and analysis on issues related to great power rivalry, US foreign and defense policy, Sino-American relations, and conflict in the Middle…

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Canada Keeps Asking Whether It Needs Aircraft Carriers. It’s the Wrong Question

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By Andrew Latham
| 19FortyFive Verified
What if Canada had aircraft carriers in 2026? It would look impressive. It would visit useful ports and let ministers speak. It would also do little to address the waters where Canada’s security is most exposed. That is the trouble with the renewed question about aircraft carriers. Canada did have carriers during the Cold War. HMCS Bonaventure, the last of them, was paid off in 1970. The memory has a pull in a country that has spent decades shrinking its military ambitions.
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Canada Wants to Fly Both the Lockheed F-35 and Saab JAS 39 Gripen. The Math Says That Buys Less, Not More

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By Andrew Latham
| 19FortyFive Verified
Summary and Key Points: Canada signed a 2023 program for 88 Lockheed Martin F-35A fighters, with the first jet due at Luke Air Force Base later this year and Canadian delivery expected in 2028. A government review has kept the door open to a mixed fleet that would add Saab’s Swedish-built Gripen, and Saab’s position strengthened when NATO announced negotiations for up to ten more of its GlobalEye aircraft at the July summit in Ankara.
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Canada’s Type 212CD Submarine Purchase from Germany Was Correct. Now Ottawa Needs to Decide What to Do With Them

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By Andrew Latham
| 19FortyFive Verified
Canada has finally picked a submarine that matches the geography it has to defend. That should not sound like a triumph. It should sound like a country belatedly admitting that three oceans, an opening Arctic, and a harsher security environment cannot be covered by slogans, patrols, and a navy kept alive by patience. Ottawa’s decision to select Germany’s TKMS as preferred supplier for the Canadian Patrol Submarine Project is, on balance, the right one.
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