National Defence committee  Thank you, sir. I would propose that you have a defence engagement program that is built around a defence think tank where you bring together academics, policy-makers with practitioner experience, and people like me who have been both. Most of your senior NATO allies have similar

National Defence committee  Thank you, sir. I'm currently about to publish a major report with General John Allen and Ambassador Sandy Vershbow on these issues of NATO adaptation. It will come out later in November. One of the issues we suggest is that it's reasonable for the United States to expect that

National Defence committee  The first thing I'd recommend is that you read the new paper “Future War NATO?”, which just came out this week. It is on the GLOBSEC website. We go into great depth about this. I think it's important for Canada to understand that hybrid warfare, cyberwarfare, and what's been cal

National Defence committee  I can send them to the clerk.

National Defence committee  Yes. Thank you, sir. My main point is that your assumptions are still based on the idea that the United States will always be there as an effective first responder when a crisis happens in the Euro-Atlantic area. My analysis, and that of my senior colleagues, is that there could

National Defence committee  That's right, sir. NATO will have to be an effective first responder to keep the Americans strong where they need to be strong. Now, I can foresee scenarios where the only global power is America, but it's very overstretched. I work closely with the Americans. They tell me this a

National Defence committee  Yes.

National Defence committee  I don't, bluntly—

National Defence committee  —because other countries can do the same thing.

National Defence committee  I value Canadians, but the bottom line is that if you are not equipping your forces with the kind of capabilities that are being developed elsewhere, you are in effect asking your young people out there to close a gap between what's on the other side of the border and what you're

National Defence committee  But they do have that kind of influence. Nothing happens in NATO without the Americans.

National Defence committee  Thank you, Chair. Good evening from the Netherlands. In this, your Veterans' Week, let me first congratulate Canada for its historic contribution to the freedom of Europe and for its continuing defence. The other day at Camp Adazi in Latvia, close to the Russian border, I saw f