Photograph of Toronto police officers by katerkate

The Thin Blue Line, Then and Now

January 29, 2015November 20, 2019 - by Christopher D. Lewis

Mission creep from a veteran cop’s point of view

December 2014 / Feature

Armed and Dangerous

December 20, 2014August 5, 2016 - by John Lorinc

How mission creep is turning our cops into warriors

April 2014 / World

Military Surplus

March 17, 2014January 7, 2020 - by May Jeong

Canadian troops in Afghanistan pack up the war

Memoir / October 2013

Afghanistan Undone

October 11, 2013July 1, 2016 - by Mellissa Fung

A journalist returns to the fragile country five years after she was kidnapped

October 2013 / World

Armed Drones

September 24, 2013July 7, 2016 - by Janice Gross Stein

In February 2002, the CIA sent an armed drone into Afghanistan’s Paktika province to target three men. The men killed turned out to be innocent villagers collecting scrap metal. One …

Captured Canadian troops are marched through the streets of Dieppe, following Operation Jubilee

Feature / September 2012

Deconstructing Dieppe

September 12, 2012October 1, 2018 - by Nathan M. Greenfield

Seventy years ago, Canada suffered 3,367 casualties in a battle whose name remains a metaphor for military disaster

April 2012 / Feature

War Games

April 12, 2012September 12, 2017 - by Noah Richler

Soldiers, not peacekeepers, are the heroes of the new Canada. How 9/11 changed the way we talk about our troops—and how we see ourselves

July/August 2011 / Photography

Portraits of the War

July 12, 2011May 1, 2017 - by Joanne Tod

Remembering the Canadians lost in the Afghanistan war

December 2010 / Feature

Last Stand in Kandahar

December 12, 2010October 10, 2019 - by Matthieu Aikins

Can the military’s massive counterinsurgency gamble salvage the Afghan war?

November 2009 / World

Lessons Learned

November 18, 2009October 11, 2019 - by Graeme Wood

Captain Faizullah and Warrant Officer Guillaume “Ti-Will” Ouellet / Photograph by Graeme Wood The afghan called Teacher is deep in Taliban country, crouching halfway up a mountainside at dawn, listening …