Security Principal (Kingston, Ont.)
Earned a Ph.D. in nuclear engineering from the University of London. He served in the Canadian military for several decades, was Director of Curriculum Planning and Deputy Commandant at the National Defence College of Canada, and has directed a MA program at the Royal Military College. Fellow of World Academy of Art and Science and recent Chair of Canadian Pugwash.
The third Newslitter, slated for 2023’s summer, was to focus on AI’s global uproar. However, due to many large language models, a new theme was required. A New York Times article inspired a focus on “unprecedentedness”, leading to the title “2023: A Year of Peak Unprecedentedness”.
Welcome to SSG February NewsLitter, written by a news-wonk who is ever less certain about what he knows…let alone all he can not. December intentions for this second offering...
Welcome to the FIRST monthly SSG newslitter from the Security Principal. Yes ‘newslitter’. So much is happening, and at such pace, that the news each day is akin to wind-blown...
Download as PDF Introduction The war for Ukraine continues making the transition to the next global ‘normal’ more complicated, more chronologically unpredictable, and more...
Introduction The war for Ukraine has made the transition to the next global ‘normal’ overwhelmingly intense, chronologically unpredictable, and massively costly. Never before...
First published Dec. 14th 2020. Provocation The global pandemic was declared by the WHO on 11 March, signalling that COVID-19 had or was about to reach all shores. Since then,...
Suddenly, and now for nearly two months, everyone on earth knows what the issue is: COVID -19. The massive majority of humanity were given no choice but to ‘know’ they had to do...
The full Essay has been published in Cadmus Journal Vol. 3, Issue 3 (p. 113-121) and is available here: Foresight’s FOUR Frames (October 2017) Abstract Strategic Foresight is...