CIDP Fellow and host of today's episode H. Christian Breede is joined by our guest Commander Peter MacNeil (Commanding Officer, HMCS Ville de Québec) to discuss his experience on the sea, what leadership means to him, and the influence technology has on strategy and planning.

Commander Peter MacNeil grew up in a small town in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. He joined the Canadian Armed Forces as a Naval Warfare Officer in August 2001. Upon completion of the Fleet Navigating Officer(FNO) course, Commander MacNeil served as Navigating Officer in HMCS Montréal, Weapons Officer and Combat Officer in HMCS Halifax, and Combat Officer in HMCS Iroquois for her final Tiered Readiness Programme to High Readiness, including Iroquois' final Standard Missile firing in 2012. In 2018 Commander MacNeil received his first command, in HMCS Glace Bay. This was followed by an appointment as Executive Officer and then Commanding Officer of HMCS Charlottetown, and in 2024, he was appointed Commanding Officer of HMCS Ville de Québec, a position he still holds today.

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Host Michael P.A. Murphy is joined by our guests Simon J. Smith and Christoph Harig, both associate professors at the Royal Danish Defence College. Simon is the Editor in Chief at the Defence Studies journal and Christoph is Chief Editor at the Scandinavian Journal of Military Studies.

Defence Studies:https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/fdef20/about-this-journal#aims-and-scope

Scandinavian Journal of Military Studies (SJMS):https://sjms.nu/

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Host Col Nicolas Gauthier is joined by today’s guest and CIDP Fellow H. Christian Breede. What role does the leader character play in the profession of arms? Nick and Christian discuss the role of leadership as central to the creation of healthy, high-performance teams.

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Host Katherine Rossy joins guest and CIDP Director Michael Murphy to discuss his trajectory to the role of director, new research paths (including the importance of quantum technology in security and defence) and plans for the centre over the next year and beyond.

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Visiting Defence Fellow and host of today's episode LTC Drew Lanier is joined by CIDP Fellow Grace Scoppio to discuss her research team’s project on collecting stories of immigrant military service members and sharing insights and opportunities for the Canadian Armed Forces.

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CIDP Fellow and host of today's episode H. Christian Breede is joined by our guest Major-General Greg Smith (Director General, International Security Policy, Department of National Defence) to discuss Canada's Indo-Pacific Strategy, and, as a former CIDP visiting defence fellow, reminisce on his experience in the role at the Centre.

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Host Pierre Jolicoeur is joined by our guest Keir Giles (Researcher in Russian Power Projection) to discuss his latest book “Who Will Defend Europe?”, where he talks Trump/Putin parallels, and given the rhetoric around the 51st state ponders the question “who will defend Canada?”

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Host Amar Amarasingam is joined by guest Kacper Rekawek, Senior Research Fellow and Programme Lead at The International Centre for Counter-Terrorism (ICCT), as they discuss Russia, Ukraine and the second Trump term.

Book: https://www.routledge.com/Foreign-Fighters-in-Ukraine-The-Brown-Red-Cocktail/Rekawek/p/book/9781032043982?srsltid=AfmBOop_80Z5RcbqGjuLOcwnIBIy81kdqmpma1TKuA0jVKOmB6V-M1zM

Publication: https://icct.nl/publication/people-are-still-fighting-lack-change-foreign-fighters-ukraine

At the 2025 Pedagogy Symposium in Toronto, ON host Yolande Bouka (Political Studies, Queen's University) met up with Dr. Leigh Spanner to discuss her research on military families in the CAF and her applied teaching methods.

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