About the Author
 
David Pugliese, a journalist with the Ottawa Citizen newspaper, has been writing about military affairs and the Canadian Armed Forces since 1982. His reporting on defence issues earned him a National Newspaper Award in 2002.
In the mid-1980s Pugliese was a correspondent for the Washington-based Armed Forces Journal International. Since 1990, in addition to his work at the Ottawa Citizen, Pugliese has been a correspondent for the U.S. publication Defense News.
His freelance articles on military issues have appeared in more than a dozen publications, including The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, Training and Simulation Journal, Intelligence Surveillance and Reconnaissance Journal, International Combat Arms, National Defense magazine, Saturday Night magazine and the Financial Times. He has provided commentary on defence issues for Global National, Global Sunday, CTV News, CTV'S Canada AM, the CBC National and Newsworld, CBC Radio's Morningside, the BBC and RTE (Irish Radio).
 
 
 
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