About David Pugliese

David Pugliese, a reporter with the Ottawa Citizen newspaper, has been writing about military affairs and the Canadian Armed Forces since 1982. His reporting on defence issues have earned him three National Newspaper Awards.

Since 1990, in addition to his work at the Ottawa Citizen, Pugliese has been a correspondent for the U.S. publication Defense News.

Pugliese’s freelance articles on military issues have appeared in more than a dozen publications, including International Combat Arms, The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, Training and Simulation Journal, Intelligence Surveillance and Reconnaissance Journal, National Defense magazine, Saturday Night magazine and the Financial Times. He has provided commentary on defence issues for Global National, Global Sunday, the BBC, CTV News, CTV’S Canada AM, the CBC National and Newsworld, CBC Radio’s Morningside, and RTE (Irish Radio).