Dr. Ann Griffiths, 13 July 2021 An interesting (and somewhat puzzling) article was published in early 2021 in Australia’s defence forum The Forge. The article was written by Darin MacDonald and was entitled “JPME With a Purpose: Breaking Through the Mythology” The author is a former RCN member who is […]
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Brian Bertosa, 27 April 2021 I’ve just read an article published in The Forge, an Australian defence department journal. It’s entitled “JPME with a Purpose: Breaking through the Mythology.” It was written by a former Canadian naval officer, now a member of the Royal Australian Navy. It’s rather critical of […]
David Dunlop, 30 March 2021 Here is a feature article just published in the Maritime Engineering Journal (No 96, Spring 2021 issue, pages 15-18) on the CSC Project discussing the Personnel and Training program as it relates to this massive warship replacement project. It's an interesting read by Cdr Andrew Sargeant, […]
We know about naval ships, but what about Canada’s naval aviation capacity? What capabilities does Canada have, and what do they do? There are a variety of maritime aviation capabilities, and they undertake numerous operations ranging from search and rescue, to surveillance, to anti-submarine warfare. The capabilities can be classified […]
Over the last 15 years, Canadian Naval Review has published over 170 book reviews. These books cover a variety of topics but they all relate to maritime matters, history, or security and defence at sea. This is an amazing resource. Go through the list of reviews, pick out a few […]
Every year senior leaders in the United States Navy release a recommended reading list. This, like many other military reading lists, is a mix of classic literature and new entries. For example, the 2017 list (https://militaryreadinglists.com/reading_list/3-navy) includes both Mahan’s book The Influence of Sea Power Upon History and P.W. Singer […]
14 November 2016. These two, seemingly unrelated news clips are, in fact, linked through their common concerns over an apparent return to Cold War concepts of naval strategy. The common denominator is the rise of Russian sea power both under and on the surface of the oceans. In the first […]
I agree with my former colleague Ken Hansen that Canada has made a mistake in moving to a fully joint programme with the Command and Staff Course at the Canadian Forces College. I arrived at the college in 2001 as a sceptic but rapidly became convinced of the need to […]
The launching of a new maritime studies centre (The Corbett Centre for Maritime Policy Studies) within the Joint Services Command and Staff College, at Shrivenham in Wiltshire, is a fascinating development. Just at the Canadian Forces College in Toronto is deleting the Maritime Component Programme (as well as the Land […]