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 […]
Naval Education
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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 […]