It has just recently come to my attention that Ken Hansen recycled here in 2011 much of his 2007 criticism in the Canadian Military Journal (CMJ) (see Link 1 below) of my 2006 CMJ article on building a Canadian amphibious capability (see Link 2 below). In his critique, Hansen did […]
Naval Service Culture
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Dan Leger, writing as a freelance journalist, has an article entitled “Delisle case: We need accountability over expedience,” in the ‘Opinions’ section of the 29 October issue of the Halifax Herald. He asks probing questions about how a such "weak link" like Sub-Lt. Jeffrey Paul Delisle got into the navy’s […]
*Moderators Note: This post is extracted from an article published in the ‘Views and Opinions’ section of Canadian Military Journal (Summer 2007): 79-80. You can read the original article here. The idea of acquiring large amphibious ships for the Canadian military is based on the assumption that only a ship […]
Ian Parker's response above is well intentioned I'm sure, but he simply seems to be a bit hurt by the truth. It may disappoint him to discover that the comment "the navy... usually acquires a platform and then designs capabilities for it" is not of my own making but was […]