Dr. Ann Griffiths, 14 June 2021 Admiral Craig Baines has just issued an apology for golfing with former Chief of the Defence Staff Jonathan Vance. Lieutenant-General Mike Rouleau, the Vice-Chief of the Defence Staff, was also involved in the golf outing. With this golf game, the leadership of the Canadian […]
Naval Service Culture
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RCN Public Affairs, 08 March 2021. As we mark International Women’s Day 2021, let’s celebrate the incredible contributions women in the Canadian Armed Forces and the Department of National Defence have made and continue to make, every day. Women in Defence are qualified and recognized national leaders who are driving […]
RCN Public Affairs, 26 February 2021. Shipmates, I’d like to echo the message that you will have already seen from the Acting Chief of the Defence Staff and the Deputy Minister. It is critically important that we all retain confidence in the process – that our shipmates know where to […]
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 […]
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 […]