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| Author | : James A. Boutilier |
| Publisher | : UBC Press |
| Total Pages | : 453 |
| Release | : 2011-11-01 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0774843462 |
This tribute to a proud service surveys the history of the Royal Canadian Navy from its inception in 1910 to its demise in 1968. Although established as a declaration of Canada's independence from the imperial fleet, the RCN was the child of the Royal Navy. Its first ships were RN cast-offs, and for the next forty years officers trained in the British fleet -- their 'big ship time.' From these modest beginnings, the book deals with such related issues as the problem of imperial defense, the development of a naval service with a Canadian identity, and the evolution of a Canadian naval engineering capacity.
| Author | : John Griffith Armstrong |
| Publisher | : UBC Press |
| Total Pages | : 258 |
| Release | : 2011-11-01 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0774841052 |
The Halifax Explosion of 1917 is a defining event in the Canadian consciousness, yet it has never been the subject of a sustained analytical history. Astonishingly, until now no one has consulted the large federal government archives that contain first-hand accounts of the disaster and the response of national authorities. Canada's recently established navy was at the epicentre of the crisis. Armstrong reveals the navy's compelling, and little-known, story by carefully retracing the events preceding the disaster and the role of the military in its aftermath. He catches the pulse of disaster response in official Ottawa and provides a compelling analysis of the legal manoeuvres, rhetoric, blunders, public controversy, and crisis management that ensued. His disturbing conclusion is that federal officials knew of potential dangers in the harbour before the explosion, took no corrective action, and kept the information from the public.
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| Total Pages | : 152 |
| Release | : 1957 |
| Genre | : Bibliography |
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| Author | : United States Air Force Academy. Library |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 144 |
| Release | : 1996 |
| Genre | : Bibliography |
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| Author | : Richard O. Mayne |
| Publisher | : UBC Press |
| Total Pages | : 295 |
| Release | : 2011-11-01 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0774840137 |
In January 1944, Vice Admiral Percy Walker Nelles was fired from his position as head of the Royal Canadian Navy. Betrayed reveals the true story behind the dismissal: a divisive power struggle between two elite groups within the RCN pitted the navy's regular officers against a small group of self-appointed spokesmen for the voluntary naval reserve. Threats of public scandal, mass insurrection, and political intimidation caused one of the worst breakdowns ever in Canadian civil-military relations. This fascinating investigation into the machinations of a divided navy tackles important questions of military professionalism, leadership, and identity.
| Author | : Harold A. Skaarup |
| Publisher | : iUniverse |
| Total Pages | : 683 |
| Release | : 2005-05-16 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0595797008 |
Intelligence is a key element of operations, enabling commanders to successfully plan and conduct operations. It enables them to win decisive battles and it helps them to identify and attack high value targets. Intelligence is an important part of every military decision. Military intelligence is the knowledge of a possible or actual enemy or area of operation. It encompasses combat intelligence, strategic intelligence, and counterintelligence, and is essential to the preparation and execution of military policies, plans, and operations. The objective of military intelligence is to minimize the uncertainties of the affects of enemy, weather and terrain on operations. The decisive factor in warfare has often been the utilization of good intelligence. A glimpse of how this has been done in the Canadian Forces is contained in this reference book on the Intelligence Branch history.
| Author | : Brian A. Reid |
| Publisher | : Stackpole Books |
| Total Pages | : 512 |
| Release | : 2009-06-15 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 146175139X |
Landmark study of the Canadians' first major operation in Normandy New revelations on the death of German panzer ace Michael Wittmann Handsomely illustrated with maps, photos, and diagrams On August 8, 1944, the Canadian Army launched Operation Totalize, a massive armored and mechanized infantry attack that aimed to break through enemy defenses south of Caen and trap the German Army in Normandy by linking up with Patton's Third Army.
| Author | : Howard Coombs |
| Publisher | : Dundurn |
| Total Pages | : 450 |
| Release | : 2008-03-28 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1770702962 |
The Unwilling and the Reluctant: Theoretical Perspectives on Disobedience in the Military and The Apathetic and the Defiant: Case Studies of Canadian Mutiny and Disobedience, 1812-1919 are the first two volumes in a series devoted to disobedience issues in the Canadian military. Now with The Insubordinate and the Noncompliant, the trilogy is complete. Military leadership has both formal and informal dimensions. The formal leadership of any organization must ensure that it minimizes the divergence between institutional aims and the actions of informal leaders. When this separation occurs, the result is sometimes mutiny. These incidents of insubordination and noncompliance represent a form of dialogue between military personnel and their leadership. The Insubordinate and the Noncompliant offers a perspective on the Canadian experience with military mutiny in the twentieth century in an effort to provide relevant lessons for today.
| Author | : C.P. Champion |
| Publisher | : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP |
| Total Pages | : 360 |
| Release | : 2010-05-01 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0773591052 |
Examining cases such as the introduction of the Maple Leaf to replace the Canadian Red Ensign and Union Jack as the national flag, Champion shows that, despite what he calls Canada's "crisis of Britishness," Pearson and his supporters unwittingly perpetuated a continuing Britishness because they - and their ideals - were the product of a British world. Using a fascinating array of personal papers, memoirs, and contemporary sources, this ground-breaking study demonstrates the ongoing influence of Britishness in Canada and showcases the personalities and views of some of the country's most important political and cultural figures. An important study that provides a better understanding of Canada, The Strange Demise of British Canada also shows the lasting influence Britain has had on its former colonies across the globe.
| Author | : Christian Paul Champion |
| Publisher | : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP |
| Total Pages | : 361 |
| Release | : 2010 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0773536906 |
Did Canada come of age in the 1960s, or does it remain a British country?
