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Author Archives: Editor
ORTONA: Canada’s Epic WWII Battle
Mark Zuehlke On one blood-soaked week of fighting, December 20 to December 27 1943, 1st Canadian Infantry Division took Ortona Italy, from elite German paratroopers ordered to hold this medieval port town at all costs. The Loyal Edmonton Regiment and … Continue reading
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In Our Youth
The Lives, Adventures, and Sacrifices of Early Canadian Flyers – Angus Scully In Our Youth explores the lives of 32 young Canadian flyers, viewed through the medium of archival photography. All these young men were pilots in the First World … Continue reading
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Inside Fighter Jet Procurement
Systemic Intervention-based Inefficiency, Ineffectiveness & Opportunity Costs Brigadier-General (Retired) Gregory Matte BGen (Ret’d) Gregory Matte is a former CF-18 fighter pilot and a Fighter Weapons Instructor “Top Gun” graduate with extensive operational experience. He has held multiple command positions during … Continue reading
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RUSI-VI Newsletter, Vol. 55, September 2023
RUSI-VI Newsletter Volume 55, No. 3 – Third Quarter 2023 is available in portable document format (.PDF)
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The Spitfire Luck of Skeets Ogilvie – by Keith C. Ogilvie
When the RCAF wouldn’t accept him as a pilot in the summer of 1939, Keith ‘Skeets’ Ogilvie, the author’s father, walked across the street in Ottawa and joined the RAF. A week later he was on a boat to England … Continue reading
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RUSI-VI Newsletter Volume 55, No. 3 – Third Quarter 2023 (May 2023)
RUSI-VI Newsletter Volume 55, No. 3 – Third Quarter 2023 is available in portable document format (.PDF) President’s Message Editor’s Comment Tech Leaders Urge a Pause in the ‘Out-of-Control’ Artificial Intelligence Race The West Needs a New Strategy in Ukraine … Continue reading
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RUSI-VI Newsletter Volume 55, No. 2 – Second Quarter 2023 (Mar 2023)
RUSI-VI Newsletter Volume 55, No. 2 – Second Quarter 2023 is available in portable document format (.PDF) President’s Message Editor’s Comment Canada Yet to Receive Same Missiles U.S. Used to Shoot Down Airborne Objects How to Fix a Howitzer: US … Continue reading
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The Corps of Commissionaires
The Commissionaires are Canada’s largest private sector employer of veterans with 22,000 men and women who serve in 1,200 communities across Canada. Veterans of the CAF and RCMP account for 4,500 of their employees, and serve at all levels from … Continue reading
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Reading: Dr. Barry Gough
Dr. Gough presented his talk Churchill and Fisher: Titans at the Admiralty to the RUSI-VI luncheon on Wednesday, February 8, 2023. Here we present a list a books he has written. The Royal Navy and the Northwest Coast of North … Continue reading
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Churchill and Fisher: Titans at the Admiralty
“… Churchill and Fisher turns out to be above all a seething record of human passions and frailties – rivalries, resentments, regrets and reconciliations, all exemplified by the relationship between two towering champions of the human condition. Barry Gough has … Continue reading
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