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Author Archives: Editor
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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RUSI-VI Newsletter Volume 55, No. 1 – First Quarter 2023
RUSI-VI Newsletter Volume 55, No. 1 – First Quarter 2023 is available in portable document format (.PDF) President’s Message Editor’s Comment Haiti’s Last Resort: Gangs and the Prospect of Foreign Intervention How China Views the World: An Analysis of the … Continue reading
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The Red River Expedition 1870
Paul McNicholls For members’ reading library: Journey Through the Wilderness: The Red River Expedition, 1870 by Paul McNicholls To fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excelence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy’s resistance without fighting … Continue reading
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Reading: Dr. William F. Stewart
Here we present some books by Dr. William F. Stewart on the First World War which members might want in their reading library: Hardest Battle: The Canadian Corps and the Arras Campaign, 1918 – Dr. William F. Stewart Canadians on … Continue reading
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Reading: Military Theory
As a follow-on to the luncheon presentation by Colonel Oliviero, we present this list of books on Military Theory that members may want to consider adding to their own reading library: Strategia – Charles S. Oliviero On War – Carl … Continue reading
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