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Category Archives: PPT Presentations
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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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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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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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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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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Strategia: A Primer on Theory and Strategy for Students of War
Colonel (Retired) Chuck Oliviero War fascinates us, but what do we really know about its nature? Strategia is the product of Colonel Oliviero’s decades-long intellectual quest to address this fundamental query. His work offers both the serious student and the … Continue reading
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The Hardest Battle: The Canadian Corps and the Arras Campaign 1918 – Dr. Bill Stewart
The Canadian Corps’ Second Arras campaign in 1918 was its most significant operational assignment of the war. More pivotal than Vimy, Passchendaele, or Amiens, its task was to smash through a 15-kilometre fortified zone including the formidable DQ Line and … Continue reading
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Presentation: Afghanistan 20 Years On – Jamie Hammond – 14 SEP 22
Col (Ret’d) Jamie Hammond is currently an Associate Faculty member at Royal Roads University and was a candidate in the 2019 federal election for Esquimalt-Saanich-Sooke. Previously he was Assistant Deputy Minister International Competitiveness and Strategy in the BC Public Service … Continue reading
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