In My Opinion...

These pages are provided as a sounding board for the opinions of our members and associates on the topics of the day or of their choice, with the caveat that our editor shall delete or rephrase any language that may offend our readers. We hope that they will be prompted to add to the discussion with comments in the interactive FORUM found at the bottom of the lead articles; new issues voiced will be brought to the top of these pages.

A Research Thought Paper

This is the paper written about in the RUSI VI Newsletter - Second Quarter 2007.  There are three items, each requires the Adobe Acrobat Reader to view the .PDF files.
1)  Letter to the Chief of Defence Staff
2)  The paper: Increasing Combat Capability by Reducing the Effects of Combat Stressors:
3)  Response from CDS

The Influence of Helicopter Operation on the Airforce
An Ingredient for Defence Review

John C. Eggenberger, OMM, CD, PhD JULY 2003

Canada’s Air Force Ethos - Then and Now

John C Eggenberger OMM CD PhD

Submission to the Standing Senate Committee on National Security and Defence: The Bankrupting of Canada’s Military - Causes, Consequences and Remedy

Paper and slides by Vice Admiral (ret’d) N.D.Brodeur 18 February 2005
Note: This document is in .PDF format. Adobe Acrobat Reader is necessary.

Understanding Canadian Army Ethos

John C Eggenberger OMM CD PhD
Please Note
Also posted with this piece:
The Citadelle Document and
Toward A General Model of Military Leadership for the Canadian Armed Forces

An appreciation of Canada’s Deployment Capabilities

John Eggenberger, Ralph Fisher, Richard Gimblett, and Lewis MacKenzie

The Little Air Force that Could

Kenneth Douglas Munro (Major – Ret.)

Sea King Replacement Program

Major General (Ret) Roy Sturgess, CMM, CD, AFCASI

The Need for a Defence Policy Review

LGen Lou Cuppens - Chairman of FMUSIC

Is Canada Respected?

Kevin Myers – The Sunday Telegraph

Will our Naval Reserves Have an Anti-terrorist Role?

GB Stanford, RCN (retired)

The Dieppe Raid
The Perspective of a Canadian Soldier Who Was at Normandy on D-Day

by Reginald R. Dixon

Do We Need Other Resources for International Operations?
A Case For Naval Ship Building

WLD (Bill) Farrell

National Defence Anyone ?
A Case for Strategic Airlift

By Lieutenant-General David Adamson, CD (Retired)

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