The Admirals: Canada's Senior Naval Leadership in the Twentieth Century

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Richard Howard Gimblett, Peter Trevor Haydon, Michael Jeffrey Whitby
Dundurn, 21 jan 2006 - 414 pagina's

The Admirals: Canada's Senior Naval Leadership in the Twentieth Century fills an important void in the history of Canada's navy. Those who carry the burden of high command have a critical niche in not only guiding the day-to-day concerns of running an armed service but in ensuring that it is ready to face the challenges of the future. Canada's leading naval historians present analytical articles on the officers who led the navy from its foundation in 1910 to the unification in 1968. Six former Maritime Commanders provide personal reflections on command. The result is a valuable biographical compendium for anyone interested in the history of the Canadian Navy, the Canadian Forces, or military and naval leadership in general.

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Inhoudsopgave

Foreword by ViceAdmiral R D Buck
11
Forgotten Father
31
Ordinary Officer
55
Diligent Guardian of the Vision
69
ViceAdmiral Howard Emmerson Reid
157
Sailors Admiral
187
Pragmatic Navalist
213
ViceAdmiral Harold A Porter 197071
309
ViceAdmiral Charles M Thomas 198789
335
ViceAdmiral Robert E George 198991
341
ViceAdmiral John R Anderson 199192
349
Canadas Naval Commanders 19102005
357
Career Summaries of the Flag Officers
360
Abbreviations and Acronyms
384
Acknowledgements
394
Index
403

RearAdmiral Robert W Timbrell 197173
321
ViceAdmiral J Andrew Fulton 198083
327

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Populaire passages

Pagina 41 - Canadian naval service in co-operation with and in close relations to the imperial navy, along the lines suggested by the Admiralty at the last Imperial Conference, and in full sympathy with the view that the naval supremacy of Britain is essential to the security of commerce, the safety of the Empire, and the peace of the world. The House expresses its firm conviction that whenever the need arises, the Canadian people will be found ready and willing to make any...
Pagina 38 - You must not take the militia seriously, for though it is useful for suppressing internal disturbances, it will not be required for the defence of the country, as the Monroe doctrine protects us against enemy aggression
Pagina 20 - Captains are to look to their particular line as their rallying point. But, in case signals can neither be seen or perfectly understood, no captain can do very wrong if he places his ship alongside that of an enemy.
Pagina 177 - Report of the Department of National Defence for the fiscal year ending March 31, 1940.
Pagina 163 - The United States Navy plans a post-war personnel of 500,000 men. We have 10,000. Our population is one-twelfth that of the United States. You can figure out for yourself the arithmetic.
Pagina 59 - ... small Navy is of no value as an educative measure as its personnel live in the neighbourhood of the naval bases; but a reserve force distributed across Canada would bring the Navy home to a great number of inland people; would...
Pagina 32 - Andrew Gordon, The Rules of the Game: Jutland and British Naval Command, 38, contains some biographical material.
Pagina 49 - J. Reeve (eds), Southern Trident: Strategy, History and the Rise of Australian Naval Power (Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 2001), pp.
Pagina 157 - What we needed now was to get back to the old Liberal principles of economy, reduction of taxation, anti-militarism, etc.

Over de auteur (2006)

Michael Whitby is a Senior Naval Historian at the Directorate of History and Heritage, DND, and co-author of The Official History of the Royal Canadian Navy in the Second World War.

Richard H. Gimblett is an historian and defence policy analyst, and Research Fellow with the Centre for Foreign Policy Studies at Dalhousie University. Among many other publications he has authored major studies of Canada's role in the 1990-91 Persian Gulf War and in the War Against Terrorism.

Peter Haydon is a Senior Research Fellow with the Centre for Foreign Policy Studies at Dalhousie University in Halifax. A long time commentator and analyst of Canadian naval affairs, his most important work is The 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis: Canadian Involvement Reconsidered.

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