6560 Andrew Nellestyn’s Food For Thought: A FRIEND IN DESPAIR IS A FRIEND IN NEED OF TENDER LOVING CARE (TLC)
A dear friend just called to say that it’s a dark, dreary, rainy day and that COVID stay in place measures were like black clouds hovering above. I replied that there’s a silver lining in every cloud and that the Paschal feast of the resurrection and the sunny warm weather forecasted would enliven all souls…
12570 Mike Kennedy Reviews “Defending the Motherland” by Lyuda Vinogradova
Book Review: “Defending the Motherland,” by Lyuba Vinogradova Published by MacLehose Press, 349 pp. $19.95 Review by 12570 Mike Kennedy Only about a month ago, RMC celebrated an important milestone in its evolution with the appointment of 18078 Brigadier General Lise Bourgon as the first female Commandant in the College’s history. A 1992 graduate of CMR,…
New Book by 20600 Phil Halton: “Blood Washing Blood”
“Blood Washing Blood: Afghanistan’s Hundred Year War” is the latest, and first non-fiction, book by Ex-Cadet and author Phil Halton. It will be released on 27 April by Dundurn Press. Based on his experiences working in Afghanistan as a civilian as well as copious research, Blood Washing Blood provides a very different view on the…
12570 Mike Kennedy Reviews “Story of a Secret State” by Jan Karski
Book Review – “Story of a Secret State: My Report to the World,” By Jan Karski Published by Penguin Random House, 455 pp. $18.95 Review by 12570 Mike Kennedy As the summer of 1939 drew to a close, perhaps for the first time in a long while Canadians had reason to be guardedly optimistic. For…
6560 Andrew Nellestyn’s Food for Thought: CAF Involvement in Vaccine Rollout & The Importance of Pronouns
“According to the experts, yes, there really is no one better when it comes to tricky logistical issues than military types.” JP. Brigadier-General Carla Harding’s comments in the article are informative, insightful and clearly articulated. The scope and complexity of the logistics support operations are breathtaking, gargantuan. It is no wonder as we are at…
6560 Andrew Nellestyn’s Food For Thought: The Big Short – 2008 Redux
GameStop. AMC Entertainment. BlackBerry. Are hedge fund traders getting their just desserts? Are retail investors richer, getting their share of the pie? Is this the socialization of the market wherein all, Wall Street and Main Street, have equality of equity – pun intended? Ultimately all swim or sink together! “Truth is like poetry. And most…
6560 Andrew Nellestyn’s Food For Thought: What happens to surplus military airplanes?
Where do military airplanes go once they’ve exceeded their “best before” dates? You’d be surprised by the esteem and care they are accorded. Some end up in the hands of other air forces, private individuals, museums, spare part wholesalers. The demand is encouragingly high. Their use as monuments is respectably common. This is the story…
6560 Andrew Nellestyn’s Food for Thought: The 432-year-old Italian manual on social distancing
The PROTOMEDICUS MANUAL. Lessons from pandemics which have gone before and other mitigative measures. Quarantine. From the Italian “quaranta giorni”: forty days, the period of self-isolation. AN https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20210107-the-432-year-old-manual-on-social-distancing
17789 Leona Alleslev: NATO Science and Technology Committee – Defence Innovation Special Report
This special report provides a brief overview of the challenges that the Alliance is facing on the defence innovation front and how member nations and NATO as an organisation have begun to tackle the issue. Your rapporteur also outlines some of the challenges Allies are facing in implementing innovation and presents ideas of how NATO…
6560 Andrew Nellestyn’s Food For Thought
In 1603, a Jesuit monk invented a machine for lifting the entire planet with only ropes and gears. Some pesky details prevented him from achieving his aims. Yet mega engineering projects have captured the imagination of many a mathematician and engineer. Many feats which were thought impossible became reality and exist to this day. They…
17481 Dr. Sean Maloney – Emergency War Plan: The American Doomsday Machine, 1945-1960
17481 Dr. Sean Maloney (left) is a Professor of History at RMC and, among other things, served as the Historical Advisor to the Chief of the Land Staff during the war in Afghanistan. He recently took the time to discuss his new book, Emergency War Plan: The American Doomsday Machine, 1945-1960, with eVeritas. Emergency War…
12570 Mike Kennedy Reviews “Extraordinary Canadians” by Peter Mansbridge
Book Review: “Extraordinary Canadians,” by Peter Mansbridge Published by Simon & Schuster, 290 pp. $36.99 Review by 12570 Mike Kennedy As we turn the page on what has no doubt been an extraordinarily difficult year for a great many people in this country, Canadians are looking ahead to 2021 with a renewed sense of hope…