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Author Topic: Paging Canadians who might not normally be interested in military history?  (Read 1237 times)
Howard C. Berkowitz
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« on: October 05, 2008, 05:44:46 PM »

I'm interested in starting some related articles about Canadian roles in the First and Second World Wars, as well as more recent alliance,  which  mix history, politics, and military specifics. It's definitely a case where international viewpoints are needed (with some additions below)

This notice is here because it might catch the eye of people who might not usually be authors in History, Military, or Politics, but might find an interest.

Anyone interested in working together on any of these subjects?

WWI
*Canadian Corps
**Arthur Currie 1
***Battle of Vimy Ridge I do have a fair bit in the Geophysical MASINT article about the pioneering Canadian technology there for finding and countering German artillery. How they did what they did, without computers and only the most primitive electronics,
****Andrew McNaughton (continued in next war)

Interwar: Julian Byng and friends


*WWII
**Dieppe Raid (Operation JUBILEE)
**First Canadian Army
***McNaughton, continued
***Harry Crerar
 

There's also postwar matters including NORAD (is it still relevant?), and intelligence: the "UKUSA Agreement" of 1948, which may or may not have been separate from the agreement about we're-not-sure-what-it-is-but-it's-called-ECHELON with Australia, Canada, and New Zealand. In U.S. defense policy, there's quite a bit about the "Quadripartite", New Zealand not being in this due its nuclear weapons policy. I'm not sure there is enough about the Quadripartite to make an article, although it does appear in several articles about  intelligence topics.
 


Notes

1.  In my less than humble opinion, John Monash (Australian) and Arthur Currie (Canadian) were probably the outstanding junior Allied generals of WWI.  Their eventual commander, Julian Byng (UK) was definitely competent, but one of his greatest talents was being willing to recognize exceptional subordinates and help them do what they did best.

Byng, of course, gets post-WWI coverage in Canada.
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