The Canadian Army Journal Volume 17.1, 2016

17.1 2016 17.1 2016 ARTICLES The Canadian Army Journal Doctrine Development in Canada’s Army in the 1990s Le Journal de l’Armée du Canada Le Journal de l’Armée Lieutenant-General Sir Arthur Currie: The Canadian Corps and the Manoeuverist Approach The Second Lebanon War The Black Art of Red Teaming Thinking About War Canadian Expeditionary Brigade Groups The McChrystal Memoir and Principles for Attack the Network (AtN) 17.1 2016 Canada’s Professional Journal On Army Issues PRODUCED FOR PATRON The Canadian Army Journal, a refereed forum of ideas and issues, is the Chief of the Army Staff Detachment Kingston (Canadian Army Land Warfare Centre) Commander Canadian Army: official publication of the Canadian Army. 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Palimaka DISCLAIMER Opinions expressed in the articles remain those of the author and do not represent Government of Canada, departmental or Canadian Armed Forces official policy. The doctrine, training, and other updates do not represent authority for action on that particular topic. All published material remains the copyright of The Department of National Defence and may be used with written permission from the Editor. Source: Combat Camera TABLE OF CONTENTS TABLE OF CONTENTS EDITORIAL BOOK REVIEWS 49 The Black Art of Red Teaming: 15 Axioms 06 132 142 Brigadier-General S.V. Radley-Walters, Matthew A. Lauder The Necessary War Volume One: Canadians Forgotten Victory: First Canadian Army CMM, DSO, MC, CD, Fighting The Second World War 1939–1943 and the Cruel Winter of 1944–1945 11 January 1920–21 April 2015 59 Thinking About War: TheCanadian Reviewed by Major Thomas K. Fitzgerald Reviewed by Major Thomas K. Fitzgerald Colonel Lawrence J. Zaporzan Defence Quarterly and the Uncertainties GUEST EDITORIAL of Mechanized Warfare in the 1930s 134 The History of Messes in the Canadian Army 144 Snow and Steel: The Battle of the Bulge, David Moule Reviewed by Major John R. Grodzinski 1944–45 10 Answering the Call Reviewed by Major Thomas K. Fitzgerald Brigadier-General Stephen M. Cadden 75 Canadian Expeditionary Brigade Groups: 138 The Mantle of Command: FDR at War, A Proposal for Reforming Canadian 1941–1942 146 A Street in Arnhem: The Agony of ARTICLES Mechanised Brigade Groups Reviewed by Major Thomas K. Fitzgerald Occupation and Liberation Reviewed by Major Chris Buckham 13 Doctrine Development in Canada’s Captain John H. Keess Army in the 1990s 140 Canadians at War: Vol 2. A Guide to the 99 The McChrystal Memoir and Principles Battlefields and Memorials of World War II 148 Panzer Operations: Germany’s Panzer Group 3 Lieutenant-General (retired) Mike Jeffery for Attack the Network (AtN) Reviewed by Colonel Peter J. Williams During the Invasion of Russia, 1941 Reviewed by Major Chris Buckham 29 Lieutenant-General Sir Arthur Currie: James W. Moore The Canadian Corps and the NOTE TO FILE Manoeuverist Approach 150 Stopping the Panzers: The Untold Story of D-Day Captain Michael J. Pratt 115 Commander’s Intent Reviewed by Captain John Rickard Captain Matt Rolls 39 The Second Lebanon War: An Analysis of the Shortfalls of Israeli 121 “Lest We Forget….” The Canadian Army Joint Fires and the Success of Hezbollah and UN Peacekeeping (Again) Information Operations Sean M. Maloney Captain Richard T.D. Parent Source: Combat Camera 4 THE CANADIAN ARMY JOURNAL VOLUME 17.1 2016 WWW.ARMY.FORCES.GC.CA/CAJ 5 EDITORIAL Source: Library and Archives Canada EDITORIAL: BRIGADIER-GENERAL S.V. RADLEY-WALTERS, His greatest legacy to the CMM, DSO, MC, CD, 11 JANUARY 1920–21 APRIL 2015 officers of my generation was as a mentor and teacher. He took every opportunity he At Rad’s passing, I began to reflect on the close could to impart his knowledge connection that I and many of the Royal Canadian of leadership and tactics; he Armour Corps (RCAC) members had had with him believed it was his duty over the course of his distinguished lifetime. The first because he survived the time I met Rad was the summer of 1980 when, as horror of the war and had a Colonel Commandant of the RCAC, he visited my responsibility to pass on what Phase II course in Gagetown. he could to those who followed so that they might Ever the teacher, I recall him talking to us in the shade of also survive and win their an APC, but I sadly cannot recall what he talked about, since war. He was a regular guest we were all just happy to be taking a break from section attacks lecturer at the Canadian Land in the hot summer sun on the Lawfield corridor and really Force Command and Staff did not know much about tanks at that point in our careers. College and a frequent The next time I met him was at my firstth 8 Canadian Hussars participant in battlefield Colonel Lawrence J. Zaporzan, (Princess Louise’s) mess dinner in Petawawa where, as was his studies and tours of OMM, CD custom, he took the opportunity to pass on the hard-won Normandy. As the Colonel lessons of combat, tactics and leadership. Of course, I also Commandant of the RCAC, recall a whooping Rad riding on Ross Wickware’s back in the as an honoured guest, or mess games later in the evening! Our paths crossed many when hosting at home, he times in the years thereafter, but I really got to know him on took every opportunity a much deeper level when I did my research for my master’s to impart the lessons of his thesis, which was a study of Rad’s leadership to the end of wartime experience. It was in the Normandy Campaign. that spirit that he allowed me to conduct in-depth Although a soft-spoken man, he was a strong, tough fellow; interviews with him to put raised in the Gaspé, he loved the outdoors and combative together the story and lessons sports. He played football for the Army in Europe and in the of his wartime experiences. He later did the same with Craig Mantle, who published a series Canadian Football League.

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