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Report on Transformation: a Leaner NDHQ? • INDEPENDENT AND INFORMED • AUTONOME ET RENSEIGNÉ ON TRACK The Conference of Defence Associations Institute • L’Institut de la Conférence des Associations de la Défense Autumn 2011 • Volume 16, Number 3 Automne 2011 • Volume 16, Numéro 3 REPORT ON TRANSFORMATION: A leaner NDHQ? Afghanistan: Combat Mission Closure Reflecting on Remembrance ON TRACK VOLUME 16 NUMBER 3: AUTUMN / AUTOMNE 2011 PRESIDENT / PRÉSIDENT Dr. John Scott Cowan, BSc, MSc, PhD VICE PRESIDENT / VICE PRÉSIDENT Général (Ret’d) Raymond Henault, CMM, CD CDA INSTITUTE BOARD OF DIRECTORS LE CONSEIL D’ADMINISTRATION DE L’INSTITUT DE LA CAD EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR / DIRECTEUR EXÉCUTIF Colonel (Ret) Alain M. Pellerin, OMM, CD, MA Admiral (Ret’d) John Anderson SECRETARY-TREASURER / SECRÉTAIRE TRÉSORIER Mr. Thomas d’Aquino Lieutenant-Colonel (Ret’d) Gordon D. Metcalfe, CD Dr. David Bercuson HONOURARY COUNSEL / AVOCAT-CONSEIL HONORAIRE Dr. Douglas Bland Mr. Robert T. Booth, QC, B Eng, LL B Colonel (Ret’d) Brett Boudreau DIRECTOR OF RESEARCH / Dr. Ian Brodie DIRECTEUR DE LA RECHERCHE Mr. Paul Chapin, MA Mr. Thomas S. Caldwell Mr. Mel Cappe PUBLIC AFFAIRS / RELATIONS PUBLIQUES Captain (Ret’d) Peter Forsberg, CD Mr. Jamie Carroll Dr. Jim Carruthers DEFENCE POLICY ANALYSTS / ANALYSTES DES POLITIQUES DE DÉFENSE Mr. Paul H. Chapin Ms. Meghan Spilka O’Keefe, MA Mr. Terry Colfer Mr. Arnav Manchanda, MA M. Jocelyn Coulon Mr. Dave Perry, MA Dr. John Scott Cowan PROJECT OFFICER / AGENT DE PROJET Mr. Dan Donovan Mr. Paul Hillier, MA Lieutenant-général (Ret) Richard Evraire Conference of Defence Associations Institute Honourary Lieutenant-Colonel Justin Fogarty 151 Slater Street, Suite 412A Ottawa ON K1P 5H3 Colonel, The Hon. John Fraser Lieutenant-général (Ret) Michel Gauthier PHONE / TÉLÉPHONE Rear-Admiral (Ret’d) Roger Girouard (613) 236 9903 Brigadier-General (Ret’d) Bernd A. Goetze, PhD e-mail / courriel: [email protected] Honourary Colonel Blake C. 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Peter Forsberg, CONTENTS CONTENU From THE Executive Director ...........................................................................................................................4 LE mot DU Directeur exécutif............................................................................................................................4 Colonel (Ret’d) Alain Pellerin REPORT ON TRANSFORMATION Report ON Transformation ............................................................................................................6 Lieutenant-General (Ret’d) Andrew Leslie THE LESLIE report IN context........................... ..............................................................................8 Dr. Douglas Bland Transformation by THE numbers .............................................................................................13 Colonel (Ret’d) Brian MacDonald Afghanistan: combat MISSION CLOSURE LA FIN DES Opérations DE Combat Canadiennes à Kandahar : RÉFLEXIONS à Chaud.............................................................................................................................16 Brigadier-général Richard Giguère BETwEEN HOPE AND Despair: Afghanistan A Decade AFTER 9/11................................18 Colonel (Ret’d) Mike Capstick DRAwING LESSONS from Afghanistan .......................................................................................21 Major-General Nick Carter Canada’S CONTINUING Legacy IN Afghanistan ......................................................................26 Dr. Howard G. Coombs REFLECTING ON REMEMBERANCE A Most Personal ACT OF REMEMBRANCE ..................................................................................28 Commander Jeff Agnew Normandy AND Flanders ................................................................................................................31 Thomas S. Caldwell Featured essay THE CORE OF History ...........................................................................................................................34 Commander (Ret’d) Richard Archer COMMENTARY F-35 JOINT STRIKE FIGHTER Costs................................................................................................................36 Alan williams REJOINDER..................................................................................................................................................37 Lieutenant-General (Ret’d) George Macdonald REVIEwS War + MEDICINE: IT’S not ABOUT wAR .........................................................................................38 CHUrcHILL SEIGNEUR DE GUERRE.......................................................................................................39 OXFORD COMPANION TO CANADIAN MILITARY HISTORY.................................................................41 COUNTERSTRIKE .......................................................................................................................................42 © 2011 DND-MDN CANADA ON TRACK FROM THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR MOT DU DIRECTEUR EXÉCUTIF ON TRACK, now in its sixteenth ON TRACK, qui en est maintenant year, has become more widely read with each succeeding edition. We attribute ON TRACK’s d’accroître le nombre de ses lecteur à chaque increasing readership to the excellent quality nouvelleà sa seizième parution. année deNous publication, attribuons ne cessecette of the material that is provided by members croissance à l’excellente qualité du contenu fourni of the Conference of Defence Associations par les membres de l’Institut de la Conférence Institute (CDA Institute), and by members des associations de la défense (Institut de la of the Canadian Forces, academics and CAD) et des Forces canadiennes, des milieux researchers who are the acknowledged universitaires et de la recherche qui sont des experts reconnus de leurs domaines respectifs. The intent of ON TRACK is to provide Colonel (Ret) Alain M. Pellerin, OMM, Le but visé par ON TRACK est de servir aexperts medium in their of respectiveinformed fields.and non-partisan de support à un débat informé et non partisan debate on defence and security matters of importance to sur les questions de défense et de sécurité qui ont de the interests of Canada. We will continue to publish credible, l’importance pour les intérêts du Canada. Nous continuerons informed research as well as opinion which we believe will à publier des recherches crédibles et informées ainsi que provide Canadians with insight to the concerns of the defence des opinions qui, selon nous, donneront aux Canadiens une community. The articles that are published express the views idée des préoccupations qui ont cours dans les milieux de la of the authors – and may not necessarily coincide with those défense. Les articles publiés ici expriment les points de vue of the CDA Institute. de leurs auteurs – et ne coïncident pas nécessairement avec ceux de l’Institut de la CAD. This autumn edition of ON TRACK features articles Ce numéro d’automne de ON TRACK présente des of current interest in the areas of the Canadian Forces, articles d’intérêt courant dans les domaines des Forces Afghanistan, remembrance, the naval impact on history, and canadiennes, de l’Afghanistan, du souvenir, de l’impact de the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, a review of a Canadian War la marine sur l’histoire, et du chasseur Joint Strike Fighter Museum exhibit, and three book reviews. F-35, un commentaire de visite d’une exposition
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