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CANADIAN MILITARY JOURNAL Vol. 19, No. 3, Summer 2019 Vol. 19, No. 3, Summer 2019 CONTENTS 3 EDITOR’S CORNER 6 LETTER TO THE EDITOR EDUCATION AND TRAINING 7 Security Force Capability Building 2.0: Enhancing the Structure behind the Training by Pierre Leroux PERSONNEL ISSUES Cover 15 Military to Civilian Transition: A Family-First Approach Ottawa artist Stephen Quick’s by Darryl G. Cathcart stunning interpretation of Major William ‘Will’ Barker’s MILITARY SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY Victoria Cross-winning fight 22 Reframing and Responding to Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP) Risk to Canada on 27 October 1918. by Simon D.H. Wells © Stephen Quick WAR ART 29 The Art of Command: An Artistic Interpretation by Bernd Horn MILITARY HISTORY 37 The Influence of Empire: A National Organization and the Birth of the Royal Canadian Air Force, 1918 – 1924 by Richard Mayne VIEWS AND OPINIONS 45 Domestic Military Disaster Mitigation: A New Approach to a Recurring Problem Security Force by Donald Saul Capability Building 2.0: 51 Telework in the Reserves: An Idea Whose Time is About to Come Enhancing the Structure by Dan A. Doran behind the Training 57 Canada’s 2017 Defence Policy: A Triple Boost for Canadian Defence Intelligence by Hristijan Ivanovski 62 Shared Responsibility: Civil-Military Relations in the Humanitarian Space by Marissa Gibson 68 BOOK REVIEWS Military to Civilian Transition: A Family- First Approach Canadian Military Journal/Revue militaire canadienne is the official professional journal of the Canadian Armed Forces and the Department of National Defence. It is published quarterly under authority of the Minister of National Defence. Opinions expressed or implied in this publication are those of the author, and do not necessarily represent the views of the Department of National Defence, the Canadian Armed Forces, Canadian Military Journal, or any agency of the Government of Canada. Crown copyright is retained. Articles may be reproduced with permission of the Editor, on condition that appropriate credit is given to Canadian Military Journal. Each issue of the Journal is published simultaneously in print and electronic versions; it is available on the Internet at www.journal.forces.gc.ca. ISSN 1492-465X Canadian Military Journal • Vol. 19, No. 3, Summer 2019 1 How to Contact Us CANADIAN Canadian Military Journal MILITARY PO Box 17000, Station Forces Kingston, Ontario JOURNAL CANADA, K7K 7B4 www.journal.forces.gc.ca E-mail: [email protected] Editor-in-Chief Translation David L. Bashow Translation Bureau, (613) 541-5010 ext. 6148 Public Services and Procurement Canada [email protected] Publication Manager Commentary Claire Chartrand Martin Shadwick (613) 541-5010 ext. 6837 [email protected] Editorial Advisor Michael Boire Reframing and RespondingText to Electromagnetic Pulse Oversight Committee (EMP) Risk to Canada Chairman Rear-Admiral L. Cassivi, Commander, Canadian Defence Academy (CDA) Members Mr. David L. Bashow, Editor-in-Chief, Brigadier-General S. Bouchard, Commandant Canadian Military Journal (CMJ) Royal Military College of Canada (RMC) Colonel Marty Cournoyer, representing Major Chris Young, representing Chief of the Air Staff (CAS) Chief of Staff Army Strategy Dr. H.J. Kowal, Principal, Lieutenant-Colonel Brent Clute, Royal Military College of Canada (RMC) Director Canadian Forces Military Law Centre (CFMLC), Canadian Defence Academy (CDA) Captain (N) David Patchell, representing TheText Art of Command: An Chief of the Naval Staff (CNS) Ms. Hanya Soliman, representing Chief of the Artistic Interpretation Defence Intelligence (CDI) Editorial Board Chief Warrant Officer Necole Belanger Philippe Lagassé Dr. Douglas Bland Lieutenant-Colonel (ret’d) David Last Major (ret’d) Michael Boire Dr. Chris Madsen Lieutenant-Colonel (ret’d) Douglas Delaney Dr. Sean Maloney The Influence of Dr. Rocky J. Dwyer Professor Brian McKercher Empire: A National Lieutenant-Colonel (ret’d) Michael Goodspeed Dr. Paul Mitchell Organization and the Major-General (ret’d) Daniel Gosselin Dr. Nezih Mrad Birth of the Royal Major Tanya Grodzinski Dr. Scot Robertson Canadian Air Force, Dr. David Hall Professor Stéphane Roussel 1918-1924Text Professor Michael Hennessy Professor Elinor Sloan Colonel (ret’d) Bernd Horn Colonel (ret’d) Randall Wakelam Professor Hamish Ion NOTE TO READERS As a bilingual journal, readers should take note that where citations are translated from their original language, the abbreviation [TOQ] at the end of the note, which stands for “translation of original quote”, indicates to the readers that the original citation can be found in the published version of the Journal in the other official language. 2 Canadian Military Journal • Vol. 19, No. 3, Summer 2019 EDITOR’S CORNER elcome to yet another summer edition of Barker remained in the embryonic Canadian Air Force after the Canadian Military Journal. This time the war, rising to the rank of lieutenant-colonel, and after several out, our cover proudly features Ottawa business ventures, including a short-lived flying business partner- artist Stephen Quick’s wonderful interpre- ship with friend, fellow ace and V.C. holder ‘Billy’ Bishop, in 1930, tation of Major William ‘Will’ Barker’s he became president of Fairchild Aviation’s fledgling Canadian WVictoria Cross fight on 27 October 1918. Barker, who would operation. Tragically, on 12 March 1930, he was killed instantly finish the war with 50 accredited aerial victories and become at Rockcliffe Airport in Ottawa when the training aircraft he was Canada’s most decorated airman of the war, was flying his demonstrating for the Department of National Defence stalled and last combat patrol over the Western Front that day, in a new crashed. Although it proved impossible to determine the exact cause Sopwith Snipe, the formidable successor to the ubiquitous of the accident, the need for a rapid throttle adjustment to help break Sopwith Camel, before returning to England for a staff assign- the stall [which would have required the decisive use of his left ment. At 12,000 feet, in a brilliant blue sky over the Forêt hand – Ed.] appears to have been an issue. In a letter of condolence, de Mormal at 8:25 AM, Barker spotted a white Rumpler C Barker’s British surgeon, Robert Dolbey, made a chilling observation two-seater reconnoitering the lines from well above him at with respect to the great ace’s physical limitations: 21,000 feet. After several climbing turns to gain advantage, Barker put telling bursts into the German aircraft. As the “After the war, I operated on his elbow joint, after which Rumpler broke up in the air, one of the crew members emerged – though it was no fault of mine, but an inevitable result in a blossoming parachute. Barker stared transfixed by the of the destruction of the bone, he was never able to have scene, a near-fatal mistake, for he in turn was hammered by a any power in his arm, unless he had a retentive apparatus, Fokker D VII, the first he had ever encountered, and he was so that Barker, from that time onwards, flew entirely with severely wounded in the right thigh. Fainting from the pain, one arm. He was one of the finest young men that I ever Barker somehow threw the Snipe into a spin, only to recover met and I think his death is a terrible loss, not only to consciousness some 2000 feet lower, in the midst of a total Canada, but to the whole of the British Empire.” force of approximately fifteen D VIIs! For the next several minutes, Barker was everywhere in the sky. Flying with con- With respect to our current issue, seasoned infantry summate skill, yet believing he was doomed, he gave even officer Lieutenant-Colonel Pierre Leroux ‘takes the point’ with an more than he got. He fired at two of the Fokkers inconclusively, interesting and informative discourse on security force capability but set a third one on fire from ten yards’ range. Wounded a building, based upon his experience in command of Operation second time, now in the left thigh, Barker again fainted and UNIFIER in Ukraine during 2018 and 2019. While he maintains again spun downwards, regaining consciousness at 15,000 feet that the operation was successful, he also cautions that there was amid a portion of the enemy formation. Barker then gunned significant room for improvement. Therefore, while he details the down another Fokker in flames, but one of this group peppered initiatives used to enhance the Security Forces of Ukraine, and his Snipe and shattered his left elbow. Passing out once more, touches upon some of the notable achievements towards developing he entered a third spin and recovered in a further group of the enduring effects, Leroux further offers some recommendations enemy scouts flying at 12,000 feet. With his Snipe now riddled for future commanders and leaders of any future security force and smoking, Barker selected another Fokker for attention and capability building missions. blasted it to bits, although his aircraft suffered more damage as he flew through the wreckage of his latest victim. Still in dire Next, long-serving Army veteran Darryl Cathcart maintains peril, Barker seized upon a brief exit corridor, dived westward, that, “…for many, uniformed service in the Canadian Armed and streaked towards the British lines, adroitly dodging more Forces is a family affair where military spouses, partners, and of the enemy in the process. Crossing the lines at scant feet, children are immersed in a unique sub-culture that does not exist he crash-landed into the barbed wire entanglements protecting in any other profession in Canada.” He further opines, “When a a British observation balloon site. military member leaves the CAF, whether voluntary or otherwise, a confluence of factors must be considered to ensure the conditions One of the many British and Canadian soldiers who witnessed for transition are met, including the needs of one’s immediate this epic fight was Lieutenant-Colonel (later General) A.G.L.