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Praising Fidel?
My response to an article by Helen Forsey.
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About Dr. Maloney
Afghanistan
Africa
Alternative History
Atomic Express
AVRO Arrow: The Obsession and the Myth.
Book Reviews
Canadian Armed Forces Operations
Canadian National Security Policy
Development and Reconstruction
Naval Operations
Nuclear Weapons and Nuclear War
Peacekeeping and Stabilization Operations
Provocations
Russian Resurgence
Special Operations Forces
The Balkans
The Cold War
Was Pearson a Racist?
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Afghanistan
"A Violent Impediment: The Evolution of Insurgent Operations in Kandahar Province, 2003-2007," Small Wars and Insurgencies, Vol. 19 No. 2 June 2008.
"Afghanistan Four Years On: An Assessment," Parameters, Autumn 2005.
"Afghanistan: From Here to Eternity?" Parameters, Spring 2004
"Afghanistan: Not the War it Was," Policy Options, November 2010
"Blood on the Ground: Canada and the Southern Campaign in Afghanistan," Defense and Security Analysis, 23-4, 2007.
"Can We Negotiate with the Taliban?" Small Wars and Insurgencies, Vo. 21, No. 2 June 2010.
"Canada, Afghanistan, and the Blame Game," Policy Options December 2006
"Canada, Afghanistan, and the Blame Game," Policy Options, 1 December 2006
"Canada's New and Dangerous Mission in Afghanistan," Policy Options, March 2006
"Conceptualizing the War in Afghanistan: Perceptions from the Front, 2001-2006," Small Wars and Insurgencies, Vol. 18 No 1 March 2007.
"Incursion at Howz-e Madad: An Afghanistan Vignette," Canadian Military History Vol. 17 Issue 1.
"Note to File-Afghanistan: What We Thought We Knew of the Soviet Experience," Canadian Army Journal, 10.2 Summer 2007
"On a Pale Horse? Conceptualizing Narcotics Production in Southern Afghanistan and its relationship to the Narcoterror Nexus, Small Wars and Insurgencies, Vol. 20. No. 1 March 2009.
"Operational Manoeuvre Group: Operation SOHIL LARAM II, Kandahar Province, February 2008," Canadian Military History Vol. 18 Issue 1 2009
"Panjwayi Alamo: The Defence of Strongpoint Mushan," Canadian Military History, Vol. 18 No. 3 Summer 2009.
"Strongpoint Mushan: The Battle You Don't Know About," 6 July 2009.
"Taliban Governance: Can Canada Compete?" in Policy Options, June 2009
"The International Security Assistance Force: Origins of a Stabilization Force," Canadian Military Journal, Vol. 4 No. 2, Summer 2003
"The Mechs: Operation TIMUS PREEM, August 2008," Canadian Military History, Vol. 19 No. 3, Summer 2010.
“Army of Darkness: The Insurgent Training System in Pakistan and Afghanistan, 1996-2001.” Small Wars and Insurgencies Vol. 26, No. 3.
“Counterinsurgency vs. ‘COIN’ in Bazaar-e Panjwayi and Panjwayi District, 2008-2010: An Illustrative Study of a Canadian Problem.” in "No Easy Task: Fighting in Afghanistan."
“Was it Worth It? Canadian Intervention in Afghanistan and Perceptions of Success and Failure.” Canadian Military Journal Vol. 14 No. 1.
Confronting the Chaos: A Rogue Historian Returns to Afghanistan Naval Institute Press, 2007
Enduring the Freedom: A Rogue Historian in Afghanistan Potomac Books, 2005.
Fighting For Afghanistan: A Rogue Historian at War, Naval Institute Press, 2009.
Maclean's Articles-Afghanistan
Macleans Articles on Afghanistan
The Canadian Army in Afghanistan, 2001-2011
War in Afghanistan: Eight Battles in the South, 2007-2009.
Africa
Alternative History
Battle of the Bulge: Hitler's Alternate Scenarios Peter Tsouras (ed) Greenhill Books, 2004.
Cold War Hot: Alternate Decisions of the Cold War, Peter Tsouras (ed) Greenhill Books, 2003.
Atomic Express
AVRO Arrow: The Obsession and the Myth.
Book Reviews
"Hell To Pay: Operation DOWNFALL and the Invasion of Japan, 1945-1947," by D.M. Giangreco, reviewed by Sean M. Maloney
"Hunting High Value Targets: Two Reviews," Canadian Army Journal.
"Iran-Iraq War in the Air 1980-1988," Tom Cooper and Farzad Bishop, reviewed in Canadian Military Journal
"Spooks and SOF in Afghanistan: Three Reviews," Canadian Army Journal 10.1 Spring 2007.
Al-Jazeera: The Inside Story of the Arab News Channel That is Challenging the West , Hugh Miles (Grove Press, 2005)
Evil: An Investigation, Lance Morrow (Basic Books, 2003)
GCHQ: THE UNCENSORED STORY OF BRITAIN’S MOST SECRET INTELLIGENCE AGENCY, by Richard J. Aldrich and PROJECT AZORIAN: THE CIA AND THE RAISING OF THE K129, by Norman Polmar and Michael White, reviewed in Canadian Military Journal
Merchant of Death: Money, Guns, Planes and the Man who Makes War Possible by Douglas Farah and Stephen Braun (John Wiley and Sons Inc, Hoboken, NJ, 2007) in Canadian Army Journal.
Ronald Reagan and His Quest to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, Paul Lettow (Random House, 2005)
Shadow Flights: America's Secret Air War Against the Soviet Union, by Curtis Peebles, reviewed in Canadian Military Journal.
TARGET LONDON: UNDER ATTACK FROM THE V-WEAPONS DURING WORLD WAR II, by Christy Campbell, reviewed in RCAF Journal.
The Men Who Stare at Goats, Jon Ronson (Simon and Shuster, 2004) Capsule Review
Canadian Armed Forces Operations
" A Mere Rustle of Leaves: Canadian Strategy and the 1970 FLQ Crisis," Canadian Military Journal, Vol. 1 No. 2, Summer 2000
"A Proportion of their Cavalry Might Be Converted": Light Armoured Vehicle Development for the Canadian Army, 1952-1976." Army Doctrine and Training Bulletin, Vol. 2 No. 4 Winter 1999
"Argo Doesn't Tell the Whole Story," Ottawa Citizen, 15 October 2012
"Domestic Operations: The Canadian Approach," Parameters, Autumn 1997.
"Global Mobile: Flexible Response, Peacekeeping, and the Origins of Forces Mobile Command," Army Doctrine and Training Bulletin.
"In the Service of Forward Security: Peacekeeping, Stabilization, and the Canadian Way of War," in "The Canadian Way of War: Serving the National Interest," Dundurn, 2006.
"Missed Opportunity: Operation BROADSWORD, 4 Brigade, and the Gulf War, 1990-1991," Canadian Military History Vol. 4 Issue 1.
"Never Say Never: Non-Alliance Operations in the Canadian Context," Army Doctrine and Training Bulletin, Vol. 2 No. 2, May 1999
"Purple Haze: Joint Planning in the Canadian Forces from Mobile Command to J-Staff, 1975-1991 (Part 1)," Army Doctrine and Training Bulletin Vol. 5 No. 4 Winter 2002-03
"The Mobile Striking Force and Continental Defence, 1948-1955," Canadian Military History Volume 2 Issue 2, 1993
"The New Warriors," Land Force Doctrine and Training System Army Symposium, May, 2002.
"War With Iraq: Canada's Strategy in the Persian Gulf, 1990-2002." Queen's Centre for International Relations, 2002.
"Who Has Seen The Wind? An Historical Overview of Canadian Special Operations," Canadian Military Journal, Vol. 5 No.3 Autumn 2004
The Royal Canadian Armoured Corps: An Illustrated History co-authored with John Marteinson and Michael McNorgan, Foreword by Desmond Morton. Toronto: Robin Brass, 200
War Without Battles: Canada's NATO Brigade in Germany, 1951-1993, McGraw Hill Ryerson, 1997.
Canadian National Security Policy
"Better Late Than Never: Defence During the Mulroney Years," in Transforming the Nation: Canada and Brian Mulroney, McGill-Queen's University Press, 2007.
"Canadian Values and National Security: Who Decides?" Policy Options, December 2001
"Helpful Fixer or Hired Gun: Why Canada Goes Overseas," Policy Options Jan-Feb 2001
"Strategic Policy: What is it, and why should Canadians give a damn?" (unpublished, 1997)
"The Revolution in Military Affairs: Possible Implications for Canada" Co-authored with Scot Robertson, International Journal (Summer 1999)
Campaigns for International Security: Canada's Defence Policy at the Turn of the Century, McGill- Queen's University Press/SPS, 2004
Force Structure or Forced Structure? The 1994 White Paper on Defence and the Canadian Forces in the 1990s, IRPP Choices
Forging a Nation: Perspectives on the Canadian Military Experience, Vanwell Press, 2002.
Geopolitical Integrity Hugh Segal (ed) Institute for Research on Public Policy (2005)
Memo to Canada: The World Has Changed Again In The New Security Environment: Is the Canadian Military Up to the Challenge?
The Roots of Soft Power: The Trudeau Government, De-NATO-ization and Denuclearization (Queen's Centre for International Relations, 2005)
Warrior Chiefs: Perspectives in Senior Canadian Military Leaders, Bernd Horn and Stephen Harris (eds) Dundurn Publishing 2001.
Development and Reconstruction
"A Watchful Eye: Canada and Soviet Influence Activities in Cold War Africa, 1960-1963," Canadian Army Journal, 13.3 2010
"From Kabul to Konduz: Lessons for Canadian Reconstruction Operations in Afghanistan," Policy Options, May 2005
"Time to Reassess Canada's Foreign Aid," Policy Options, September 2008
Naval Operations
"Maple Leaf Over the Caribbean: Gunboat Diplomacy Canadian Style" in Canadian Gunboat Diplomacy: The Canadian Navy & Foreign Policy edited by Ann Griffiths, Richard Gimblett and Peter Haydon
“Canadian Subs Protect Fisheries” in Proceedings, March 1998
The Hindrance of Military Operations Ashore: Canadian Participation in Operation Sharp Guard, 1993-1995, Centre for Foreign Policy Studies, Dalhousie University
Nuclear Weapons and Nuclear War
"Dr. Strangelove Visits Canada: Project Rustic, Ease, and Bridge, 1958–1963," Canadian Military History Vol. 6 Issue 1.
"Limiting American Nuclear Omnipotence in NATO: The Canadian Method, 1954-1968" Gustav Schmidt (ed) A History of NATO: The First Fifty Years Volume 3 (London: Palgrave Press, 2001)
"North Korean Nukes: Back to the Future?"
"The Canadian Army and Tactical Nuclear Warfare 1955-1962," Canadian Defence Quarterly January 1994.
"The Five Hour War: Exercise BOOKCHECK and Nuclear War, 1960-63.” RCAF Journal Winter 2012.
"The Missiles of Anadyr: Nuking Comox, 1961-1969." Canadian Military Journal Vol. 17 No. 1, Winter 2016
“Dangerously Straining the System: Soviet Nuclear Force Operations and Incidents after ABLE ARCHER 83, 1983-1987.” Concise version published as "Remembering Soviet Nuclear Risks," Survival Vol. 57 Issue 4, 2015
“Secrets of the BOMARC: Re-Examining Canada’s Misunderstood Missile."
UPDATE on BOMARC as Interim ABM
“The Missing Essential Part: Emergency Provision of Nuclear Weapons for the RCAF Air Defence Command, 1961-1964.” Canadian Military History Vol. 23 No. 1 (Winter 2014).
Learning to Love the Bomb: Canada's Nuclear Weapons During the Cold War Potomac Books, 2009.
Peacekeeping and Stabilization Operations
"Exit SFOR, Exit Canada: Peace in Bosnia-Hercegovina?"
"From Myth to Reality Check, from Peacekeeping to Stabilization, " Policy Options, September 2005.
"Lest We Forget...." The Canadian Army and UN Peacekeeping (Again)
"Reluctant Peacekeeper: Canada and the Multinational Force and Observers in the Sinai, 1972-1982," Queen's Centre for International Relations, Occasional Paper 61 May 2008.
"The Forgotten: Lieutenant-General E.L.M. 'Tommy' Burns and UN Peacekeeping in the Middle East," Canadian Army Journal 9.2 Summer 2006
“The Great Canadian Peacekeeping Debate."
Canada and UN Peacekeeping: Cold War by Other Means, Vanwell Books, 2002
Operation KINETIC: Stabilizing Kosovo
The Great Canadian Peacekeeping Debate
Provocations
Russian Resurgence
Special Operations Forces
"Casting Light in the Shadows: Canadian Perspectives on Special Operations Forces," Dundurn Press, 2007.
"SOF Power is Hard Power," The Army Doctrine and Training Bulletin Vol. 3 No. 1 Spring 2000
“Lethal Three-card Monte: SOF and Economy of Effort Operations in Southern Afghanistan," in Special Operations Forces: A National Capability
Choice of Force: Special Operations for Canada, David Last and Bernt Horn (eds) McGill-Queens University Press, 2005.
The Balkans
"What Took So Long? The Hunt for Radovan Karadzic," National Post 23 July 2008.
Chances for Peace: Canadian Soldiers in the Balkans, 1992-1995, Vanwell Pubishers, 2002.
Operation BOLSTER: Canada and the European Community Monitor Mission in the Balkans, 1991-1994 McNaugton Paper No. 7
The Cold War
"Berlin Contingency Planning: Prelude to Flexible Response, 1958-1963," Journal of Strategic Studies, Issue 25.1
"Canada's Arctic Sky Spies: The Director's Cut," Canadian Military Journal, Vol. 9 No. 1
"Fire Brigade or Tocsin? NATO's ACE Mobile Force, Flexible Response, and the Cold War," Journal of Strategic Studies, Vol. 27 No. 4 2004
"Flying the Mukden Gauntlet: Covert RB-45 Flights Against China."
"Parry and Thrust: Canadian Maritime Forces and the Defence of North America, 1954-1962," The Northern Mariner, January 2008.
"Securing Command of the Sea: NATO Naval Planning, 1948-1954," Naval Institute Press, 1995.
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