GUEST SPEAKERS, EVENTS AND ACTIVITIES
Feb LCol Geoff Hampton, Directing Staff, CACSC Topic: Contemporary Targeting - The Process and Legality
Jan Asst. Commr. John Neily, RCMP (Ret'd) Topic: Human Behaviour in Organizational Risk - "Tools or Twits" in Positions of Authority
Nov Lt (N) AC ("Andy") Ashworth, VR, MSc, PEng Topic: The Canadian Cadet Movement in 2019
Oct BGen David Martin, CD (Ret'd) Topic: Shaping Canada's Modern Maritime Helicopter Force: Experiences from the 1990-1991 Gulf War
Sept Col Ted Nurse, CD, MA (Ret'd) Topic: The Legend of Danny McLeod: A Tank Troop Leader at War
May LCol Gord Hagar, CD Topic: The Canadian Operational Support Hub (Europe)
Apr BGen Ken Watkin, OMM, CD, QC (Ret'd) Topic: Law, Ethics and Targeted Killing in 21st Century Warfare
Mar Paul Van Nest, MSc Topic: The Impact of British North America on the American Civil War
Feb Col Chuck Oliviero, CD, PhD (Ret'd) Topic: The Birth of Enlightened Command - The Origins and Concepts of Auftragstaktik
Jan Dr. Emily Spencer, Dir., Education & Research Centre Canadian Special Operations Force Command Topic: Building and Sustaining Effective Diverse Teams Within a Military Context
2018
Dec Wassail (Festive food and fellowship) - Mon. Dec. 17 at 1300 hrs
Nov BGen Ken Watkin, OMM, CD, QC (Ret'd) Topic: The Role of Police Forces in Urban Warfare
Oct Col James ("Jim") T.J. Calvin, MSC, CD (Ret'd) Topic: The "Medak Pocket" Operation September 1993: Personal Experiences & Aftermath
Sept Laurence ("Larry") Brooks, BA, Special Advisor to Public Safety Canada and the RCMP Topic: The Relationship Between the Canadian Security Intelligence Service and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police
June LCol Steve Taylor, MBE, CO PWOR Topic: The Challenges of Command: How Counter Terrorist and Insurgency Operations Prepared Me for Unit Command in the Canadian Army Reserve
June RKUSI Summer BBQ
May Dr. Meghan Fitzpatrick, SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow, War Studies (RMCC) Topic: The Human Cost of War: Soldiers and Psychiatrists in Korea, 1950-1953
Apr LTCOL Andrew Behan, CSM, Australian Army LO to the Canadian Army Topic: Peacekeeping Operations –The Australian Army Experience in East Timor: 1999-2000
Mar BGen Ken Watkin, OMM, CD, QC (Ret'd) Topic: Military Evidence Collection on the Battlefield
Feb Forest Edwards, BA (Hons) Topic: Deconstructing the Shia Crescent
Jan AGM followed by LTC Andrew ("Andy") J. Whitford (US Army), PhD Topic: The War that Would Not End: Britain, Refugees, and the Aftermath of the Vietnam War
2017
Dec Wassail (Festive food and fellowship) - Sat. Dec. 16 at 1300 hrs
Nov Maj Daniel Eustace, CD, PhD (Ret'd), Director, Defence and Security Studies Program (RCMI) Topic: Design Thinking and the Future of Military Planning
Oct Lt Col Richard ("Dick") J.D. Ovey, psc(j), British Defence Liaison Staff Topic: British Army International Engagement Policy
Sept Col C.M. ("Spike") Hazleton, OMM, MSM, CD (Ret'd) Topic: Reflections as an attaché in Italy
Aug RKUSI Annual BBQ
June BGen Greg R. Smith, CD Topic: Experiences in Iraq as COS Combined Joint Forces Land Component Command - Operation Inherent Resolve
May Col Mark Hutchings, CD (Ret'd) Topic: The Hill 70 Project
Apr Donald G. Mahar, RCMP/CSIS (Ret'd) Topic: Soviet double agent Yevgeni Brik - Note location: a joint presentation with the Military Communications and Electronics Museum (CFB Kingston)
Mar Lt (N) AC ("Andy") Ashworth, VR, MSc, PEng Topic: (Sea, Army, Air) Cadet Program Renewal
Feb Richard Brisson, MSc Topic: The History of Camp 'X'
Jan LtCol (GS) Andreas Vogler, German Armed Forces Visiting Defence Fellow, Centre for International and Defence Policy, Queen's University Topic: Experiences and Analysis of Afghanistan Operations
2016
Dec Wassail (Festive food and fellowship)
Nov LCol Pascal Ratté, CD Topic:The Canadian Forces School of Military Intelligence: An Overview
Oct Alan Jones, BA, former Assistant Director for Technology (CSIS), and Pierre LaCompte, former DDG Ops of IR (CSIS) Topic: CSIS: The Service's Role in Afghanistan
Sept LCol Lawrence Zaporzan, OMM, CD (Ret'd), former Defence Attaché to Lebanon, Syria, Jordan and Cyprus Topic: A former attaché's perspective on the Middle East
June Members' Dinner on the Terrace (Tues, 21 June)
May Richard Brisson, MSc Topic: WWII and the German Enigma - Cryptology, Cryptanalysis and Exploitation
Apr Ambassador Louis A. Delvoie (Ret'd), Centre for International and Defence Policy, Queen's University Topic: The Islamic State
Mar LCol Lawrence Zaporzan, OMM, CD (Ret'd), former Defence Attaché to Lebanon, Syria, Jordan and Cyprus Topic: A former attaché's perspective on the Middle East [cancelled due to inclement weather]
Feb Maj Errol G. MacEachern, CD, Canadian Army Land Warfare Centre Topic: Light Forces Development
Jan Film - Operation Husky, commentary by Col George Javornik, CD (Ret'd)
2015
Nov Brent Holland, BFA, radio host and author Topic: The Kennedy Assassination
Oct Col Stephen W. Hall, CD, Director, Applied Military Science, RMCC Topic: The Canadian Army's Applied Military Science program
Sept Maj John Tyler, CD (RCMP/CSIS) (Ret'd) Topic: The History of Intelligence
May Phil Osanic, BA, LLM Topic: 20th - 21st Century CAF Service Rifles, Marksmanship Principles, and Small Arms Doctrine
Apr Peter Milliken, PC, OC, FRSC Topic: The Role of the Speaker of the House
Mar Neil Bernard Dukas, CD, MA Topic: Hawaiian Wars - The Battle of Nuuanu, 1795
Feb LCol Doug Bland, PhD (Ret'd) Topic: Time Bomb: Canada and the First Nations
Jan Col Karl Michaud, CD, Director, Applied Military Science, RMCC
2014
Nov LCol Jeffrey M. Barr, CD Topic: Op Proteus: The Tactical Situation
Oct BGen Ken Watkin, OMM, CD, QC (Ret'd) Topic: 21st Century Conflict: Definitely Not Your Grandfather’s War
Sept Prof Lubomyr Luciuk, PhD Topic: Ukraine
May MGen Dean Milner, OMM , MSC, CD Topic: The Canadians in Afghanistan Transition from War Fighting to Training
Apr Tim Sugrue, MA Topic: The IV Princess Louise Dragoon Guards: Origins & Memories
Mar Neil Bernard Dukas, CD, MA Topic: A Brief Military History of the Hawaiian Kingdom (and the surprising Canadian connection)
Feb Supt Guy Rook, RCMP, OIC ‘O’ Division Topic: The case of Lt (N) Delisle, convicted of spying for Russia
Jan MGen Jim Ferron, OMM, MSC, CD Topic: DART in Philippines & other things
2013
Nov Ken Weber, Prof Emeritus (University of Toronto) Topic: “Why Canadian History is Not Boring”
Oct BGen Serge Labbé, MSC, CD (Ret'd) Topic: Will speak on his experiences in Afghanistan
May A Second World War Retrospective: Canadian Army Film Unit Newsreels from 1943-1944 (Battlefields: Italy, NW Europe, Homefront)
Apr Col Howard Coombs, CD Topic: "Integrating Operations: A Perspective On Canada's Activities In Afghanistan"2004 and 2010-2011"
Mar Ambassador Louis A. Delvoie (Ret'd), Centre for International and Defence Policy, Queen's University Topic: India: An Emerging World Power???
Feb Maj John Grodzinski, CD, PhD Topic: "The Enemy kept up a heavy and destructive fire": The British Raid on Sackets Harbor May 27-29, 1813
Jan Col Jody Nelson, US Army, Senior Service College and Visiting Defence Fellow, Queen's University Topic: "Commanding in Afghanistan: Soldiers to Afghans"