Research
The primary focus of my historical research is war studies and defence analysis. I research official history, strategy, leadership, maritime operations, air and sea power, diplomacy and naval policy.
My PhD thesis on the Royal Naval Air Service and the evolution of British Naval Aviation during the First World War was completed in 2019, and published as The Development of British Naval Aviation, 1914-1918 in 2021. I contributed to the Canadian Public Administration article on the problems of long-term procurement in the Canadian Surface Combatant project (2022), and the Policy & Society article on Canadian and Australian naval shipbuilding (2023). My article on the contribution of the Royal Naval Air Service to the anti-submarine campaign of 1917-1918 was published in the British Journal for Military History (2018).
Recent research output:
New documents raise questions about Canada’s lengthy naval shipbuilding delays
The Royal Navy and the Origins of Strategic Bombing, 1916-1918
Royal Navy Trade Defence in the English Channel during the First World War
Ukraine war highlights the Canadian military’s urgent need for a lifeline
The Battle of Tsushima Strait: A Technological Assessment
Navy, Air Force need to sell Canadians on their desperate need for new equipment
The Air Division of the Naval Staff, 1918-1919
Phormio, the Athenians, and the Origins of the Peloponnesian War (431-427)
Canada cannot claim Arctic sovereignty unless we find the political will to replace our submarines
Twelve Days in October: Planning Operation Urgent Fury, 1983
The Problems of Long-Term Procurement in The Canadian Surface Combatant Programme, 1994-2021
The Development of British Naval Aviation, 1914-1918
After Trafalgar: The Royal Navy & the Napoleonic Wars, 1806 – 1816
Operation Anaconda: Victory and Defeat in Afghanistan, March 2002
Naval Aviation and the Grand Fleet: Airships to Aircraft Carriers
Trade Defence in the English Channel, 1914 – 1918
Unrestricted Submarine Warfare, 1917 – 1918
England and the Closing of the Middle Ages, the Battle of Bosworth, 22 August 1485
The Royal Naval Air Service and the Evolution of Naval Aviation in Britain, 1914-1918
Operation Urgent Fury: Cold War Crisis in Grenada
The Career of Admiral Sir George Pocock
The Royal Naval Air Service and Anti-Submarine Warfare in the North Sea, 1917 – 1918
Captain Charles Middleton and the Seven Years’ War
Keeping the Genie in the Bottle: RNAS Anti-Submarine Warfare
Armour Tactics at the Battle of 73 Easting
Bunker Hill: Amphibious and Infantry Operations
Infantry Tactics at the Battle of Crecy
Any Other Name: The Origin of HMS Dreadnought (SSN, S101)
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