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| Canadian Military Journal | |
|---|---|
| Title | Canadian Military Journal |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Department of National Defence (Canada) |
| Country | Canada |
| Frequency | Quarterly |
| History | 1994–present |
Canadian Military Journal
The Canadian Military Journal is a quarterly English-language professional journal associated with the Canadian Forces and the Department of National Defence that covers strategic, operational, and tactical issues. It publishes articles on doctrine, doctrine development, force development, defense policy, security studies, and international operations, often engaging with debates involving NATO, NORAD, United Nations peacekeeping, and coalition operations. The Journal serves as a forum for serving officers, veterans, academics, and analysts from institutions such as the Royal Military College of Canada, Canadian Forces College, and numerous universities.
The Journal was established in the 1990s following debates about post–Cold War restructuring that involved figures linked to the Department of National Defence, the Chief of the Defence Staff, and parliamentary committees concerned with defence. Its inception coincided with international events including the Gulf War, the dissolution of the Soviet Union, and NATO enlargement, which prompted discourse among scholars associated with the International Institute for Strategic Studies, the Council on Foreign Relations, and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Over time the Journal reflected shifts seen in Canadian deployments to Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Balkans, Afghanistan, and Libya, and engaged with doctrinal changes paralleled in publications from the U.S. Army War College, the Royal United Services Institute, and the Australian Strategic Policy Institute.
The Journal emphasizes peer-reviewed and practitioner articles on campaigns, joint operations, intelligence, logistics, cyber operations, and leadership, attracting contributions that reference historical cases such as the Battle of Vimy Ridge, the Dieppe Raid, the Korean War, the Gulf War, and the Afghan campaign. Contributors often draw on sources and debates involving historians and theorists like Hew Strachan, Lawrence Freedman, Colin S. Gray, and John Keegan, and on comparative studies from the RAND Corporation, the Center for Strategic and International Studies, and the Brookings Institution. Regular sections include book reviews, tactical vignettes, doctrinal analyses, and legal studies touching on the Geneva Conventions, the Hague Conventions, and international humanitarian law as debated at the International Court of Justice and in scholarship from Oxford University Press and Cambridge University Press.
Published on a quarterly schedule, the Journal is produced under the auspices of the Department of National Defence and distributed to military units, academic libraries, think tanks, and policy centres across Canada and internationally. Subscribers include personnel from the Royal Canadian Navy, Canadian Army, Royal Canadian Air Force, NATO Allied Command Operations, and officers attending staff colleges such as the Canadian Forces College and the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. Institutional holdings are indexed in library catalogues alongside periodicals from publishers like Taylor & Francis, Springer, and Blackwell, and are cited in academic journals such as International Affairs, Survival, and the Journal of Strategic Studies.
Governance involves editorial oversight linked to defence institutions and advisory input from serving officers, retired flag officers, and academic board members drawn from universities such as the University of Toronto, McGill University, Queen’s University, and the University of British Columbia. Funding flows from departmental budgets allocated by Ministers of National Defence and appropriations approved through Parliament, alongside occasional support or collaboration with research bodies like the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, the Canada Research Chairs program, and federal granting councils. Editorial independence and review practices are periodically discussed in contexts similar to debates at the Parliamentary Budget Office, Auditor General reports, and panels convened by the Conference of Defence Associations Institute.
The Journal has been cited in academic scholarship, defense white papers, parliamentary debates, and doctrinal publications, influencing discourse at institutions such as NATO Headquarters, NORAD Command, the United Nations Department of Peace Operations, and the Inter-American Defence Board. Reviews and citations appear in scholarly outlets including the Canadian Journal of Political Science, International Journal, and Studies in Conflict & Terrorism, and its analyses have informed testimony before committees like the House of Commons Standing Committee on National Defence and forums hosted by the Centre for International Governance Innovation and the Macdonald-Laurier Institute.
Notable contributors have included serving and retired officers, scholars, and practitioners such as former Chiefs of the Defence Staff, academics from the Royal Military College of Canada, and analysts affiliated with institutions like the International Crisis Group, the Hudson Institute, and the Center for a New American Security. Prominent articles have tackled topics including expeditionary operations, counterinsurgency in contexts like Afghanistan, Arctic sovereignty debates involving Arctic Council members, cyber defence strategies referenced by NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence, and analyses of interoperability with allies including the United States, United Kingdom, and France.
Category:Canadian military publications Category:Military journals Category:Canadian Armed Forces