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Allan English

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Allan English served in the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) and Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) for 25 years in various operational and instructional positions as an air navigator. He completed his MA in War Studies at the Royal Military College of Canada (RMC) in 1987 and taught in the Military Psychology and Leadership Department there until he retired from the CAF in 1991. He completed his PhD in history at 成人大片, Kingston, Ontario in 1993. His book, The Cream of the Crop: Canadian Aircrew 1939-45 examines the RCAF's selection and training procedures and its policies governing aviators who were judged to have a "lack of moral fibre" (LMF). He completed a number of studies on military culture, leadership, and command and control under contract to Defence Research and Development - Canada, one of which was published by McGill-成人大片 Press in 2004 as Understanding Military Culture: A Canadian Perspective. His most recent works in this area are 鈥淐orruption in the Canadian Military? Destroying Trust in the Chain of Command鈥 (2017), 鈥淢aking Sausage鈥: RCAF Doctrine 2005-2016鈥 (2018), and 鈥淭raditional Paradigms of Combat Motivation in the Canadian Military: Teaching Combat Motivation 1985-2010鈥 (2020),  鈥淎fter Arbour 鈥 鈥楻eimagining鈥 RMC,鈥 (2023), 鈥淭he Forgotten Decade: Women and the RCAF 1952-1962鈥 (2023), and "The 2024 Defence Policy Update and its Predecessors: Why the CAF is in a 鈥淒eath Spiral鈥" (2024).

In November 2015 he was given the Queen鈥檚 University Award for Excellence in Graduate Supervision in the Social Sciences and Humanities.

He was the Principal Investigator for a research project that received $210,000 from the Veterans Affairs Canada, Veteran and Family Well-Being Fund to develop, between 2018-23 in partnership with Servicewomen's Salute Canada, online resources to assist female members of the CAF in their transition to civilian life.

Selected Publications

Books and Articles

  • "The 2024 Defence Policy Update and its Predecessors: Why the CAF is in a 鈥楧eath Spiral.鈥" Canadian Military History 33, 1 (2024),

  • 鈥淎fter Arbour 鈥 鈥楻eimagining鈥 RMC,鈥 Canadian Military Journal 23, no. 2 (Spring 2023), 45-53,;

  • 鈥淭he Forgotten Decade: Women and the RCAF 1952-1962.鈥 In On The Wings of War and Peace: The RCAF During the Early Cold War, Randall Wakelam, et al., eds., 205-27. Toronto: Univ. of Toronto Press, 2023,  

  • Editor with James C. Taylor. The Operational Art - Canadian Perspectives: Health Service Support. Kingston, ON: Canadian Defence Academy Press, 2006.
  • Editor. The Operational Art - Canadian Perspectives: Leadership and Command. Kingston, ON: Canadian Defence Academy Press, 2006.
  • Editor with Daniel Gosselin, Howard Coombs, and Laurence M. Hickey. The Operational Art - Canadian Perspectives: Context and Concepts. Kingston, ON: Canadian Defence Academy Press, 2005.
Awards and recognition

Queen鈥檚 University Award for Excellence in Graduate Supervision in the Social Sciences and Humanities (2015)

Graduate supervision
  • Canadian Military History, including historical aspects of military, veteran and family health
  • human behaviour in war; military leadership and command
  • air warfare

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