Bill E. Featherstone

My book, Canadian Civil-Military Relations: Re-Examining Defence White Papers and Operations, 1964 to the Present, is finished and currently in print, as well as e-pub.
 
Current tensions in eastern Europe have complicated what the future holds for all Western defence policy, including Canadian concerns. The book, is essentially an extension from my service in the Royal Canadian Navy (1960-1970), and my MA thesis topic, "Civil-Military Relations: The Case of Canada and the Cuban Missile Crisis."

Essential research for the book necessitated an examination of Arctic climate change and how that is impacting Canadian defence policy, security, and sovereignty concerns going forward. That research brought me to the Centre for Earth Observation Science as a Research Affiliate, to examine these Arctic issues as they are severely complicated by increased maritime traffic and surveillance concerns. That research continues.

Certainly not the least of these concerns to be addressed, are how all these issues are impacting Indigenous peoples and other citizens of the Arctic.

My affiliation as a Research Fellow and defence policy expert with the Centre for Defence & Security Studies at the University of Manitoba continues.

Featherstone, Bill E. Canadian Civil-Military Relations: Re-Examining Defence White Papers and Operations, 1964 to the Present. Winnipeg, MB., Kootboneau Press, (Spring 2024).

Featherstone, Bill E. "Arctic Waters Surveillance: Auditor-General Report 2022." Canadian Naval Review, Vol.18 (3), (Winter 2023).

Featherstone, Bill E. "COP 26, Arctic Climate Change and the RCN." Canadian Naval Review. Vol.17 (3), (Spring 2022).

Featherstone, Bill E. "Canadian Civil-Military Relations: 1962 and the Cuban Missile Crisis." Canadian Naval Review, Vol.16 (2), (Fall 2020).