In-person Friends Forum March 20 – Charles Davies: “True North Strong? A Canadian Citizen’s Guide to National Defence”

Friends of the Canadian War Museum

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Friends Forum
Thursday, March 20th, 2025
1:30 – 3:00 pm
CWM Ateliers Rooms C&DPresentation in English

Guest Speaker
Colonel Charles Davies (Retired)

“True North Strong? A Canadian Citizen’s Guide to National Defence”

True North Strong? A Canadian Citizen’s Guide to National Defence aims to provide ordinary Canadians with a plain-language “guidebook” to help them make informed judgements about defence issues.

It also offers insights that will help them assess how well (or not) the governments they elect are managing defence resources and policies. It does not try to influence how they look at the institution, or suggest what they should think about it. Rather, it provides basic information and insights that will help readers make up their own minds.

Author Charles (Chuck) Davies will talk about his path to writing the book and the key messages he hopes readers will take from it.

Colonel Charles Davies (Retired)

Colonel Davies served for thirty-eight years in the Canadian Armed Forces and a further five years as a civilian executive in the Department of National Defence.

He attended le Collège militaire royale de St Jean and graduated from the Royal Military College of Canada in 1976 with a degree in History. He later studied applied technology at the UK Royal Military College of Science and the British Army School of Ammunition, and qualified as an Ammunition Technical Officer.

During his career in National Defence he had a number of unique opportunities to gain broad insights about the institution working in widely varied parts of it. Since retiring in 2013 has been researching and writing about defence and security issues, focusing in particular on defence procurement, defence management and defence policy.

He is a Senior Fellow of the Conference of Defence Associations Institute, a non-partisan and not-for-profit think tank focused on defence and national security issues.

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fcwm-amcg@friends-amis.orgThis in person Friends Forum is a great opportunity to meet one of Canada’s foremost academics on this topic, so come out to the museum and join us.

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In-person Friends Forum March 20 – Charles Davies: “True North Strong? A Canadian Citizen’s Guide to National Defence”

“True North Strong? A Canadian Citizen’s Guide to National Defence”

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