{"id":18934,"date":"2013-02-07T00:02:46","date_gmt":"2013-02-07T05:02:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=18934"},"modified":"2019-04-23T14:13:24","modified_gmt":"2019-04-23T18:13:24","slug":"almost-a-clean-sweep-of-top-canadian-military-leadership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2013\/02\/07\/almost-a-clean-sweep-of-top-canadian-military-leadership\/","title":{"rendered":"Almost a clean sweep of top Canadian military leadership"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/acoyne\/statuses\/299233682122747904\" target=\"_blank\">Andrew Coyne<\/a> noted in a tweet, &#8220;In some countries, this would be big news&#8221;. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ottawacitizen.com\/news\/Defence+sweeps+senior+officers+sign+major+changes+come\/7926867\/story.html\" target=\"_blank\">Lee Berthiaume<\/a> in the <em>Ottawa Citizen<\/em> on the upheaval at the top of Canada&#8217;s defence establishment:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Spring cleaning has come early at the Department of National Defence as the Conservative government announced Wednesday it was sweeping out a number of the military\u2019s top officers \u2014 including the head of the Canadian Army and the Royal Canadian Navy \u2014 in a major shuffle.<\/p>\n<p>The moves represent a dramatic change at the top as National Defence faces a major shift in focus from the days of the Afghanistan war and increasing budgets, to a state of deep budget cuts and limited deployments.<\/p>\n<p>[. . .]<\/p>\n<p>In addition to [vice-chief of defence staff, Vice-Admiral Bruce] Donaldson, those leaving include Royal Canadian Navy commander Vice-Admiral Paul Maddison and Canadian Army commander Lt.-Gen. Peter Devlin.<\/p>\n<p>Maddison\u2019s deputy, Rear-Admiral Mark Norman, will take over as commander of the navy; Lt.-Gen. Marquis Hainse, who was serving as deputy commander to the NATO headquarters in Naples, Italy, is the new head of the army.<\/p>\n<p>Lt.-Gen. Walter Semianiw, who oversaw all Canadian military missions inside Canada and North America, including the Caribbean, is also on the way out, the apparent casualty of a Defence Department restructuring that started last year.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Andrew Coyne noted in a tweet, &#8220;In some countries, this would be big news&#8221;. Lee Berthiaume in the Ottawa Citizen on the upheaval at the top of Canada&#8217;s defence establishment: Spring cleaning has come early at the Department of National Defence as the Conservative government announced Wednesday it was sweeping out a number of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,84,5],"tags":[31,697,448,214,745],"class_list":["post-18934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cancon","category-government","category-military","tag-army","tag-budget","tag-canadianforces","tag-rcaf","tag-rcn"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-4Vo","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18934"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18934\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48017,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18934\/revisions\/48017"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}