Professional Military Education and Sea-Blindness: Lessons from the Royal Canadian Navy
By Commander Darin MacDonald, RAN*
This article published in the Australian Naval Review, 2021, Issue 1, in June 2021 is a revised version of one originally published on The Forge, and has been published here with permission from The Forge.
In the late summer and early autumn of 2001, I was a recently commissioned Acting Sub-Lieutenant in the Royal Canadian Navy (RCN) conducting Officer Professional Development Program, a residential joint professional military education (JPME) product taught over a three-month period.