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Robert H. Caldwell (1939- ) served in the Canadian Army for thirty-five years. He completed Technical and General Staff courses at the Royal Military College of Science at Shrivenham, the British Army Staff College at Camberley, and the Joint Warfare Establishment at Old Sarum. He passed the Master of Arts programme in War Studies at the Royal Military College at Kingston in 1987, and thereafter was employed as a researcher and historian at the Operational and Research and Analysis Establishment, followed by the Directorate of History, in National Defence Headquarters, Ottawa. Mr. Caldwell has been a member of the Naval History Team for fourteen years, an is a contributing author to the two volume official operational history of the Royal Canadian Navy in the Second World War. He has completed several studies on the “The RCN and Unification” for Volume III, the official post-war naval history to be published in 2010. He is presently the Canadian representative on the first Combined Operations naval history project working with historians from the United States, Britain and Australia. Caldwell is concentrating on the Canadian Navy in the Arabian Sea and Gulf from 1991 to 2003. In late 2006 Mr. Caldwell was tasked to begin the preparations for an official history of the Canadian Forces experience in Afghanistan. He visited with Canadian troops in Afghanistan in October and November 2006, and again in April and May 2007. He will act as the NATO historian at Regional Command (South) in Kandahar, Afghanistan from May to August 2008.