Maloney, Sean Michael

Person

Maloney, Sean Michael

16 Oct. 1967-

Dr. Sean Maloney is a history professor at Royal Military College of Canada, and taught in the War Studies Programme there for ten years. He is also the Historical Advisor to the Canadian Forces Chief of Land Staff and Senior Fellow at the Queen's Centre for International Relations. He obtained his BA and MA from the University of New Brunswick in 1990 and 1992, and his PhD from Temple University in 1998. He is currently the historical advisor to the Canadian Army for the war in Afghanistan. He previously served as the historian for 4 Canadian Mechanized Brigade, the Canadian Army’s primary Cold War NATO commitment, right after the re-unification of Germany and at the start of Canada’s long involvement in the Balkans. Dr. Maloney has extensive field experience in that region, specifically in Croatia, Bosnia, Kosovo and Macedonia from 1995 to 2001.

In addition, Dr. Maloney has travelled throughout the Middle East studying the various Arab-Israeli conflicts and the myriad of international peacekeeping efforts designed to contain them. His work on stabilization and peacekeeping operations was interrupted by the 9-11 attacks and from 2001 Dr. Maloney has focused nearly exclusively on the war against the Al Qaeda movement, and in particular on the Afghanistan component of that war. He has traveled regularly to Afghanistan since 2003 to observe coalition operations in that country and became the first Canadian military historian to go into ground combat at the company level since the Second World War. His publications include "Operation KINETIC: The Canadians in Kosovo 1999-2000," "Canada and UN Peacekeeping: Cold War by Other Means," "Learning to Love the Bomb: Canada, the Cold War, and Nuclear Weapons 1951-1970," and "Enduring the Freedom: A Rogue Historian in Afghanistan."

Draft

• English