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Lieutenant-Colonel Ian McCulloch, CD
Director of the Centre for National Security Studies
Lieutenant-Colonel Ian Macpherson McCulloch, CD2, is a native of Halifax,
Nova Scotia. Educated in Scotland and Switzerland, he holds an honors
degree in Journalism (1977) from Carleton University and Masters in War
Studies (1996) and Defence Studies (2010), both degrees from the Royal
Military College of Canada. He joined the Canadian Army in 1977 and has
served in a variety of regimental and staff appointments in Canada, Germany
and the USA. Promoted to lieutenant-colonel in 1993, he assumed command of
the Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment) of Canada and in 1996 was
appointed the first Deputy Director of History & Heritage for the Canadian
Forces in Ottawa. In 2000, he became Special Assistant to the Director
General Health Services, Major General Lise Mathieu, and from 2003 to 2007
served on the staff at the HQ Supreme Allied Command Transformation in
Norfolk, Virginia. On posting to the Canadian Forces College FC in 2007 he
was first made the Army/SOF Planner followed by four years as a member of
the Joint Command and Staff Programme Directing Staff. In summer 2012 he was
made Deputy Director Future Projects and was instrumental in the redesign of
the new JCSP 40 programme. In January 2013 he was appointed to his current
position as Director of the Centre for National Security Studies.
LCol
McCulloch is a military historian and author specializing in the Seven Years
War in North America and has published numerous books and articles on that
subject in various international journals and magazines. In 1998 he served
as a historical consultant for the Seven Year’s War episode on CBC’s Canada:
A People’s History, and has also appeared on A&E’s television series Civil
War Journal. An original contributor to Fighting for Canada: Seven Battles
(Toronto, 2000) with a monograph on the Battle of Ticonderoga, 1758, Ian
also wrote the monograph on the battle of Sillery (Ste Foye) the bloodiest
action ever fought on Canadian soil in the companion volume, More Fighting
for Canada: Five Battles, 1760-1944. He has authored two books for Osprey
Publishing (UK) in their WARRIOR series: British Light Infantryman of the
Seven Years War, 1756-1763, North America, (Oxford, 2004) and Highlander in
the French & Indian War (Oxford, 2008). Ian has authored two books for
Robin Brass studios (Toronto) and Purple Mountain Press (NY, USA): “Through
So Many Dangers”; Memoirs and Adventures of Robert Kirk, Late of the Royal
Highland Regiment, the only known memoir of a Highland private soldier who
served in North America during the French & Indian War and Sons of the
Mountains: A History of the Highland Regiments in North America, 1756-1767 (Fleischmanns,
NY & Toronto; 2006). His most recent book is A Bard of Wolfe’Army (2010)
with Robin Brass Studios (Montreal)
Research
Interests
Leadership
& Command History; War and Society, 1603- 2003; Military Medicine, Highland
Soldiers in 18th Century British Army; Colonial and Revolutionary America;
and the Canadian Corps in Great War.
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