Jayson Geroux

Jayson Geroux, Major, has been an infantry officer for thirty years with The Royal Canadian Regiment (The RCR) of the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF).  He is considered one of the world’s leading students on the subject of urban operations/warfare and one of the world’s leading urban warfare historians.

Jayson has his Bachelor of Arts Degree in Honours History from Wilfrid Laurier University where he focused his studies on 20th century military history.  He also has a Masters of Arts Degree in Military History from the Brigadier Milton Gregg Centre for the Study of War and Society at the University of New Brunswick, in which his Masters thesis was focused on the urban battle of Ortona, Italy during the Second World War (1939-1945). 

He deployed on one domestic operation while he was a Private in 2nd Battalion, The Royal Canadian Regiment (2 RCR) and after he received his commission and became an officer he deployed on two foreign operational tours of duty. The first was as a platoon commander to Bosnia-Herzegovina in the Former Yugoslavia in 2001 with 3rd Battalion, The Royal Canadian Regiment (3 RCR), and the second as the Officer Commanding an advisory sub-unit to the Afghan National Army (ANA) in Kabul, Afghanistan in 2012 with 2 RCR.

From 2002-2012 he was largely focused on teaching small-unit tactics (the “hands and feet” skills).  However, after his involvement in the urban battle of Kabul, Afghanistan on 15 April 2012 he has spent many years focusing his studies and teaching military personnel all over the world on the planning, tactics and sustainment of urban operations from company to division levels.  As he is also a passionate military historian, he has researched, written and discussed many urban warfare historical case studies both online and in-print.

He is often requested by military units and civilian organizations around the world to teach, through lectures and podcasts both online and in-person, a myriad of specialized subjects related to urban operations and urban warfare history, and is also pleased to have reviewed/critiqued many other friends’ and colleagues’ urban operations-related doctrinal publications, books, journals, manuals and articles.  He is frequently invited to speak/provide input at international urban operations-related conferences and working groups.  He researched and rewrote the CAFs series of urban operations doctrinal publications and was the guest editor for two urban warfare-themed editions of the Canadian Army Journal.

As a result, Jayson has approximately twenty-four years of professional, personal, practical, operational, instructional, academic, historical and doctrinal knowledge, experience, training and writing in urban operations and urban warfare history.