Customs and Traditions of the Canadian Armed Forces
Author | : Edward C. Russell |
Publisher | : Deneau & Greenberg : Department of the Secretary of State |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : Canada |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Edward C. Russell |
Publisher | : Deneau & Greenberg : Department of the Secretary of State |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : Canada |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Allan Douglas English |
Publisher | : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP |
Total Pages | : 222 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780773527157 |
Examines military culture from a theoretical and a practical point of view Considers conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq that have highlighted the importance of culture as a concept in analyzing the ability of military organizations to perform certain tasks Culture has been described as the bedrock of military effectiveness because it influences everything an armed service does. The recent conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq have highlighted the importance of culture as a concept in analyzing the ability of military organizations to perform certain tasks. In fact, a military's culture may determine its preferred way of fighting and dealing with other challenges, like incorporating new technologies, more than its doctrine or organizational structure. of view. It focuses on the Canadian and American military cultures, and it provides the first detailed examination of the culture of the Canadian Forces. It also compares their culture to that of the US armed forces. The book concludes that while the culture of the Canadian Forces has been Americanized to a certain extent, the culture of the US armed forces, due to changes in their personnel and roles, has experienced a certain degree of Canadianization at the end of the 20th and the beginning of the 21st centuries.
Author | : Sir John Hackett |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 52 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Armed Forces |
ISBN | : |
Author | : P. Whitney Lackenbauer |
Publisher | : UBC Press |
Total Pages | : 657 |
Release | : 2013-05-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0774824549 |
The Canadian Rangers stand sentinel in the farthest reaches of our country. For more than six decades, this dedicated group of citizen-soldiers has quietly served as Canada's eyes, ears, and voice in isolated coastal and northern communities. Drawing on official records, interviews, and participation in Ranger exercises, Lackenbauer argues that the organization offers an inexpensive way for Canada to "show the flag" from coast to coast to coast. The Rangers have also laid the foundation for a successful partnership between the modern state and Aboriginal peoples, a partnership rooted in local knowledge and crosscultural understanding.
Author | : Edward Charles Russell |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Military ceremonies, honors, and salutes |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Dmitry (Dima) Adamsky |
Publisher | : Stanford University Press |
Total Pages | : 368 |
Release | : 2010-01-27 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0804773807 |
This book studies the impact of cultural factors on the course of military innovations. One would expect that countries accustomed to similar technologies would undergo analogous changes in their perception of and approach to warfare. However, the intellectual history of the Revolution in Military Affairs (RMA) in Russia, the US, and Israel indicates the opposite. The US developed technology and weaponry for about a decade without reconceptualizing the existing paradigm about the nature of warfare. Soviet 'new theory of victory' represented a conceptualization which chronologically preceded technological procurement. Israel was the first to utilize the weaponry on the battlefield, but was the last to develop a conceptual framework that acknowledged its revolutionary implications. Utilizing primary sources that had previously been completely inaccessible, and borrowing methods of analysis from political science, history, anthropology, and cognitive psychology, this book suggests a cultural explanation for this puzzling transformation in warfare. The Culture of Military Innovation offers a systematic, thorough, and unique analytical approach that may well be applicable in other perplexing strategic situations. Though framed in the context of specific historical experience, the insights of this book reveal important implications related to conventional, subconventional, and nonconventional security issues. It is therefore an ideal reference work for practitioners, scholars, teachers, and students of security studies.
Author | : Peter R. Mansoor |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 485 |
Release | : 2019-10-17 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1108485731 |
Examines how military culture forms and changes, as well as its impact on the effectiveness of military organizations.
Author | : Edward C. Russell |
Publisher | : Deneau & Greenberg : Department of the Secretary of State |
Total Pages | : 265 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : Canada |
ISBN | : 9780888790279 |
Author | : Aaron B. O'Connell |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 398 |
Release | : 2012-10-29 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0674067444 |
The Marine Corps has always considered itself a breed apart. Since 1775, America’s smallest armed service has been suspicious of outsiders and deeply loyal to its traditions. Marines believe in nothing more strongly than the Corps’ uniqueness and superiority, and this undying faith in its own exceptionalism is what has made the Marines one of the sharpest, swiftest tools of American military power. Along with unapologetic self-promotion, a strong sense of identity has enabled the Corps to exert a powerful influence on American politics and culture. Aaron O’Connell focuses on the period from World War II to Vietnam, when the Marine Corps transformed itself from America’s least respected to its most elite armed force. He describes how the distinctive Marine culture played a role in this ascendancy. Venerating sacrifice and suffering, privileging the collective over the individual, Corps culture was saturated with romantic and religious overtones that had enormous marketing potential in a postwar America energized by new global responsibilities. Capitalizing on this, the Marines curried the favor of the nation’s best reporters, befriended publishers, courted Hollywood and Congress, and built a public relations infrastructure that would eventually brand it as the most prestigious military service in America. But the Corps’ triumphs did not come without costs, and O’Connell writes of those, too, including a culture of violence that sometimes spread beyond the battlefield. And as he considers how the Corps’ interventions in American politics have ushered in a more militarized approach to national security, O’Connell questions its sustainability.