Canadian Defence Policy Review for a New Mandate /

As readers are undoubtedly aware, the government will release the much-anticipated Defence Policy Review in the very near future, a document that will surely encapsulate its thinking on the state of the global security environment and, importantly, the role that it wishes the nation’s military forces to play within it. [...] It poses a key question for Originally prompted by the debate on both Ottawa and the Canadian voter: the F-35, the circumscribed approach THE INTERNATIONAL CONTEXT Whatever you tell yourself about Canada’s that the Government has taken to For the Government, the question is role in the world, how much foreign and public and parliamentary consultations two-fold. [...] On the other, the United since the fall of the Berlin Wall, initial the CAF because it is the only instrument States, particularly in Congress, will predictions of NATO’s imminent at hand. [...] For the United States, the country’s contributions to allied and our indigenous peoples, permanently questions that it asks of Canada will global security have not kept pace – most stationed military personnel, Canadian turn on the broader approach of the new notably in the use of “defence budget as research scientists, and the enforcement Administration and Congress. [...] The policy and planning horizons of defence may THE DEFENCE PROGRAM well outlast a government’s lifetime, Inevitably, a defence policy statement but the willingness of a government contains some indication about the to communicate its plans signals future of the defence program.