Douglas L Bland
Biographic Data
| ID | 254356 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Douglas L Bland |
| GIVEN NAMES | Douglas L |
| FAMILY NAME | Bland |
| SIGNATURE | BLAND D L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Queens University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 42 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Who Killed the Canadian Military
WHO KILLED THE CANADIAN MILITARY? J.L. Granatstein Toronto: HarperFlamingoCanada, 2004. 250pp, $24.95 cloth (ISBN 0-00-200675-8)What Canadian prime ministers say and then do is usually last W word in defence policy; their positions, therefore, deserve our close attention. Wilfrid Laurier, for instance, declared in 1910 that one did not need to take militia too seriously because Canada was well protected by Monroe doctrine. He set out for all time…
Backbone of the Army: Non-Commissioned Officers in the Future Army
Patterns in Liberal Democratic Civil-Military Relations
According to 'the regime theory of civil-military relations,' responsibilities for such relations are conditioned in every state by a nationally evolved regime of 'principles, norms, rules and decision-making procedures around which actor expectations converge' in matters of civil-military relations. This article amplifies this theory by setting out a normative, Westminster-based model of the regime that provides the legal, regulatory, traditiona…
Canada's National Defence
A Unified Theory Of Civil-Military Relations
This article's thesis is that civil control of the military is managed and maintained through the sharing of responsibility for control between civilian leaders and military officers. Specifically, civil authorities are responsible and accountable for some aspects of control and military leaders are responsible and accountable for others. Although some responsibilities for control may merge, they are not fused. The relationship and arrangement of…
A Sow's Ear from a Silk Purse: Abandoning Canada's Military Capabilities
All history is a tale of 'slights and fights and spirits vexed,' and we must expect such unpleasantness as an assured thing, whereas peace is a good unguaranteed - dependent upon the unknowable interior dispositions of our friends. St Augustine, The City of God, 426 ADCANADA TODAY IS AN UNMILITARY NATION BY CHOICE, not by character. Political leaders habitually abandon military power as an instrument of national security and defence policy. No on…
New Weapons, Old Politics: America's Military Procurement Muddle
Trends in Canadian Security Policy And Commitments
Canadian governments actively promoted the creation of NATO and demonstrated commitment to an Atlanticist security orientation throughout the Alliance's formative years. The goal of ensuring ongoing yet constrained American engagement in European security affairs obviously accounted for this early Canadian support for the North Atlantic concept. But there were composite motives at play, including a predisposition for multilateralism over an exclu…
Institutionalizing ambiguity: The management review group and the reshaping of the defence policy process in Canada
The Department of National Defence (dnd) and the Canadian Armed Forces (CF) have been the subject of many studies intended to elicit a better return from defence efforts. None of these studies have been at all comprehensive. The 1971 white paper, Defence in the 70s , introduced a new study aimed at “ensuring maximum effectiveness” in DND. The 1972 Management Review Group (MRC) report changed the entire administrative structure of DND and the CF, …
A Unified Theory Of Civil-Military Relations
This article's thesis is that civil control of the military is managed and maintained through the sharing of responsibility for control between civilian leaders and military officers. Specifically, civil authorities are responsible and accountable for some aspects of control and military leaders are responsible and accountable for others. Although some responsibilities for control may merge, they are not fused. The relationship and arrangement of…
Patterns in Liberal Democratic Civil-Military Relations
According to 'the regime theory of civil-military relations,' responsibilities for such relations are conditioned in every state by a nationally evolved regime of 'principles, norms, rules and decision-making procedures around which actor expectations converge' in matters of civil-military relations. This article amplifies this theory by setting out a normative, Westminster-based model of the regime that provides the legal, regulatory, traditiona…
Who Killed the Canadian Military
WHO KILLED THE CANADIAN MILITARY? J.L. Granatstein Toronto: HarperFlamingoCanada, 2004. 250pp, $24.95 cloth (ISBN 0-00-200675-8)What Canadian prime ministers say and then do is usually last W word in defence policy; their positions, therefore, deserve our close attention. Wilfrid Laurier, for instance, declared in 1910 that one did not need to take militia too seriously because Canada was well protected by Monroe doctrine. He set out for all time…
New Weapons, Old Politics: America's Military Procurement Muddle
Trends in Canadian Security Policy And Commitments
Canadian governments actively promoted the creation of NATO and demonstrated commitment to an Atlanticist security orientation throughout the Alliance's formative years. The goal of ensuring ongoing yet constrained American engagement in European security affairs obviously accounted for this early Canadian support for the North Atlantic concept. But there were composite motives at play, including a predisposition for multilateralism over an exclu…
Institutionalizing ambiguity: The management review group and the reshaping of the defence policy process in Canada
The Department of National Defence (dnd) and the Canadian Armed Forces (CF) have been the subject of many studies intended to elicit a better return from defence efforts. None of these studies have been at all comprehensive. The 1971 white paper, Defence in the 70s , introduced a new study aimed at “ensuring maximum effectiveness” in DND. The 1972 Management Review Group (MRC) report changed the entire administrative structure of DND and the CF, …
Trends in Canadian Security Policy And Commitments
Canadian governments actively promoted the creation of NATO and demonstrated commitment to an Atlanticist security orientation throughout the Alliance's formative years. The goal of ensuring ongoing yet constrained American engagement in European security affairs obviously accounted for this early Canadian support for the North Atlantic concept. But there were composite motives at play, including a predisposition for multilateralism over an exclu…
New Weapons, Old Politics: America's Military Procurement Muddle
A Sow's Ear from a Silk Purse: Abandoning Canada's Military Capabilities
All history is a tale of 'slights and fights and spirits vexed,' and we must expect such unpleasantness as an assured thing, whereas peace is a good unguaranteed - dependent upon the unknowable interior dispositions of our friends. St Augustine, The City of God, 426 ADCANADA TODAY IS AN UNMILITARY NATION BY CHOICE, not by character. Political leaders habitually abandon military power as an instrument of national security and defence policy. No on…
Canada's National Defence
A Unified Theory Of Civil-Military Relations
This article's thesis is that civil control of the military is managed and maintained through the sharing of responsibility for control between civilian leaders and military officers. Specifically, civil authorities are responsible and accountable for some aspects of control and military leaders are responsible and accountable for others. Although some responsibilities for control may merge, they are not fused. The relationship and arrangement of…
Patterns in Liberal Democratic Civil-Military Relations
According to 'the regime theory of civil-military relations,' responsibilities for such relations are conditioned in every state by a nationally evolved regime of 'principles, norms, rules and decision-making procedures around which actor expectations converge' in matters of civil-military relations. This article amplifies this theory by setting out a normative, Westminster-based model of the regime that provides the legal, regulatory, traditiona…
Backbone of the Army: Non-Commissioned Officers in the Future Army
Who Killed the Canadian Military
WHO KILLED THE CANADIAN MILITARY? J.L. Granatstein Toronto: HarperFlamingoCanada, 2004. 250pp, $24.95 cloth (ISBN 0-00-200675-8)What Canadian prime ministers say and then do is usually last W word in defence policy; their positions, therefore, deserve our close attention. Wilfrid Laurier, for instance, declared in 1910 that one did not need to take militia too seriously because Canada was well protected by Monroe doctrine. He set out for all time…
Political science (9 works) · Law (7 works) · Politics (6 works) · Defense, Military, and Policy Studies (5 works) · Economics (5 works) · Management (5 works) · Military and Defense Studies (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Canadian Policy and Governance (4 works) · Law (4 works)