David A Charters

Biographic Data

ID382589
NAMEDavid A Charters
GIVEN NAMESDavid A
FAMILY NAMECharters
SIGNATURECHARTERS D A
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of New Brunswick
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS12
TOTAL CITATIONS11
AUTHOR COUNT10
EDITOR COUNT2
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1984
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX2

  • Sigint below zero: The indications and warning role of Canadian Forces Station Alert, 1958–1975

    David A ChartersARTICLEIntelligence & National Security2026

    Since 1958 Canadian Forces Station (CFS) Alert has been Canada’s most important signals intelligence base monitoring Russian military activity and communications in the Arctic. This article asks: how much can be learned about that station’s Indications and Warning operations from declassified documents and interviews with former station personnel? It provides a unique look inside a SIGINT station’s origins, intercept priorities and targets, colle…

  • Modernizing Maritimes Motorsport: Creating Atlantic Motorsport Park, 1959-1979

    David A ChartersARTICLEAcadiensis2025

    This article uses the creation of Atlantic Motorsport Park (AMP), the only purpose-built road racing circuit in Atlantic Canada, as a lens to explain the wider efforts to modernize sports car competition in the region. Those efforts paralleled the contemporaneous regional political attempts to embrace industrial modernity that culminated in the illfated Bricklin sports car. Just as major changes in the auto industry helped to sink the Bricklin pr…

  • Canadian Military Intelligence in Afghanistan

    David A ChartersARTICLEInternational Journal of…2012

    Additional informationNotes on contributorsDavid A. ChartersDr. David A. Charters, Professor of Military History and Senior Fellow at the Gregg Centre for the Study of War and Society at the University of New Brunswick, specializes in the fields of counterinsurgency and intelligence. He was for twenty years Director of the university's Centre for Conflict Studies, the predecessor to the Gregg Centre, and has edited the Centre's Journal of Conflic…

  • Chequered Pasts: Sports Car Racing and Rallying in Canada, 1951-1991

    David A Charters, David ChartersBOOKChequered Pasts2007

    Based on extensive research into the CASC's records and dozens of interviews with former competitors and officials, The Chequered Past opens a window into the rich but virtually unknown history of the auto sport, and claims for it a place in Canadian sports history.

  • Something Old, Something New…? Al Qaeda, Jihadism, and Fascism

    David A ChartersARTICLETerrorism and Political Violence2007

    This article attempts to answer the question: Is Al Qaeda a new fascist movement? It explores this issue by comparing the situations and ideas which gave birth to fascism and jihadism and the beliefs and behaviours common to both movements. The essay demonstrates a close coherence between the two movements, but concludes that the differences between them are significant enough to proclaim that they are not the same. Indeed, Al Qaeda's jihadism ma…

  • The amateur revolutionaries: A reassessment of the FLQ

    David A ChartersARTICLETerrorism and Political Violence1997Cited by: 1References: 1

    Although Canada has experienced a wide variety of forms of political terrorism, only the FLQ's attack on federalism has earned a lasting place in Canadian historical memory, a place achieved without attaining its goal of an independent Quebec. Using new sources, this article explains this conundrum by reassessing the effectiveness of the FLQ's campaign. It will demonstrate that the very thing that constituted the FLQ's only success ‐ its ability …

  • The Deadly Sin of Terrorism: Its Effect on Democracy and Civil Liberty in Six Countries

    Francis Fukuyama, David A ChartersARTICLEForeign Affairs1995Cited by: 7

    Preface Introduction The Democratic Framework of Counter-Terrorism by Grant Wardlaw Great Britain and the Response to International Terrorism from 1970 to 1992 by Bruce W. Warner Democratic Responses to International Terrorim in Germany by Stephen M. Sobieck Italy and International Terrorism by Robert H. Evans France and International Terrorism: Problem and Response by Michael M. Harrison Countering Terrorism in Israel by Noemi Gal-Or The America…

  • The Deadly Sin of Terrorism: Its Effect on Democracy and Civil Liberty in Six Countries

    David A ChartersBOOKThe Deadly Sin of Terrorism1994

    This comparative study of terrorism and counter-measures and their effect upon democratic practices and traditions is published under the auspices of the University of New Brunswick Centre for Conflict Studies in Canada. David A. Charters, Editor, has brought together a team of well-known experts to assess the nature of international terrorism in recent years and the possible effect of anti-terrorist policies and counter-measures upon democratic …

  • Military History and the Military Profession

    Brian Bond, David A Charters et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Military History1994

  • Democratic Responses to International Terrorism

    David A ChartersBOOKDemocratic Responses to…1991

    Here is an interdisciplinary approach to the problems of terrorism, featuring a variety of perspectives and effective responses. The authors examine the phenomenon of terrorism from different angles, noting its implications for democratic states, and thoroughly explore various aspects of response, from policy and planning to specific counter measures. Published under the Transnational Publishers imprint.

  • The British Army and Jewish Insurgency in Palestine, 1945–47

    Open AccessDavid A ChartersBOOKBritish Army and Jewish…1989

    The first comprehensive scholarly study of the British Army's campaign against the Jewish insurgency in postwar Palestine, this book shows how outdated doctrine, traditional resistance to change, and

  • Dezinformatsia Active Measures in Soviet Strategy

    David A Charters, David Charters et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal Canada s…1984Cited by: 3