A One Ocean Fleet

The Atlantic and Canadian Naval Policy

Bibliographic Data

ID3139230
AuthorsJoel J Sokolsky (Royal Ottawa Mental Health Centre, corresponding author)
Year2005
Volume34
Issue93
Pages299-314
Publication date2005-04-12
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueCahiers de géographie du Québec (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0007-9766 • E-ISSN: 1708-8968
PublisherConsortium Erudit (PUBLISHER • CA)
DOI10.7202/022129ar
OpenAlexW2122810304
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited11

From the beginnings of the Cold War until the present the Canadian Navy has been a one ocean fleet, postured primarily to supply anti-submarine warfare (ASW) forces to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) in the Atlantic. Various plans, including the 1987 White Paper on defence, to give the Navy more balance in terms of its areas of operation, mix of forces and missions, have been largely unsuccessful. The main reason for this is that the NATO maritime role has been directly related to the long-standing Canadian foreign policy objective of participating in this multilateral Alliance. In addition, forces earmarked for NATO's Atlantic Command (ACLANT) could also be used for North American maritime roles in cooperation with the United States Navy (USN) and for non-military sovereignty protection tasks. Recent dramatic changes in the international security environment combined with domestic budgetary pressures are likely to result in a continuation of this Atlantic orientation in Canadian naval policy

Aeronautics · Alliance · Business · Cold war · International trade · Navy · North Atlantic Treaty · Political science · Politics · Sovereignty · Submarine · Canadian Policy and Governance · Defense, Military, and Policy Studies · Engineering · Geology · Law · Military and Defense Studies · Oceanography

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