| ID: |
HARP-429 |
| Title: |
A sow’s ear from a silk purse: abandoning Canada’s military capabilities |
| Source: |
International Journal , v.54(1) Wint’98/99 pg 143-174 |
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| Year: |
1999 |
| Pages: |
0 |
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| Keywords: |
Canada, government, human rights, military service, civil and political rights, security, liberty, national defence |
| Abstract: |
CANADA 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 one should be surprised that Canada’s security now depends `upon the unknowable interior dispositions of our friends.’ Military power, measured as capabilities, is occasionally recognized as necessary and important for Canada’s national ends. But more often governments adopt defence policies that result in an irregular, but continuing, loss of military capabilities because they discount the utility of national armed forces. |
| Secured: |
False |
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Keywords: Canada, civil and political rights, government, human rights, liberty, military/military services, national defence, security
