Choice of Force

by Last, David; Horn, Bernd

• ISBN13: 9781553390442
• ISBN10: 155339044X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-08-11
• Publisher: Queens Univ School of Policy

Summary

Twenty years from now, security issues may dictate that counter-terrorism is more important than operations to secure stability and rule of law. Security at the border, ethnic demography, and the perspective of the next generation will determine what strategic choices Canada will make about special military operations and the elite forces developed to carry out special missions. In Choice of Force military and academic researchers survey what political and bureaucratic leaders expect of special operations and analyse contemporary operations, new challenges, and the factors that will shape special operations in the coming decades.

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
PART I THE FUTURE SECURITY ENVIRONMENT
Chapter 1 Future Security Environments: Implications for Canadian Special Operations
Michael A. Hennessy, Bernd Horn, and David Last	3	(16)
Chapter 2 Loose Cannons in Cyberspace: Society and Psychological Change
Nicole Schwartz-Morgan	19	(16)
Chapter 3 Guarding the Canada-United States Border: The Need to Challenge Tradition
T.S. Hataley	35	(14)
Chapter 4 The Ethnic Demography Advantage: Canada's Force Multiplier
Christian Leuprecht	49	(20)
Chapter 5 Canada and International Private Security Companies: Issues and Challenges for Special Operations Capabilities
Christopher Spearin	69	(16)
PART II THE CANADIAN POLICY ENVIRONMENT
Chapter 6 International Law and Special Operations
Susan Breau	85	(20)
Chapter 7 Political Leadership for Special Operations
Stephanie Mullen	105	(14)
Chapter 8 Elite Opinion about Special Operations
David Last and Hugh Thorburn	119	(16)
Chapter 9 National Security Decision-Making
David Last and Glen Milne	135	(22)
PART III CONTEMPORARY SPECIAL OPERATIONS
Chapter 10 Special Operations Forces in Kosovo and Afghanistan
Sean M. Maloney	157	(16)
Chapter 11 Information Operations in Support of Special Operations
Sylvain P. Leblanc and G. Scott Knight	173	(14)
Chapter 12 Special Operations and Post-Conflict Stability: Civil Affairs and Direct Action
David Last and Michelle Malenfant	187	(18)
Chapter 13 Orbital Asset or Overhead Menace? Space Power and Special Operations
Andrew B. Godefroy	205	(14)
Chapter 14 Special Operations Forces and Technology: Tradition, Innovation, and Implications for Canada
Jason S. Ridler	219	(18)
PART IV DOCTRINES FOR SPECIAL OPERATIONS
Chapter 15 Selection and Preparation of Team Members for Special Operations
Tom Dececchi and Bernadette Dececchi	237	(16)
Chapter 16 NATO Doctrine and Canadian Special Operations
Benjamin Zyla	253	(14)
Chapter 17 US Special Operations Forces, Transformation, and Implications for Canadian Doctrine
James D. Kiras	267	(20)
Chapter 18 Choice of Force: Special Operations for Canada?
David Last, Tim Lannan, and Jamie Green	287	(16)
Glossary	303	(6)
Contributors	309