Canadian Defence Policy in Theory and Practice

1. Introduction.- 2. The Imperatives of Canada's Strategic Geography.- 3. Canadian Strategic Cultures: From Confederation to Trump.- 4. Holding Canadian Governments to Account for National Defence.- 5. Canadian Defence Budgeting.- 6. From Policy and Strategy to Outcomes.- 7. Canada and Defence against Help: The Wrong Theory for the Wrong Country at the Wrong Time.- 8. Canadian Civil-Military Relations in Comparative Perspective: It Could Be Worse?.- 9. The Political Economy of Defence.- 10. Public Opinion and Canadian Defence Policy.- 11. The Demographics of Force Generation: Recruitment, Attrition, and Retention of Citizen Soldiers.- 12. Culture Clash: Why the media and the military can't get along.- 13. Indigenous Peoples and Canadian Defence.- 14. Defence Policy Perspectives:  Special Interests and Lobbying.- 15. Achieving Consensus and Effectiveness in Canadian Defence Policy.- 16. You've Gotit All Backwards: Canada's National Defence Strategy.- 17. Law and political-military strategy: the importance of legal advice in the decision to deploy the Canadian Armed Forces.- 18. CAF Operations: A Comprehensive Approach to Enable Future Operations.- 19. Capability Acquisition and Canadian Defence Policy: Program Achievability and Resilience?.- 20. Women in the Canadian Armed Forces.- 21. Defence Policy in the Canadian Arctic: From Jean Chrétien to Justin Trudeau.- 22. Canadian defence and new technologies.- 23. Deterrence in Space and Cyberspace.

Thomas Juneau is Associate Professor in the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, University of Ottawa, Canada.
Philippe Lagassé is Associate Professor and Barton Chair in the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs, Carleton University, Canada.
Srdjan Vucetic is Associate Professor in the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, University of Ottawa, Canada.