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The Profession of Arms in Postwar Canada, 1945–1970: Political Authority as a Military Problem

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 July 2011

Adrian Preston
Adrian Preston
Affiliation:
the Royal Military College of Canada
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Military professionalism is a large and complicated subject that has been hitherto unconsidered by defense specialists and political scientists in Canada and about which the statistics necessary for proximate sociological conclusions are not readily available. Since 1945, discussion of defense problems in Canada has centered largely upon the effect of developments in military technology and international politics on Canada's military policies and organization, and not upon the nature and form of the professionalism that sustains and subordinates itself to them. The aim of this paper is primarily to discuss the place and role of the military profession in Canadian political society between 1945 and 1970 and to show how it might be affected by present trends in Canadian defense policy.

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Research Article
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World Politics , Volume 23 , Issue 2 , January 1971 , pp. 189 - 214
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Copyright © Trustees of Princeton University 1971

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