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In Peace Prepared Innovation and Adaptation in Canada’s Cold War Army

Godefroy, Andrew B.
Innbundet / 2014 / Engelsk

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780774827027
Publisert
2014
Utgiver
Vendor
University of British Columbia Press
Vekt
560 gr
Høyde
229 mm
Bredde
152 mm
Aldersnivå
UP, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
292

Forfatter
Godefroy, Andrew B.

Biographical note

Andrew B. Godefroy is a strategic analyst and historian with the Canadian Army, editor-in-chief of the Canadian Army Journal, and the author of Defence and Discovery: Canada’s Military Space Program, 1945-74 (UBC Press, 2011).

In Peace Prepared Innovation and Adaptation in Canada’s Cold War Army

Godefroy, Andrew B.
Innbundet / 2014 / Engelsk
Godefroy, Andrew B.
Innbundet / 2014 / Engelsk
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The Allies claimed victory at the end of the Second World War, but the United States’ invention of the atomic bomb and its replication by the Soviet Union posed new dangers for all nations. In Peace Prepared examines what Canada’s Cold War Army did to prepare for war – and why and how it did it.Although a Third World War never happened, army officers supported by a large civilian defence workforce of scientists, engineers, and designers responded aggressively to the challenges presented by the possibility of nuclear attack. Through innovation and adaptation, they developed a collaborative and systematic approach to problem solving that not only played a significant role in the evolution of Canada’s national force but also shaped how armies in the Western Alliance related to one another during the Cold War and beyond.
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This book explores how the Canadian Army prepared for the possibility of a Third World War and how its innovations and adaptations laid the groundwork for the evolution of our national army.
PrefaceIntroduction1 Soldiers as Innovators: The Evolution of Army Combat Development2 Shadow over Victory: From Occupation to Cold War Army, 1945-503 Going East and West: Combat Development in the Hot and Cold Wars, 1950-544 Ensuring Destruction: Designing the Tactical Nuclear Army, 1954-585 Atomic War Games: Combat Development through Simulation, 1958-646 Towards a Flexible Response: Creating a Post-Atomic Mobile Command, 1963-68ConclusionAppendicesNotesBibliographyIndex
Les mer
… this is a book that matters, and it should be read widely.
This is a splendidly interesting book from which I have learned a great deal. I cannot think of its exact equivalent in any of the historical literatures that deal with the Commonwealth armies, the absence of which is our loss. It should be on the professional reading lists of staff colleges and senior headquarters throughout the Anglosphere armies, and it is essential reading for students both of Canadian defence and of the intellectual and organizational development of armed forces more generally.
Les mer
A definitive account of how Canada’s peacetime army prepared for nuclear war.

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The Allies claimed victory at the end of the Second World War, but the United States’ invention of the atomic bomb and its replication by the Soviet Union posed new dangers for all nations. In Peace Prepared examines what Canada’s Cold War Army did to prepare for war – and why and how it did it.Although a Third World War never happened, army officers supported by a large civilian defence workforce of scientists, engineers, and designers responded aggressively to the challenges presented by the possibility of nuclear attack. Through innovation and adaptation, they developed a collaborative and systematic approach to problem solving that not only played a significant role in the evolution of Canada’s national force but also shaped how armies in the Western Alliance related to one another during the Cold War and beyond.
Les mer
This book explores how the Canadian Army prepared for the possibility of a Third World War and how its innovations and adaptations laid the groundwork for the evolution of our national army.
PrefaceIntroduction1 Soldiers as Innovators: The Evolution of Army Combat Development2 Shadow over Victory: From Occupation to Cold War Army, 1945-503 Going East and West: Combat Development in the Hot and Cold Wars, 1950-544 Ensuring Destruction: Designing the Tactical Nuclear Army, 1954-585 Atomic War Games: Combat Development through Simulation, 1958-646 Towards a Flexible Response: Creating a Post-Atomic Mobile Command, 1963-68ConclusionAppendicesNotesBibliographyIndex
Les mer
… this is a book that matters, and it should be read widely.
This is a splendidly interesting book from which I have learned a great deal. I cannot think of its exact equivalent in any of the historical literatures that deal with the Commonwealth armies, the absence of which is our loss. It should be on the professional reading lists of staff colleges and senior headquarters throughout the Anglosphere armies, and it is essential reading for students both of Canadian defence and of the intellectual and organizational development of armed forces more generally.
Les mer
A definitive account of how Canada’s peacetime army prepared for nuclear war.

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780774827027
Publisert
2014
Utgiver
Vendor
University of British Columbia Press
Vekt
560 gr
Høyde
229 mm
Bredde
152 mm
Aldersnivå
UP, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
292

Forfatter
Godefroy, Andrew B.

Biographical note

Andrew B. Godefroy is a strategic analyst and historian with the Canadian Army, editor-in-chief of the Canadian Army Journal, and the author of Defence and Discovery: Canada’s Military Space Program, 1945-74 (UBC Press, 2011).

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