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Chiefs of Defence: Douglas Bland |
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Description: This study covers the first 30 years of the office of the Chief of the Defence Staff, 1964-1994. If anything characterizes the history of the office of the CDS, it is conceptual confusion. It is a story of the confusion surrounding the purpose of the institution and the conflicts, misunderstandings, and rivalries, both personal and organizational, which arose from it. Civil-military relations confront society with many questions, but the first question is whose policies prevail? In Canada no one argues that during the last thirty years Parliament's policies have always prevailed over those of allies and special interests in the defence establishment. That fact and its causes and cures ought to concern Canadians. "Chiefs of Defence... is frank, fiercely argumentative, and contentious in the extreme ... No reader of this book will agree with every word of it. But every reader will repeatedly nod... and admit, sometimes very grudgingly, that by God, Douglas Bland has hit it right between the eyes yet again." Dr. Douglas Bland is a graduate of the Canadian Army Staff College, Kingston, the NATO Defence College, Rome, and holds a Doctorate in Political Studies from Queen's University in Kingston. He is a senior associate at the Centre for International Relations at Queen's University and a NATO fellow.
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