For centuries the pursuit of competing political objectives has led to military conflict. Prussian military theorist Major-General Carl von Clausewitz wrote, “War is thus an act of force to compel our enemy to do our will.” History has shown that the ability to affect an adversa…
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The relationship between anger and selected variables among combat veterans from Afghanistan and Iraq were examined. The variables included posttraumatic stress disorder, combat experience, social support, and alcohol use. The participants were drawn from an email registry kept …
The number of United Nations interventions in civil conflicts has increased since the end of the Cold War. Traditional peace-keeping has proved ill-suited to deal with them; second-generation, multi-task peace-keeping operations have emerged as a substitute. These new operations…
Although high morale, unit cohesion, and confidence in leadership are considered by military leaders to be essential elements for victory on the battlefield, research indicates that officer assessments of these variables are generally inaccurate. To assist commanding officers in…
This study focused on Parliamentary oversight of international peacekeeping operations where Canadian Forces (CF) were represented in the 1990s. An examination of the activities of parliament in relation to defence matters from Confederation to the effective end of the Cold War …