Who Killed the Canadian Military?
by J. L. Granatstein
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Jack Granatstein's Who Killed the Canadian Military? is more than a history of the decline and rust out of a military that as late as 1966 boasted 3,826 aircraft (including cutting-edge Sea King helicopters) as opposed to today's 328 aircraft-including those same Sea Kings and CF-18 fighters whose avionics are a generation out of date; the same can be said of the army and navy.Tags
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A survey that answers the question "Who Killed the Canadian Military?" with chapters on how this diminishment happened one Prime Minister at a time from Pearson on to Jean Chretien, and closes with a call for more funding, more public education , military leadership and a return to the concepts of the classical profession of arms, nation, duty, honour. Not a very surprising argument for an RMC graduate, but he remains a great historian of Canada and this book was aimed at starting a debate in Canadian society.
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Scholar and author Jack Lawrence Granatstein was born in Toronto in 1939. Considered an authority on 20th century Canadian national history (particularly foreign and defense policies), Canadian-American relations, the military, public service, and politics, Granatstein regularly comments on historical questions and public affairs in the media. He show more is a graduate of both Le College Militaire Royal de St. Jean (1959) and the Royal Military College in Kingston (1961). Granatstein also received a master's degree from the University of Toronto in 1962 and a Ph.D. from Duke University in 1966. He served in the Canadian Army from 1956 to 1966. Afterward, Granatstein joined the History Department at York University in Toronto, where he is now Distinguished Research Professor of History Granatstein's scholarly and popular books are many. They include The Politics of Survival: The Conservative Party of Canada 1939-45 (published in 1967), Peacekeeping: International Challenge and Canadian Response (1968), and Canada's War: The Politics of the Mackenzie King Government 1939-45 (1975). Among his more recent works are the Dictionary of Canadian Military History (1992), The Generals: The Canadian Army's Senior Commanders in the Second World War (1993, 1995), The Good Fight: Canadians and World War II (1995), and Who Killed Canadian History (1998). Granatstein was awarded the Tyrrell Medal for Canadian History in 1992 and the Medal for Biography from the University of British Columbia in 1993. He was granted honorary degrees from Memorial University and the University of Calgary. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Nonfiction, History, General Nonfiction, Politics and Government
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- 355.033571 — Society, government, & culture Public administration & military science The Military - Land, Air & Sea / Warfare National Security National Security Military Policy and Grand Strategy North America Canada
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- UA600 .G66 — Military Science Armies: Organization, distribution, military situation Armies: Organization, distribution, military situation By region or country
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