Canada's Mechanized Infantry: The Evolution of a Combat Arm 1920-2012 (Studies in Canadian Military History) - Softcover

Kasurak, Peter

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0774862734 ISBN 13: 9780774862738

Verlag: University of British Columbia Press, 2020

Inhaltsangabe

Although many modern studies of technology and war focus on tanks and armour, soldiers from the Second World War onward have discovered that success depends on a combination of infantry, armour, and artillery to form combat teams.
Canada’s Mechanized Infantry explores the largely ignored development of the infantry in the Canadian Army after the First World War and exposes the intellectual and cultural barriers it faced as it introduced armoured vehicles and vehicle-mounted weapons. Peter Kasurak demonstrates how Canadian forces, building on British Army experiments from the 1920s, implemented successful infantry vehicles and doctrine to ultimately further their military goals during the Second World War. These advancements were abandoned in the postwar period, however, even as the army quickly developed mechanized infantry  in response to the possibility of a nuclear war in Europe. Progress was slowed by a top-down culture and an unwillingness to abandon conventional thinking on the primacy of foot infantry and regimental organization. Post-Afghanistan, the army has yet to resolve these central issues.
This insightful book is the first to examine the challenges that have confronted the Canadian Army in transforming its infantry from First World War foot soldiers into a twenty-first-century combat force integrating soldiers, vehicles, weapons, and electronics.

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Peter Kasurak is a retired public servant who led the defence and national security sections of the Office of the Auditor General of Canada until 2007. He is also the author of A National Force: The Evolution of Canada’s Army, 1950–2000 and of many articles on Canadian-American relations, the Canadian Army, counter-terrorism, Parliamentary oversight of defence, and police governance. He is currently a part-time instructor in history and political studies at the Royal Military College of Canada in Kingston, Ontario.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: University of British Columbia Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2020
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0774862734
• ISBN 13: 9780774862738
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 251
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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