Military Preparedness in a New Security Environment: The Canadian Army Reserve's
Contribution to Public Safety and Domestic Security addresses the Reserve's response to
Canada's domestic security needs in the current security environment. The security environment
is evolving, which has led to increasing constraints and the search for evolving security solutions
for Western national governments, including a greater use of the Reserve. However, certain
tensions inhibit the twin-track contributions of the Reserve to both domestic and international
operations, arising from issues such as role definition, buy-in, and resource commitment. The
"Canadian solution" o f having the Reserve "muddle through" these issues and follow both roles
will inevitably need to change if the Reserve is to effectively serve Canadians in the future, be
that internationally or domestically.
The methods employed include the analysis of existing literature addressing the evolving
security environment, concepts of civil-military relations, and recent Canadian national security
policies, combined with a presentation of the Army Reserve, and a comparative study with key
Commonwealth counterparts. Thus, at a conceptual level, at the Canadian level, and at the level
of Canada's international partners, it became apparent that there are tensions between a domestic
and international role for the Reserve which could create problems for the Reserve's future. In
practice, the methodology consisted of the analysis of academic and government primary and
secondary sources as well as drawing upon the author's interviews with individuals of relevant
expertise or experience. / Arts, Faculty of / Political Science, Department of / Graduate
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UBC/oai:circle.library.ubc.ca:2429/16787 |
| Date | 11 1900 |
| Creators | Ward, Russell V. J. |
| Source Sets | University of British Columbia |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text, Thesis/Dissertation |
| Rights | For non-commercial purposes only, such as research, private study and education. Additional conditions apply, see Terms of Use https://open.library.ubc.ca/terms_of_use. |
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