Canada's Mechanized Infantry: The Evolution of a Combat Arm, 1920–2012 (Studies in Canadian Military History)
Language: English
Published by University of British Columbia Press, 2020
Series: Book 51 of 59 - Studies in Canadian Military History
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- Title
- Canada's Mechanized Infantry: The Evolution of a Combat Arm, 1920–2012 (Studies in Canadian Military History)
- Author
- Kasurak, Peter
- Publisher
- University of British Columbia Press
- Publication year
- 2020
- Condition
- New
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0774862734
- ISBN 13
- 9780774862738
- Item weight
- 522 grams
- Series
- Book 51 of 59: Studies in Canadian Military History
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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About the Author
Peter Kasurak is a fellow of the Centre for International and Defence Policy at Queen’s University. He is the former senior principal at the Office of the Auditor General of Canada responsible for National Defence and National Security projects, and a former instructor at both the Canadian Forces College and the Royal Military College. In addition to writing numerous articles on the army, military culture, and civil-military relations in Canada, he is the author of A National Force: The Evolution of Canada’s Army, 1950–2000 and Canada’s Mechanized Infantry: The Evolution of a Combat Arm, 1920–2012.
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