devil39
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The Autumn 2004 issue of Parameters has this timely article by Joseph R Nunez. This is reasonably accurate summary of where we currently stand and how we got here as a nation and a military in my opinion. While there are details to nitpick in this paper, it is a very worthwhile read.
http://carlisle-www.army.mil/usawc/Parameters/04autumn/nunez.pdf
In the conclusion there is a timely comment that should be appreciated by our resident "hot house flower" expert, PPCLI Guy that directly relates to his analogy of a couple of days ago on the subject of "soft power".
"While soft power may be an effective foreign policy approach in this millennium,
it is largely ineffective without significant hard power to back it up. And
the truth is that today Canada has little hard power. A country that cannot muster
and deploy even one self-sufficient brigade to global hot spots is not going
to be taken very seriously, and is certainly not a middle power by military measure."
http://carlisle-www.army.mil/usawc/Parameters/04autumn/nunez.pdf
In the conclusion there is a timely comment that should be appreciated by our resident "hot house flower" expert, PPCLI Guy that directly relates to his analogy of a couple of days ago on the subject of "soft power".
"While soft power may be an effective foreign policy approach in this millennium,
it is largely ineffective without significant hard power to back it up. And
the truth is that today Canada has little hard power. A country that cannot muster
and deploy even one self-sufficient brigade to global hot spots is not going
to be taken very seriously, and is certainly not a middle power by military measure."