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Georgetown Studies in Intelligence History
Canadian Military Intelligence: Operations and Evolution from the October Crisis to the War in Afghanistan
The most comprehensive history of Canadian military intelligence and its influence on key military operations
Canadian intelligence has become increasingly central to the operations of the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF). Canadian Military Operations and Evolution from the October Crisis to the War in Afghanistan is the first comprehensive history that examines the impact of tactical, operational, and strategic intelligence on the Canadian military.
Drawing upon a wide range of original documents and interviews with participants in specific operations, author David A. Charters provides an inside perspective on the development of military intelligence since the Second World War. He shows how intelligence influenced key military operations, from domestic internal security to peacekeeping efforts to high-intensity air campaigns ― including the October Crisis of 1970, the Oka Crisis, the Gulf War, peacekeeping and enforcement operations in the Balkans, and the war in Afghanistan. He describes how decades of experience, innovation, and increasingly close cooperation with its Five Eyes and NATO allies allowed Canada's military intelligence to punch above its weight. Its tactical effectiveness and ability to overcome challenges reshaped the outlook of military commanders, and intelligence emerged from the margins to become a central feature of military and defense operations.
Canadian Military Intelligence offers lessons from the past and critical implications for future intelligence support with the creation of the Canadian Forces Intelligence Command. This book will be essential to both intelligence history and military history readers and collections.
Canadian intelligence has become increasingly central to the operations of the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF). Canadian Military Operations and Evolution from the October Crisis to the War in Afghanistan is the first comprehensive history that examines the impact of tactical, operational, and strategic intelligence on the Canadian military.
Drawing upon a wide range of original documents and interviews with participants in specific operations, author David A. Charters provides an inside perspective on the development of military intelligence since the Second World War. He shows how intelligence influenced key military operations, from domestic internal security to peacekeeping efforts to high-intensity air campaigns ― including the October Crisis of 1970, the Oka Crisis, the Gulf War, peacekeeping and enforcement operations in the Balkans, and the war in Afghanistan. He describes how decades of experience, innovation, and increasingly close cooperation with its Five Eyes and NATO allies allowed Canada's military intelligence to punch above its weight. Its tactical effectiveness and ability to overcome challenges reshaped the outlook of military commanders, and intelligence emerged from the margins to become a central feature of military and defense operations.
Canadian Military Intelligence offers lessons from the past and critical implications for future intelligence support with the creation of the Canadian Forces Intelligence Command. This book will be essential to both intelligence history and military history readers and collections.
368 pages, Paperback
Published October 3, 2022
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January 13, 2025
A Good History of Canadian MI
This book is aimed at the Intelligence professional, and gives a good overview of the development of the Canadian Armed Forces Intelligence. Having served during those years myself, I can vouch that its factual content is good. It is necessarily a top layer account, speaking to the broad trends.
The perennial problem of instability of budgets and studies which are largely (though not always) coping mechanisms for budget cuts is addressed without becoming a rant.
I can reasonably claim to be one of the knowledge individuals in the conclusion, and the Branch is certainly a learning organization, driven to be so, as the author rightly concludes, by both necessity and the nature of Intelligence.
This book is aimed at the Intelligence professional, and gives a good overview of the development of the Canadian Armed Forces Intelligence. Having served during those years myself, I can vouch that its factual content is good. It is necessarily a top layer account, speaking to the broad trends.
The perennial problem of instability of budgets and studies which are largely (though not always) coping mechanisms for budget cuts is addressed without becoming a rant.
I can reasonably claim to be one of the knowledge individuals in the conclusion, and the Branch is certainly a learning organization, driven to be so, as the author rightly concludes, by both necessity and the nature of Intelligence.
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