Review: Canada: Norad in the New Millennium
| Published date | 01 March 2001 |
| Date | 01 March 2001 |
| DOI | http://doi.org/10.1177/002070200105600112 |
| Subject Matter | Review |
Reviews
The
collection
also
includes
a
provocative
essay by
Serge
Grenier,
who
denounces
Canada's
policy
towards
Cuba
as
'immature,
mistaken
and
ultimately
irresponsible':
a
bracing
antidote
to smug
assumptions
about
the
positive
effect
of
Canada's policy
of
engagement.
NORAD
IN
THE
NEW
MILLENNIUM
D.F.
Holman
Toronto:
Irwin,
xii,
108pp, $19.95,
ISBN
0-7725-284-1
Holman
is
a
retired
major
general
who spent
his
career
in
the
Canadian
Air
Force,
part
of
it
at
NORAD
headquarters.
He
has
written
a
spare,
con-
cise
summary
of
Canada's
experience
in
NORAD,
how
the military
alliance
works,
and
how,
in
his
view,
Canada
benefits
from
the
arrangement.
NORAD
gives
Canada
access
to
'a
much
broader
and
more
strategi-
cally
relevant
warning
system
than
it
could
afford,
or
even
contem-
plate,
on
its own';
privileged
access
to
United
States
intelligence
and
military
technology,
interoperability
with
the
United
States,
and,
hard-
er
to measure,
some influence.
'Clearly,
Canada
and
the
United
States
have
a
special
relationship, rooted
in
their
common
geography
and
heritage,'
he
writes.
'NORAD
helps
to build
on
that
relationship
and
give
it
form
in
a
military context.'
Holman
also
provides
a
useful
summary
of
the
United
States
National
Missile
Defense
system
and
points
out
that
Canada
will
have
to
make
a
decision this
year.
He
notes that:
'The
government
appears
to
have
the
issue
on
its
agenda,
but
there
is
no
indication
that
it
is
ready
to
make
a
decision.'
No
such
indication
has
yet appeared
on
the horizon.
THE
NORTH
ATLANTIC TRIANGLE
REVISITED
Canadian grand
strategy
at
century's
end
David
G.
Haglund
Toronto: Irwin,
xvi,
114
pp,
$19.95
paper,
ISBN
0-7725-2823-3
One
of
the
many
pleasures
in
this
essay
is
Haglund's
mordant
sense
of
humour:
'For
reasons
not
immediately
apparent,
at
least
to
me,
a
feeling
has
grown
in
this
country
that
there
is
something
more
than
a
bit grub-
by
about
openly
acknowledging
that
Canada
has
self-interested aims
in
foreign
policy.'
He later
adds
that
Canada's
policy-makers insist on
avoiding
any
regional
definition
of
foreign
and
defence
policy.
'It
is
as
if
Canada's
grand
strategy
is
being
fashioned
on
the
shores
of
Garrison
INTERNATIONAL
JOURNAL
Winter2000-2001
171
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