Forced to Change: Crisis and Reform in the Canadian Armed Forces

Forced to Change: Crisis and Reform in the Canadian Armed Forces

Forced to Change: Crisis and Reform in the Canadian Armed Forces

Forced to Change: Crisis and Reform in the Canadian Armed Forces

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Overview

Undeniably, the 1990s were a period of crisis for the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF). Drastic budget reductions and a series of endless scandals all collided to form the perfect storm. The outcome of this was nothing short of the implosion of the Canadian Armed Forces Officer Corps.

Stripped by the government of the right to regulate itself, the Officer Corps, which represented the nation’s stewards of the profession of arms, was forced to reform itself. Key to this transformation was education. However, the road was not easy, as cultural change rarely is.

Forced to Change tells the story of how the Canadian Armed Forces found itself at its lowest point in history and how it managed to reform itself. The question is whether it was a fundamental transformation or just a temporary adjustment to weather the storm.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781459727861
Publisher: Dundurn Press
Publication date: 03/28/2015
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 168
File size: 605 KB

About the Author

Colonel Bernd Horn is an experienced Canadian Forces infantry officer and military educator. He has authored or edited more than 35 books, including No Easy Task: Fighting in Afghanistan and No Lack of Courage: Operation Medusa, Afghanistan. He lives in Kingston, Ontario.

Dr. Bill Bentley has served in the Department of National Defence for 46 years. He received the DM/CDS Innovation Award for writing Duty With Honour: The Profession of Arms in Canada, and the Meritorious Service Medal for his contribution to the reform of the CF Professional Development System. He lives in Gananoque, Ontario.

Colonel Bernd Horn is a retired Regular Force infantry officer and military educator. Dr. Horn has authored, co-authored, and edited more than forty books, including A Most Ungentlemanly Way of War: The SOE and the Canadian Connection and No Ordinary Men: Special Operations Forces Missions in Afghanistan. He lives in Kingston, Ontario.


Dr. Bill Bentley has served in the Department of National Defence for 46 years. He received the DM/CDS Innovation Award for writing Duty With Honour: The Profession of Arms in Canada, and the Meritorious Service Medal for his contribution to the reform of the CF Professional Development System. He lives in Gananoque, Ontario.

Table of Contents

Foreword 7

Acknowledgments 9

Introduction 11

Chapter 1 A Crisis in Culture 18

Chapter 2 The Government Intervenes 43

Chapter 3 Much Ado About Nothing: An Institutional Resistance to Change 62

Chapter 4 Education: The Missing Link 87

Chapter 5 Forced to Change: Reform Takes Root 97

Chapter 6 Lasting Change or a Flash in the Pan? 116

Glossary of Abbreviations 134

Notes 137

Selected Bibliography 157

Index 161

About the Authors 166

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