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Why We Fight: New Approaches to the Human Dimension of Warfare

Why We Fight: New Approaches to the Human Dimension of Warfare

Breede, H. Christian
Engen, Robert
English, Allan

Hardcover

Series: Human Dimensions in Foreign Policy, Military Studies, and Security Studies, Book 12

Canadian HistoryGeneral Military History

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ISBN10: 0228003865
ISBN13: 9780228003861
Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
Published: Dec 17 2020
Pages: 240
Language: English

For decades, the Canadian Armed Forces has used the work of foreign scholars and writers in its professional military education to try to understand the human dimension of warfare: why and how people are motivated to fight, and how they behave once they do fight. Yet the specific Canadian context, experience, and perspective are often lost in favour of appeals to universal truths.

The first major Canadian study of combat motivation in almost forty years, Why We Fight redresses this imbalance by presenting some of the best new work on the subject. Bringing together top military practitioners and scholars to discuss some of the most controversial issues of modern warfare, Why We Fight examines the face of battle as experienced by Canadians. It explores sexual violence in war, professionalism, organizations, leadership, shared intent, motivation in extremis, and the toxicity of the warrior culture. Its chapters offer key insights on combat motivation theories, the modern operating environment, and the collective and individual identities of the men and women who fight for Canada.

Many worry that technology is leading us towards a post-human age, particularly in war. Why We Fight affirms the centrality of the human being in warfare in Canada's past, present, and future.

Contributors include Claire Cookson-Hills (Queen's), Karen Davis (DRDC), Sonia Dussault (Queen's), Ian Hope (CAF, NATO Defence College), Robert Martyn (CAF, ret.), the late Roger Spiller (US Army Command and General Staff College), Victoria Tait (Carleton), and Robert Williams (CAF, ret.).

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