Harmony and dissonance: A study of the influence of foreign policy goals on military decision-making with respect to the Canadian NATO brigade in Germany, 1951--1964.

摘要

The hypothesis of this thesis is that long term foreign policy goals influenced military decision-making with respect to the Canadian NATO brigade located in Germany. Other factors, such as domestic budgetary limitations, efficiency, morale, and inter-service rivalry, in military decision-making, also played a role in decision-making and are considered in the analysis presented here. Foreign policy goals, derived from national security, defined to comprise ideology, culture, social and economic history and the defence of western Europe, had a significant effect upon military decision-making. Areas of dissonance where foreign policy goals where less evident in decision-making are equally important in illustrating the limits of this hypothesis.