Canadian Maritime Hubris: The Absence of a Future Maritime Security Strategy (FMSS)

摘要

The government must have an overall plan. This plan must cover not just the security measures and military operations. It must include all political, social, economic, administration, police and other measures which have a bearing.rnTwenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, Canada faces a much-changed strategic environment. The conventional military and nuclear threats of the Soviet Bloc have receded only to be replaced by the disparate and asymmetric. These have beenrnfashioned by the end of the bi-polar Cold War, global financial crises and the concurrent rise of non-state terrorism and organized crime. Canada's response to this security dilemma has been to focus upon coalition based land-centered operations, the maintenance of a blue water approach to naval matters, the establishment of cross government working groups and a conservative application of international law.