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The Origins and Influence of Canada’s Military-Industrial Complex

Edited by Alex Souchen and Matthew S. Wiseman

Published by: UBC Press

Series: Studies in Canadian Military History

Imprint: UBC Press

7 b&w photos, 2 maps

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9780774868983
Published: September 2023

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9780774868976
Published: September 2023

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This book will appeal to military and Canadian historians, defence analysts, and political scientists interested in Canadian military affairs and defence procurement.

Introduction: A Canadian Military-Industrial Complex? / Alex Souchen and Matthew S. Wiseman

Part 1: Origins and Environments

1 Victory at All Costs: Canada’s Munitions Industry and the Environment during the Second World War / Alex Souchen

2 Military Dispossession: Alberta’s Suffield Experimental Station, 1939–47 / Brandon Davis

Part 2: Ethics and Experts

3 The Human Sciences at Downsview: Military Research in Cold War Toronto / Matthew S. Wiseman and Matthew Farish

4 In Pursuit of Security: Canada’s Defence Research Board and Sensory Deprivation Research, 1950s–1970s / Meghan Fitzpatrick

Part 3: Politics and Procurement

5 The Honest (Arms) Broker: Promoting the Military-Industrial Complex during the Golden Age of Canadian Foreign Policy / Asa McKercher

6 “This Seems Pie in the Sky and Most Unlikely”: The Origins of General Dynamics Land Systems–Canada / Frank Maas

7 The Royal Canadian Air Force and the Military-Industrial Complex: A Figment of the Imagination / Randall Wakelam

Conclusion: “Insurance for Peace” / Matthew S. Wiseman

Index

Alex Souchen is an assistant professor at the University of Guelph, cross-appointed between the Department of History and the Bachelor of Arts and Science Program. He is the author of War Junk: Munitions Disposal and Postwar Reconstruction in Canada, which won an honorable mention for the 2020–21 C.P. Stacey Award for the best book in the field of Canadian military history.

Matthew S. Wiseman is a lecturer in the Department of History at the University of Waterloo. He previously held a Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship at St. Jerome’s University and is the editor of The Selected Works of George R. Lindsey: Operational Research, Strategic Studies, and Canadian Defence in the Cold War.