National Defence committee  In a way, it would. I appreciate your bringing it up. I'm sure Mark will have something to add, too. In my experience, if you don't take a seat at the table, you don't have a voice in the discussion, and there are some pretty important discussions going on within the internation

National Defence committee  Geography matters. Although it doesn't matter as much to the nuclear proliferation argument because it really doesn't matter where you're located because you are affected in some way, geography matters in NATO. It has a geographic name. We have to know that it can't be all-servin

National Defence committee  Yes.

National Defence committee  We need the numbers to tell us that part of the story, but it's only a small part. As human beings we have trouble approaching the stories about relationships, the narrative about our involvement in NATO, in a way that is meaningful for somebody else to understand. This is the pr

National Defence committee  Yes, and not just in leadership but at the different and multi-layered mechanisms that are NATO—but you got it.

National Defence committee  I want to suggest that Canada become more involved in the multinational experimentation process. We contributed a lot of effort and a lot of intellectual horsepower. Really, it was a Canadian Forces experimentation process, but Canada led it. I think it was called MNE 5, multinat

National Defence committee  Could you specify a particular place?

National Defence committee  Reconstruction has also transformed over the past 15 years. What we know about reconstruction and stabilization is that often there has been no suspension of hostilities, but we have the defence sector, the development sector, and the diplomatic sector, as well as the non-state s

National Defence committee  I can speak to some of the field realities better than I can to the headquarter realities. Picking up on a point that Mark made, NATO is there to provide the kinetic operational capability that the UN cannot muster efficiently or effectively, but from a field perspective, we've

National Defence committee  Thank you so much for your question. I'd like to address this first by talking about how we approach measuring phenomena, especially international interventions, and perhaps the work that Canada does. I wrote a book called Measuring What Matters in Peace Operations and Crisis M

National Defence committee  That's right. Just beware that there's no perfect measurement out there, no perfect metric, that will allow us to calculate Canada's ability to punch above its weight. We either need to lobby at different levels at headquarters to figure out what a better formula is, but that co

National Defence committee  No.

National Defence committee  I think there would be too much effort. There's always effort in education and effort in changing policy that already has a track record, so it's possible that we just want to change our approach to how we measure our 2%.

National Defence committee  Then we probably have to have a discussion about what benefit Canada's deriving from its involvement in some of the operations that we participate in. We need to sell it on both sides.

National Defence committee  Thank you for inviting me to testify to the committee. It's an honour to be with you today. My expertise is in post-war reconstruction, and I'm often called upon by the Canadian Forces to work with them on the identity and cultural dimensions of security, in essence how to manag