On Track, Winter 2008

Contents of latest issue from the Conference of Defence Associations Institute:

From the Executive Director..........................................4
Colonel (Ret’d) Alain Pellerin
Le mot du Directeur général..........................................4
Colonel (Ret) Alain Pellerin
Canada’s Air Force: On Course, On Glide Path...........10
Lieutenant-General Angus Watt
Renewing for Success Today and Tomorrow...............14
Vice-Admiral Drew Robertson
Putting Procurement Back On Track............................17
Commander (Ret’d) Ken Bowering and
Jerrod Riley
The Strategic Importance of Afghanistan.....................22
U.S. Major Scott Taylor, Jr.
Broken Command in Afghanistan.................................24
Colonel Ian Hope
The Afghan War: The Pakistani Dimensions................31
Louis Delvoie
Afghanistan - A Personal Perspective..........................34
Major-General Dennis Tabbernor
U.S. Joint Warfighting Developments...........................38
Major Bob Near
Transition in American Effects Based Doctrine............40
- Should Canada Be Concerned?
Bonnie Butlin
The Centre for Military and Strategic Studies..............44
Nancy Pearson Mackie and Andrew Sullivan
11th Annual CDA Institute
Graduate Student Symposium.....................................46
Bonnie Butlin
Book Reviews
“The Post-American World”.........................................47
Arnav Manchanda
“The Way of the World:................................................49
- A story of Truth and Hope in an Age of Extremism”
Anne Frances Cation