Canadians setting course with PNM
Dateline: Holiday Inn Express, Charlotte NC, 5 Oct 2005
Got up this a.m. in West Virginny and made my way to DC. Travel a bear, so I miss my flight to Charlotte NC. End up having to arrange new flight on way to Reagan National. During time at Reagan, walked into Brooks Brothers and bought a bunch of new shirts for the BFA tour, plus two new ties.
While en route to airport, gave interview over phone to Adam Day, staff writer of Canadian defense journal "Legion Magazine." He told me defense chief of staff in Canada, whom I met last winter at defence conference in Ottawa, had put out new Canadian defense strategy doc in which my Non-Integrating Gap was utilized as a concept. Go here for the complete doc in pdf [7.69MB]:
http://www.cds.forces.gc.ca/00native/pdf/cds-vision_e.pdf.
Below find the first slide and the slide in question:
Obviously, pretty cool to see PNM's main concept so directly picked up as strategic vision by a foreign military as SysAdmin-like in their mindset as the Canadians. Do I care about credit? Sure, that's why I'm blogging it!
But seriously, I'm just happy to see it being used like this. Now, it's not just insider Defense Department reports that use it, but our good friends to the north.
Once I land in Charlotte, I give two talks (afternoon and evening) at Belmont Abbey Catholic college here. Both talks went fine, but I am beat. Fly out at 0700 in the morning.
I've had my Miller from the local gas 'n sip. Lights out.
Email from Adam Day, after the interview.
Below is a link to the Canadian Chief of Defence Staff's 'Vision' statement. Page 17 features a map of the 'Non integrating gap.'I'll send you a link to my article when it comes out Nov. 1.
Also, here is a link explaining in further detail the 'responsibility to protect' doctrine, which sounds like a possible mechanism for consensus building on failed states that you described in our interview.
http://www.iciss.ca/report-en.asp
Thanks again for the interview,
Adam Day
Staff Writer
Legion Magazine
www.legionmagazine.com
posted for Thomas P.M. Barnett