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Peter Kasurak is a Fellow of the Centre for International and Defence Policy at Queen’s University. He has taught military history at the Canadian Forces College and defence policy, foreign policy, terrorism and the profession of arms at the Royal Military College.   He has published two books on the Canadian Army, A National Force and Canada’s Mechanized Infantry as well as many articles on the Army, military culture, and civil-military relations in Canada.  He is currently working on a project on Canadian civil-military relations.   

Prior to retirement in 2007 Dr. Kasurak was Senior Principal at the Office of the Auditor General of Canada responsible for National Defence and National Security projects.  His reports to Parliament included the Reserves, peacekeeping operations, capital projects, and the $10 billion 2001 anti-terrorism initiative amongst others.

Research Interests

• Civil-Military Relations
• Land Force Doctrine and Operations 
• Defence IO=ndustry 

Recent Publications

• “Fighting Spirit and “Shared Responsibility”: Getting Civil-Military Relations Wrong” Canadian Military Journal, 25 No.1 (Winter, 2025).    

• “The Chiefs of Staff Committee and Air Defence, 1954-64:  How Not to Manage Defence Policy” Canadian Historical Review, 105 No. 4, 581-604.   

• Huntington in Canada:  The Triumph of Subjective Control, Armed Forces & Society, 48:2 (April, 2022) 323-342.  

• “Defence Leadership at the Top:  Control by the Civil Service?” book chapter in Total Defence Forces in the 21st Century, Joachim Berndtsson, Irina Goldenbery, Stephanie von Hlatky (eds.), (Montreal & Kingston:  McGill-Queen’s Press, 2023), 127-150. 

• “Domestic Military Deployments in Canada”, book chapter, ERGOMAS Research Committee 01 – Armed Forces and Society, Christian Leuprecht, Lindy Heinenken (eds.) 

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