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Inside This Issue from All Comers—Our Friends Included May—June 2012 Volume 72, Number 3 SITREPT HE J OURNAL OF T HE R OYAL C ANADIAN M ILI TARY I NS T I T U T E Melbourne F Mackley archive/ ancestry.com —MELBOURNE F MACKLEY ARCHIVE/ANCESTRY.COM Defending Arctic sovereignty Inside this Issue from all comers—our friends included. The opening of the Can NATO Continue to be the Most Successful Alaska Highway on November Military Alliance in History? Yes it can! .................................................................................3 21, 1942, and a National Film Northern Sovereignty In World War II ...................................................................................5 Board photo—approved for The State of the World: A Framework ..................................................................................10 publication by US military Spent Nuclear Fuel:A National Security and authorities! Environmental Migraine Headache .......................................................................................12 Book Review: Dan Bjarnason, “Triumph at Kapyong: Canada’s Pivotal Battle in Korea” ..14 Turco-Syrian Border could become a flashpoint for NATO .................................................16 From the Editor’s Desk Can NATO Continue to be the Most Successful Military Alliance in History? Yes it can! he impact of the latest federal budget is beginning to be felt throughout the government and across the nation. by Sarwar Kashmeri The exact nature of reductions in the size and capabilities Royal Canadian Military Institute Tacross all departments and agencies has yet to be determined. Founded 1890 nce the world’s most formidable military alliance, assigned to ISAF have suffered numerous casualties because Clearly from a defence and security perspective short-term cuts Patron today’s NATO is a shadow of what it used to be. Its other contingents could not support them. This casualty count to address the deficit need to be examined in the long term. When the spectre of His Excellency the Right Honourable David Johnston, C.C., C.M.M., C.O.M., C.D. original reason for existence, the Soviet Union, disin- includes at least a dozen Canadian soldiers that may have the potential loss of a capability appears, as it did so frequently during the ‘budget The Governor General of Canada Otegrated years ago, and its dreams of being a world policeman been killed for lack of support from other NATO contingents deficit war’ of the nineties, it is important to appreciate that once a capability is Vice Patrons have withered in the mountains of Afghanistan. during the 2006 Operation Medusa. lost it takes a very long time to resurrect. Examples abound…the savings by P.M. The Honourable David C. Onley, O.Ont From an alliance with a clearly defined objective, NATO In spite of its hollowed out condition, the fact however Chrétien’s cancellation of the maritime helicopter program have been exceeded by Lieutenant Governor of Ontario has morphed into an amorphous, hard to describe alliance remains that NATO is still associated in the minds of many the financial cost of the present program and more importantly the diminishment The Honourable Dalton McGuinty, MPP The Premier of Ontario of Western countries that believe NATO can be a world cop, North Americans and Europeans as their defender of last in capability and risk to our maritime pilots. The Royal New Zealand Air Force no General Walter J. Natynczyk, CMM, MSC, CD Chief of the Defence Staff emancipate women, reduce carbon emissions, rebuild nations, resort. It is also one of the girders that support the hugely longer exists! In a strange reversal of fortune we retained the tank capability in the His Worship Rob Ford defend European borders, prevent money laundering and successful transatlantic relationship and is the only security seventies because of an imbalance of trade with West Germany—Helmet Schmidt Mayor of Toronto pressured P.M. Trudeau to resolve this by buying German Leopard tanks. We did Officers & Directors piracy, serve as a defense research and technology lab, and platform that brings together the armed forces of the trans- and we retained a capability that otherwise was about to be cut. Hopefully the pres- Col Gilbert W. Taylor—President preserve Western values. atlantic allies. LCdr/Dr. Michael J. Hoare, CD—Vice President NATO’s actions in Libya demonstrated its lack of cohe- Can anything be done to stop the Alliance’s slide into ent cohort of military officers will not have to suffer as my generation did from this Col W. Allan Methven—Vice President lack of long-term consideration. But, “Hope is not a method.” Mr. Gilbert S. Lamothe—Secretary/Treasurer sion and structural weaknesses in a conflict with a minor irrelevance? LCol Donald R. Fisher, CD—Director military power. “The mightiest military alliance in history is After recent conversations with fifty political and mili- Sarwar Kashmeri provides a compelling argument that the world’s most suc- Ms Patricia M. Hind-White—Director cessful alliance has evolved and continues to be relevant on the world stage. Dr. Michael W. Leahy—Director only 11 weeks into an operation against a poorly armed regime tary leaders, I believe NATO’s future relevance depends on its Maj David T. Mezzabotta, CD—Director in a sparsely populated country —yet many allies are begin- willingness to be bridged to the European Union’s Common Peter Pigott presents a little known perspective on how the Second World War LCol Leo P. Morin, CD—Director changed our North—specifically the US presence. Interesting given the present evolu- LCol C. Edward Rayment, CD—Director ning to run short of munitions, requiring the U.S., once more, Security and Defense Policy—CSDP. LCol Reginald C. Scotland, CD—Director tion of US Northern Command’s continental US defence mandate and the Canada Capt John E. Thompson, CD—Director to make up the difference,” Robert Gates, then U.S. Defense Under this new version of NATO, (I call it NATO 2.0), First Defence Plan which places considerable emphasis on northern security and Executive Director and Editor Secretary said in Brussels last year. the Alliance would only be activated to undertake missions sovereignty. It happened before, it could happen again—the US placing troops on Col (ret’d) Chris Corrigan, CD, MA Gates noted with frustration that fewer than half the 28 that the Canada, the United States, and the European Union Canadian soil ostensibly to defend the continental US. Past President nations in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization were en- believe are in their mutual and vital national interests. The George Friedman writes of the ever changing fortunes of nations and the cycles Col James R. Breithaupt, KStJ, CD, QC gaged in the Libyan conflict, and that fewer than a third were EU via CSDP would be primarily responsible for the defense of geopolitics. The demise of the Soviet Union 1989-91 still has a profound impact SPECIAL CONSULTANT TO THE BOARD conducting airstrikes, even though the coalition unanimously and security of Europe and its periphery, using NATO assets throughout Europe. Since 2008 Europe, Asia and the US have been in financial crisis. LCol Jeffery J. Dorfman, OMM, CD backed the decision to go to war to protect civilians. as it deems necessary. All nations need new strategies to deal with the challenges of recession, environmental Honoraries Questions remain about NATO’s decision to interpret Since 2003, the EU has used CSDP to conduct 27 civil- degradation and the declining quality of life. Col (ret’d) John Clarry, MBE, ED, CD, QC the United Nations authorizations to defend civilians in Beng- ian and/or military missions from Africa to Asia, deploying Nuclear safety is both a national and international security issue. Lawrence Honorary President hazi to also include regime change. A fateful decision that has more than 80,000 personnel, including soldiers, policemen, Husick addresses the problem of spent nuclear fuel—an issue distinct from the MGen Richard Rohmer, OC, CMM, DFC, O.Ont, KStJ, OL, Legion d’Honneur, QC already had a geopolitical fall out: Russia and China refused judges, custom officials, monitors, and rule of law experts. The natural disaster-induced reactor accident of Fukushima. Hopefully the Canadian Honorary Vice President to endorse UN sanctions against the regime of Hafez al Assad missions include the deployment of 3,700 troops to Chad, and Nuclear Safety Commission has made the distinction between safe storage of spent O.Ont, KStJ, CD, QC LCol (ret’d) Bruce W. Savage, CD of Syria where the killing of civilians proceeds unimpeded. the anti-piracy naval force off the Somali coast. nuclear fuel and ‘All Hazards’ management of CANDU reactors. Honorary Curator Recently Dan Bjarnason spoke at a Military History Night about the Battle of Mr. J. L. Granatstein, OC, FRSC In Afghanistan, the performance of NATO has been even Remarkably, all these deployments were planned Dr. Desmond Morton, OC more tragic, as Canadians know all too well. Unlike Canada, and executed without a permanent military headquarters Kapyong. Thomas Fitzgerald provides a review of Dan Bjarnason’s excellent “Triumph Honorary Historian at Kapyong: Canada’s Pivotal Battle in Korea”—a must read for everyone wishing to Mr. Arthur Manvell many of America’s largest NATO allies refuse to participate (MHQ). Opposition from NATO forced the EU to set up a Honorary Librarian in fire-fights because of their national caveats. The caveats system of five virtual MHQs. Under this system a new MHQ know more about this important event in our nation’s military history. LCol J. Roy Weir , CD, AdeC, QC Our own Eric Morse rounds out the issue with a note on an interesting (and Honorary Solicitor have had deadly consequences. An official report prepared for is designated for each European mission deployment. The potentially volatile) incident in Turkish-NATO relations. Chaplains the Czech Republic’s Army pointed out that Canadian forces MHQ is used only for the duration of the mission; after the Maj The Rev Gillian Federico, CD In his Letter to the Editor kindly offered by Commodore (ret’d) Robert N.
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