Abstract:

In the 1960s, the Canadian Army did not exist as such. There were two land force components: the units deployed with NATO forces in West Germany, and a large joint air-land force called Mobile Command. Mobile Command, dubbed "Global Mobile" by its members, was designed for Third World interventions. Not merely a joint command, Mobile Command also had its own doctrine and force development capacity which created concepts like "Situations Short of War" (1965) remarkabley similar to American concepts from the 1990's like "Operations Other Than War". There are two parts of the "Global Mobile" series.