Peter Kasurak is a fellow of the Centre for International and Defence Policy at Queen’s University. He is the former senior principal at the Office of the Auditor General of Canada responsible for National Defence and National Security projects, and a former instructor at both the Canadian Forces College and the Royal Military College. In addition to writing numerous articles on the army, military culture, and civil-military relations in Canada, he is the author of A National Force: The Evolution of Canada’s Army, 1950–2000 and Canada’s Mechanized Infantry: The Evolution of a Combat Arm, 1920–2012.