Why We Fight: New Approaches to the Human Dimension of Warfare

For decades, the Canadian Armed Forces has used the work of foreign scholars and writers in its professional military education to try to understand the human dimension of warfare: why and how people are motivated to fight, and how they behave once they do fight. Yet the specific Canadian context, experience, and perspective are often lost in favour of appeals to universal truths.

The first major Canadian study of combat motivation in almost forty years, Why We Fight redresses this imbalance...