This book advances the contemporary intervention literature by focusing on Canadian Armed Forces deployments and the role of the public service. The author focuses on three recent post-Afghanistan deployments, including Iraq, Ukraine, Mali, and one non-deployment to Colombia, seeking to explain why the Canadian government varies in deploying the armed forces abroad, specifically the time required to announce a deployment and the deployment s composition/size. The book seeks to examine the civil-military relationship in Canada and highlight aspects of the principal-agent relationship by focusing on how the federal bureaucracy defines and shapes military commitments. These four case studies look past the implementation stage of the decision-making process to explain how federal bureaucracies impact policy through agenda setting and policy formulation, specifically in regards to the use of armed force abroad.
