Chapter 3
Professionalism

Bentley, Lorne. Professional Ideology and the Profession of Arms in Canada.
Toronto: Canadian Institute for Strategic Studies, 2005. (B)
This monograph links the development of professional ideology to the specific development of the profession of arms in Canada. It provides the ideological basis for the Canadian profession of arms.

Canadian Forces Leadership Institute. Duty with Honour: The Profession of Arms in Canada.
Kingston: DND, 2003. (B)
This full-length manual provides the CF with an in-depth explanation of what defines the profession of arms in Canada (i.e. ethos and ethics, the civil-military relationship and Officer-NCM relations amongst a wide range of other topics.) This is the keystone manual on professionalism within the Canadian Forces.

Harris, Stephen, J. Canadian Brass: The Making of a Professional Army, 1860–1939.
Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1991. (E)
This book examines the historical evolution of the Canadian Army from a colonial militia to the army that went to the Second World War. The author critically describes not only its many failures but also its occasional successes, emphasizing throughout the requirement for effective leadership as an essential component of command.

Horn, Bernd, ed. Contemporary Issues in Officership: A Canadian Perspective.
Toronto: Canadian Institute of Strategic Studies, 2000. (E)
This book is a collection of papers by CF and civilian experts on many of the issues that, in the recent past and future, are of concern, debate and study within the Canadian Officer Corps.

Huntington, Samuel. The Soldier and the State.
Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1981. (E)
Considered to be a classic by many in its application of a multi-disciplinary approach to defining and describing the military profession. Although dated by current works, it nevertheless provides a deep analysis of what is a profession and who are professionals with their obligations and relationships to society.

Janowitz, Morris. The Professional Soldier: A Social and Political Portrait.
New York: The Free Press, 1960. (E)
Janowitz was one of the earliest sociologists to examine the military profession. Janowitz describes the life, organizational setting and leadership of the profession of arms, particularly focused on the American Army. It is equally applicable in theory to most other western militaries. Although many of his ideas, especially his concept of the constabulary military, were opposed and considered dated by the end of the Cold War, interest in this seminal work has increased during the Post-Cold War period as militaries grapple with their missions, roles and tasks in the new and future security environment.

Legault, Albert and Joel Sokolsky, eds. The Soldier and the State in the Post-Cold War Era.
Kingston: Queens University Press, 2002. (E)
This book is a collection of essays by leading experts of how the transformations within militaries from different regions of the world have evolved since the end of the Cold War. The book focuses on the civil-military relationship and how liberal-democratic norms are being transferred from parent societies to their militaries and how major western nations are transferring these norms to emerging democracies as a keystone of the foreign and defence policies.

Moskos, Charles, John Williams, and David Segal, eds. The Post-Modern Military: Armed Forces after the Cold War.
New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. (E)
This book is a collection of papers by the leading military sociologists in the world. The end of the Cold War has brought about major changes within the armed forces of western societies. This book presents a general theoretical model of national military transformation and examines the civil-military relationship, and trends in that relationship, as they have evolved in Australia, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Israel, Italy, the Netherlands, New Zealand, South Africa, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the United States.