Organization, Selection and Training of National Response Teams — A Canadian Perspective
13. It is interesting to note that the South African Army Dog Training Battalion has provided so valuable a product that the 500 dogs and handlers currently trained are to be supplemented by greater numbers. 14. Military Balance 1980-81. op cit. 15. In comparison to the 5.98% GNP devoted to defence by South Africa, Canada pays 1.84%. 16. Denis Venter, "South Africa as an African Power: The Need for a Purposeful Detente Policy in Southern Africa", S. A. Institute of International Affairs, Newsletter, vol. 8, no. 2 (1976). 17. R.S.A., Department of Defence, White Paper on Defence 1977 (Cape Town, 1977), p.6 18. R.S.A. Department of Information, South African News, 16 Sept. 1977, p. 9 19. See, for instance, Jaster, op cit. 20. See Cape Times, 27 Oct 1978. 21. Johnson, op cit, p. 320. 22. See Paul Moorcraft, "Towards the Garrison State", in F. Clifford-Vaughan, ed., International Pressure and Political Change in South Africa, (Oxford, 1978). 23. Gervenka and Rogers, p. 348. 24. South African Digest, (Pretoria), 8 Apr. 1977, p. 3.
Terrorist incident management and jurisdictional issues: A Canadian perspective
This article briefly outlines the organization and procedures that have evolved at the federal level of the government of Canada for the handling and management of crises relating to internal security. Organization of policy formation and organization for crisis management are discussed. Jurisdictional difficulties between the federal and provincial governments are analyzed. The basic policy framework is to deal with terrorist incidents by refusal to yield to the demands of hostage takers, without precluding the granting of minor concessions, limited in scope to the immediate place and time of the incident. Unresolved policy issues are listed.
Reflections on modern terrorism
There has been an historic transition through which Type I terrorism and Type II terrorism are being combined. Type I terrorism consists of acts that attempt to impose terror by individuals or small groups on other individuals and groups, and through them indirectly on their governments. Type II terrorism is the imposition by governments on individuals or on groups of local or foreign populations, e.g., the use of atomic weapons, poison gas, Nazi camps for genocide. The new type of terrorism—Type III—has all the components for success. The article deals with how this new terrorism disrupts personal and historic memory through large‐scale catastrophe organized for that purpose. It is pointed out that this type of terrorism is met with self‐protection on the conscious level and has very little psychic cost on the perpetrators. Type III terrorism results from states disseminating high‐level technology. Target nations will not have open to them the conventional responses and will have to devise new methods. T...