Arctic Planning Scenarios – Scenario #1 - Defence Scenario
- Authors
- Corporate Authors
- Defence R&D Canada - Centre for Operational Research and Analysis, Ottawa ON (CAN);Lansdowne Technologies Inc, Ottawa Ont (CAN);CAE Professional Services, Ottawa (ON)
- Abstract
- With the change in northern climate over the past decade, current policy and media discussions have focused on the future of the Arctic. DRDC CORA has taken on a number of research projects, including the development of two Arctic security scenarios, a scenario development methodology, and a Capability Inventory Tool (CIT) to identify and characterize legislation and policy on the Arctic, with a view to developing scenarios for future planning and assisting operational commands in their interactions with other operations centres. This report presents one of two scenarios, focused on a defence-centric response scenario. The scenario makes use of the CIT to present an overview of the current situation and presents a projection out to 2015 to set context for a security environment in which there are significant tensions between Canada and Russia over arctic sovereignty. While all efforts have been taken to present a plausible scenario, the research was not based on any intelligence assessments and is not intended to be considered a probable future. Rather, it presents a context to test a range of capabilities required for Canada to be able to meet its strategy and policy objectives.
- Keywords
- Arctic;Scenario Development;Capability Based Planning;Defence
- Report Number
- DRDC-CORA-CR-2011-117 — Contract Report
- Date of publication
- 01 Jul 2011
- Number of Pages
- 62
- DSTKIM No
- CA035505
- CANDIS No
- 535155
- Format(s):
- Electronic Document(PDF)
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