Don Macnamara, a specialist in national and international security affairs and strategic intelligence analysis, retired as a Brigadier-General after 37 years in the RCAF and Canadian Forces. For the last half of his military career he was doing and teaching strategy, strategic analysis and planning in National Defence Headquarters, the Canadian Forces College and the National Defence College.

Closing remarks

At this point it is my job to wrap this conference up. I would like to say that I believe we have had a rich series of panels with excellent opportunities for discussion and we are very grateful for their insight and thought that bring a historical perspective and some recommendations but with the underlying theme that there is support for NORAD and our participation within it.

We are a post national and post modernist state and I see this coming through in the poll as well. We have particular insight on NATO and this has been invaluable to our discussion of NATO today. I must say that this conference just doesn’t happen and first and foremost everyone who has been involved in organizing conferences knows that you can’t do it without two things.

The first is the sponsors. It is a joint conference that has been hosted by CDFAI and CIC, specifically the SSWG. Our premiere sponsors include ATCO Structures, the Department of National Defence, Lockheed Martin. Our Eminent sponsors are NATO, Raytheon, and the Canadian Defence Review. We also have our organizing group of David Bercuson, myself, Bob Millar, and Colin Robertson.

Finally, thank you all for coming today and for your participation. We set out to have a program that was not going to be a talking heads group but a discussion and an exchange of views and we look forward to doing this again in the future.