When Modesty Is Not a Virtue: Learned Defence Expertise is Real

I read a terrific piece by my partner in crime (I am sure some members of some legislatures will consider our latest book* criminal due to our discussion of their, um, lack of relevance), Phil Lagassé, but took a heap of umbrage at his footnote: I dislike the term ‘expert’ when it comes to academics who study topics such as mine (defence policy or machinery of government), where practitioners are…