It is the purpose of this paper
to characterize countably subparacompact spaces in a number of ways and to
point out similarities in the pathologies of countably subparacompact spaces
and normal spaces. It will be shown inter alia, that a space is countably
subparacompact if and only if it is countably a-paracompact, and also if and only if
it is countably metacompact and subnormal. The well known product of
ordinal spaces, W × W∗, is shown to be not countably subparacompact,
despite the fact that W∗ is compact and W is countably subparacompact and
normal.