By David Bercuson on April 25, 2011
The struggle to unseat the Taliban from power in Afghanistan, and keep it from returning to power, is Canada’s longest war by far. On September 11, 2001 terrorists hijacked four US passenger planes; they crashed two of them into the World Trade Center in New York City, destroying the center, and...
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Other Canadian Experience Instalments Canada’s Unique Unified Military
Post Date: Monday, April 11, 2011
Canada is the only country in the western world that has a single unified military instead of an army, navy and air force. This ...(more) Canada: The Peacekeeping Nation?
Post Date: Monday, April 4, 2011
Canada was once one of the world’s most active countries in United Nations peacekeeping operations. In fact, Canadians took ...(more) Canada Fights in Korea
Post Date: Monday, March 28, 2011
Most Canadians probably knew nothing of Korea in the late spring of 1950. The Second World War was five years in the past and the ...(more) Canada’s Second World War
Post Date: Monday, March 21, 2011
Canada declared war on Germany on September 10, 1939 largely to support Britain and France which had declared war on September 3. ...(more)
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By David Bercuson on April 18, 2011
On September 15 and 16, 1993 a battalion of the Canadian Army engaged in battle for the first time since the end of the Korean War 40 years before. The Canadian battalion — 2nd Battalion of the Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry (2PPCLI) ... (more)
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