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0 “You know what it’s like,” says the Canadian, glancing up, watching as a group of 30 bored-looking Afghan recruits sit haphazardly on the gravel, chewing things or playing with their new caps. “It’s...” the Canadian soldier trails off and, still looking at the Afghans, he holds... -
0 The National Film Board of Canada is marking Remembrance Day with free online showings of the documentary The Van Doos in Afghanistan. Director Claude Guilmain caught soldiers’ frank comments about themselves and their work as the Royal 22nd Regiment went about its business in Afghanistan...
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1 The days are long and sometimes crazy, but without them the Canadian Forces would not be able to operate overseas or at home. For the most part, the men and women filling these days—and nights—work behind the scenes and rarely get recognized for turning seemingly... -
0 Over nearly five years of combat in Kandahar province, the Canadian Forces mission to defeat the insurgent Taliban has been called many things—‘the unexpected war,’ ‘the difficult war,’ ‘mission impossible’—but in the end it will be up to the historians, and history itself, to decide...
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0 Village elders gather for the Shura. PHOTO: ADAM DAY HEARTS AND MINDS ON THE LINE This is part four of Legion Magazine’s story on the efforts of one small Canadian unit to win the hearts and minds of a town in the Taliban heartland last...
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0 This is Part 3 of Legion Magazine’s series on the Canadian effort to win hearts and minds in Salavat, a restive community in Kandahar Province’s notorious Panjwai...
Canadian Forces in Afghanistan
