Canadian Forces

  • NorthInset1
    0 Winston Churchill was wrong. Or at the very least, he wasn’t completely correct. Churchill once said that courage is the most important quality because it makes all the other qualities possible. That’s wrong though, I found...
  • TrainingInset2
    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...
  • C17 in Resolute
    0 Operation Nunalivut 2012 is underway in Canada’s Arctic as more than a hundred soldiers, sailors, air force and Canadian Rangers have descended on Resolute (in the C17 picture above, no less) in order to patrol, dive and fly their way across the frozen north. More...
  • 0 It’s not often — OK, almost never really — that a respected and experienced senior military officer will break from cover to make public criticisms of their own institution, the wars that institution is fighting and the way politicians intercede in those wars. But that...
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    Time machine to the Second World War

    February 2, 2012 by Sharon Adams
      The Army News website offers a peek into history with upbeat newsreel footage form the Second World War. Time Machine features  newsreels covering soldiers on the ground, ships at sea, planes in the air.  Other topics include women in uniform, using pigeons for communications,...
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    Boots on the ground in Libya?

    September 22, 2011 by Adam Day
    It seems to me that the NATO mission in Libya — which has involved a great many Canadian bombs falling on the country — has been sort of slipping under the radar, which is no doubt how the politicians would prefer it. And it’s true...
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