war in AfghanistanThe Global War on Terror launched in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks on the United States has had a series of perverse effects. At its most egregious, it has licensed the return of torture and political assassination (now known as 'targeted killing'), as well as the ...
Being defined as fundamentally good, no amount of such altruism is too much. Thus, just as the US “War on Terror” is slated to go on indefinitely (even if the term itself is dropped), so we will stay in Afghanistan indefinitely. Canada is dressing itself in the shining robes of US ...
inAfghanistanWaronTerrorThe returned soldier has been a central figure in the first wave of Canadian plays to deal with the War in Afghanistan. Returned soldiers emerge as protagonists in Pierre-Michel Tremblay's Au Champ de Mars, Hannah Moscovitch's This Is War, and George F. Walker's ...
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The organizers of the Canadian section of the International Studies Association wondered if the notion of something "Canadian" in foreign policy might no longer be relevant in a world reconfigured by the pre‐eminence of the US and its single‐minded pursuit of its war on terror. A round ...
the Afghan war, the federal government approved the lease of Israeli-built drones from MacDonald Dettwiler and Associates in Richmond, B.C. Those unarmed aircraft operated out of Kandahar airfield. The Canadian Forces also previously operated unarmed French-built unmanned aircraft in Afg...
(2007), the second, to avoid risk of losing a non-confidence vote (2008), the third to gain time to get a senate majority to avoid investigation of torture of detainees by Canadian soldiers during the war in Afghanistan (2009), and the final effort to avoid the expense scandal in the...
A campaign is underway to honour a Canadian veteran with the country’s highest military medal for his actions in Afghanistan 15 years ago. Jesse Larochelle saved a platoon of his comrades outside Kandahar but his heroics took a horrible, physical and emotional toll on him. ...
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From the Red River Resistance and the Boer War through the world wars to modern peacekeeping and the long war in Afghanistan, David A. Borys details the conflicts and operations that Canadian soldiers have served in. He highlights the key battles, among them Amiens, the Scheldt Estuary, and ...