Analysis Who would have guessed at the beginning of 2014 that by the fall Canadian warplanes would be bugging out of several airfields in a tiny Persian Gulf emirate to conduct round-the-clock combat operations against jihadists over Iraq or that other Canadian warplanes would be policing the airspace of Baltic states frantic to avoid Russian predations? The answer: About as few Canadians as would have foreseen in the summer of 2001 Jean Chrétien would send joint task force commandos to Afghanistan, followed a few months later by a battalion from the Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry to join the...
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