Preventative military missions ‘not a bad idea,’ but hard to assess

The challenge is knowing where and when to go and how to convince politicians and the public that a mission is worthwhile, says MacEwan University's Jean-Christophe Boucher.

Canada’s Chief of Defence Staff Gen. Jonathan Vance says preventing conflicts before they happen is increasingly becoming an objective of military forces around the world.The Hill Times photograph by Jake Wright

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BY DENIS CALNAN

September 26, 2016

While it may be difficult to measure and evaluate the successes of a preventative approach to conflict resolution, many defence analysts agree with Canada’s Chief of Defence Staff Gen. Jonathan Vance’s comments that it is the direction the world’s militaries are going in. The challenge will b...

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