Hodgepodge of missions almost makes you yearn for clear-cut days of Afghan fight

We didn’t win the war in Afghanistan, but those days of purpose and clarity have been replaced with a perplexing set of new challenges for the Canadian military.

A Canadian instructor demonstrates magazine-loading technique to Ukrainian soldiers at the International Peacekeeping and Security Centre in Starychi, Ukraine on Feb. 15.Photograph courtesy of DND

Opinion

BY SCOTT TAYLOR

March 8, 2017

OTTAWA—From 2002 to 2014 the Canadian military had one primary mission and a singular focus and that was, of course, the mission in Afghanistan. The rotations of contingents into Kandahar became so routine that the Canadian Army constructed a replica of a southern Afghanistan setting at Canadian F...

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