Canadian track record for wars won as poor as for wars lost

There is a good reason why the Libya war registers barely a footnote in Canada’s military history. Despite the fact that Canada declared ‘victory,’ the civil war in Libya never ended.

After the NATO-assisted Libyan rebels toppled and executed president Muammar Gaddafi, the Harper government proudly staged a patriotic victory parade, complete with an RCAF flypast on Parliament Hill on Nov. 24, 2011, writes Scott Taylor.The Hill Times photograph by Sam Garcia

Opinion

BY SCOTT TAYLOR

September 20, 2021

OTTAWA—With the Taliban firmly back in control in Afghanistan, many Canadian veterans of that war are conflicted in their emotions. They question the sacrifice of those 158 comrades who made the ultimate sacrifice, the 2,000 fellow veterans who bear the scars of battle injuries, and the untold leg...

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