Standing with Ukraine requires sound training, not scrapyard leftovers

Surely, we have learned something from our failed effort in Afghanistan to build a competent security force on the cheap and the quick?

Vice-Admiral J.R. Auchterlonie, commander of Canadian Joint Operations Command, speaks to the Canadian Armed Forces members tasked with training recruits of the Armed Forces of Ukraine during Operation Unifier in the United Kingdom on May 18. DND photograph by Corporal Marco Tijam

Opinion

BY SCOTT TAYLOR

September 25, 2023

OTTAWA—On Sept. 22, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy paid his first official visit to Ottawa since Russia invaded his homeland in February 2022. As expected, the charismatic Zelenskyy used the occasion to plead for continued financial and military support from Canad...

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