For those who casually follow the affairs of the Canadian military, it will come as no surprise that one of their primary roles has become that of training ...
Canadian Armed Forces soldiers from Lord Strathcona’s Horse partner with Polish and Norwegian armed forces to instruct Ukrainian recruits in Leopard tank fundamentals in southwestern Poland on Feb. 20, 2023. - Master Sailor Valerie LeClair / Op UNIFIER, Canadian Armed Forces photoWatch on
While Canada leads NATO in terms of military support for Ukraine, one has to wonder at what point Canadian instructors will prove unnecessary. It is difficult to fathom how 12-year-old combat experience in the Afghanistan counter-insurgency campaign would lend itself to instructing Ukrainian recruits to face a modern Russian military in the trenches of Donbas? The Taliban and other Afghan insurgent groups were armed with light automatic weapons and homemade improvised explosive devices. They had no artillery, no aircraft, no armoured vehicles, no body armour and no drones.
While a ceasefire was brokered between the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the separatist Ukraine militias of the self-proclaimed Republics of Donetsk and Luhansk, since 2014 this frontline has seen regular outbreaks of resumed combat. Low-level air defence systems have become so evidently vital to battlefield survival that the Canadian government recently spent $400 million to acquire such a system for the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
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