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Canada's peacekeeping myth 'needs to fade away,' retired general writes in memoir
Eyre says the 1993 battle showed under-resourced UN peacekeepers could not stop escalating violence.
- In his new memoir, Into the Breach, retired general Wayne Eyre declares traditional UN-style peacekeeping dead, citing his 1993 deployment to the Medak Pocket as a "turning point that saw the death of traditional UN peacekeeping."
- During the 1993 conflict in the former Yugoslavia, Eyre's battalion faced artillery fire, with the United Nations Protection Force unable to provide enough force to stop belligerents, causing the mission to fail.
- From 2021 to 2024, Eyre led the Canadian Armed Forces through a tenure consumed by "crisis stacked upon crisis," including the global pandemic, the Afghanistan evacuation, and the war in Ukraine.
- Admitting he was labeled "obstructionist" while managing limited resources and the Russian deterrence mission in Latvia, Eyre describes the "messiness of political-military relations" with government officials over decisions.
- Eyre argues Canada's future relies on strong alliances and selective military deployment, describing the 2,000-troop mission in Latvia as the most "geopolitically significant deployment that Canada has undertaken since the end of the Cold War.
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Canada’s peacekeeping myth ‘needs to fade away,’ retired general writes in memoir
OTTAWA - Canada's former top soldier says the country's "persistent myth" about being a nation of peacekeepers hasn't kept up with a changing world and it "needs to fade away."
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Canada's peacekeeping myth 'needs to fade away,' retired general writes in memoir
OTTAWA - Canada's former top soldier says the country's
·Winnipeg, Canada
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