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Crisis to Catalyst: The Strategic Effects of the Somalia Affair on the

19 Dec 2024

Examples of previous crisis in the Canadian civil-military relationship include the two conscription crises during the First and Second World Wars, and the actions of the Royal Canadian Navy during the Cuban Missile Crisis when they deployed in contravention of the orders of the Diefenbaker Government. [...] Introduction 5 to debate the overall success or failure of the Somalia mission.16 Peter Kasurak provides a third type of recently published work, contextualizing the Somalia Affair in a broader narrative tracing the history of the CA over the latter-half of the twentieth century. [...] Gervais, remained seemingly unaware of the situation.16 That these incidents were not viewed as being “major concerns” is itself a telling statement on the perception of the state of discipline within the CA at that time.17 Less than three weeks later, the CO of the Regiment was replaced.18 While reasons were not announced at the time to the Regiment’s soldiers, in the after- math of the Somalia A. [...] The relief of Lieutenant-Colonel Morneault is explored in great detail by Dan Loomis, and was centred on his reaction to the events of 2 October, the inadequacy of the measures that he took to ascertain who the guilty parties were, the idea of leaving one sub-unit from the CAR behind from the deployment, and his approach to integrating reservists into the unit before it deployed. [...] The incidents of 4 and 16 March, the manner they were dealt by military authorities in theater and in NDHQ, the reporting chain through to the MND, and the seemingly inexplicable delays in sending military police to investigate the deaths, combined to make discussion of the relative merits of the mission irrelevant.

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