Making sense of the Afghan mission
Review by James Clark / October 1, 2014 / 3 min read
The last Canadian troops in Afghanistan were
scheduled to withdraw on March 31, 2014. nearly 13
years old, the Afghan mission is the longest-ever in
Canadian history, and represents a period of dramatic
transformation of Canadian foreign policy and
military strategy. That transformation, and the political
and economic forces that continue to drive it, is
the subject of Empire’s Ally: Canada and the War in
Afghanistan, a major contribution to the debate
about Canada’s role in the War on Terror and the
nature of the deployment.