Army.ca's Fallen Comrades

They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old

As has happened so often in history, victory had bred a complacency and fostered an orthodoxy which led to defeat in the next war.

- Sir Basil H. Liddel-Hart (Strategy, 1954; discussing the French army between the World Wars)

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Military Word Of The Day

UCR

unsatisfactory condition report

Today in Military History

June 15

1915:

VC won by Lt Frederick William Campbell, 1st Battalion, CEF, Givenchy, France (posthumous)

1940:

A&SH leave France

1940:

The Canadian Provost Corps is authorized: Discipline by Example

1982:

Formal surrender by General Menendez to Major-General Jeremy Moore, of all Argentine Forces on East and West Falklands

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