[mark502inf]

robo, good article, thanks for posting it. My U.S. Army unit had PPCLI companies attached a couple different times in the 1990s for some significant training events in the USA as part of the Canadian forces effort to "get well" after the Somalia debacle. They were already good units, just as your article described, but the politics in Canada were such that they had to go thru the process.

Unfortunately, the Canadian Airborne Regiment abuses in Somalia spattered mud on the entire Canadian military and even worse, contributed to the mood of cutting defense spending in Ottawa that has led to their current military woes.

Peter, as you now may have figured out, the battle you described was Serb Christian vs Croatian Christian.

Serb revisionists trying to leverage post 9-11 sentiment often try to retroactively portray their various wars against their Balkans neighbors as some kind of pro-Christian, anti-Muslim struggle. It was not. Of note, there are more criminal counts against Slobodan Milosevic for crimes against Christian Croats than there are for crimes against any other nationality.

[Peter Libra]

Peter..... the battle you described was Serb Christian vs Croatian Christian.

Point taken and digested by me. I tried desperately to save face and shark up Albanian guerillas who had cast their lot in with the Croats.

Only a chief commander was known as an Albanian in that action. He threw his lot in with the Croats. He escaped war crimes charges,though a cruel adversary.

Anyway you are right. robowombat gives an excellent post on the Canadians. I now have learned more.