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What, then, does the future hold? How do we proceed? Can a consensus be forged that nuclear weapons have no defensible role, that the political and human consequences of their employment transcends any asserted military utility, that as weapons of mass destruction, the case for their elimination is a thousand fold stronger and more urgent that for deadly chemicals and viruses already widely declared illegitimate, subject to destruction and prohibited from any future production? I believe that such a consensus in not only possible, it is imperative and is in fact growing daily.

- Gen Lee Butler

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Today in Military History

March 14



1862:

The Royal Regiment of Canada: Ready Aye Ready, and Nec Aspera Terrant (Difficulties do not daunt)


2002:

3PPCLI BG with C Coy 2PPCLI, were on Day 2 of Operation HARPOON, tasked to close with and destroy Taliban and Al-Qaeda fighters on the "Whales Back", a mountain in the Shah-i-Kot Valley, near Gardez, Paktia Province, Afghanistan. The Battle Group was part of 3 Brigade (Rakassans) 101st Airborne, as part of Operation ANACONDA. It was Canada's first combat operation since the Korean War and the first Battalion level helicopter assault onto a hot LZ. The Troops went in heavy at 3,000 metres plus and made history.




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