Our military was slashed and burned during the 1990s when ordered to contribute 27 per cent of its budget toward paying down the national debt, a percentage greater than any other government department. It was impossible to immediately reduce spending by that amount except by dramatically reducing the number of its uniformed personnel. As a result, Canada has an army that can be seated in the old Maple Leaf Gardens with some empty seats left over. Our regular infantry, which does most of the dirty work outside the wire in Afghanistan, is well over a thousand soldiers of all ranks - but still smaller than the Toronto Police Service.
Read the rest of Canadian Major-General Lewis MacKenzie's article here.
[HT: Real Clear Politics ]
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