Tag: Canadian Armed Forces

• Impressions from the war of my youth, 25 years after the Medak Pocket.

  

  Arrival Arriving in Zagreb  stampeding down the stairs from the aircraft to the waiting minibus, no skyway just stairs mounted on a service vehicle and a garishly painted bus at the bottom with no seats just poles strategically placed., We crammed it like a Tokyo subway and within milliseconds the air became almost a solid object […]

  William Ray

  September 9, 2018

  Canada, Essay

  Battle of the Medak Pocket, Canada, Canadian Armed Forces, Canadian history, Croatia, Genocide, law, Medak, Medak Croatia, Medak Pocket, Medak Pocket Operation, Operation Harmony, Peacekeeping, war

• The Canadian Forces have been preparing to battle Pipeline protesters.

  

  This fictional battle against environmentalists was not just fought by the Canadian Forces. This was a “whole of government” response exercise involving the Canadian Security and Intelligence Service(CSIS), Communication Security Establishment Canada(CSEC, the NSA north), Royal Canadian Mounted Police,(RCMP), The Sûreté du Quebec(Québec provincial police) and the Service de Police de la Ville de Montréal(SPVM).

  William Ray

  June 7, 2016

  Canada, Québec

  #enbridge, #kindermorgan, #line9, #stopkindermorgan, africa, bill c-51, Canada, Canadian Armed Forces, Canadian Secerity Inteligence Service, energy east pipeline, enviromental activism, greenpeace canada, police represion, political represion Canada, royal Canadian Mounted Police, security services, Social unrest in canada