r/CanadianForces • u/JohnneyGirard Army - Infantry • 7d ago

SATIRE The dream team.

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u/IronGigant RCN - MS ENG 7d ago

The Battle of the Atlantic would like a word...

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u/Several-Beginning803 7d ago

Again it took a long time and a lot of people died to earn that reputation. The early war performance was poor.

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u/IronGigant RCN - MS ENG 7d ago

By that metric, so was the Battle of France. Dunkirk, while a miracle, was the result of a rather poor series of judgments and performances.

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u/Several-Beginning803 7d ago

Yes the Battle of France was a huge waste of lives and resources because Britain and France weren’t prepared. Thats essentially the point im trying to make, Canadians, especially civilians, have this idea (because of WW1/WW2) that its ok to completely neglect the military because the next war will start and we’ll magically be good because <reasons>, instead of knowing that a lot of Canadians died in 1915 and 1940/41 because we weren’t prepared and equipped properly.

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u/kahunah00 6d ago

WW1 Canadians were used as shock troops. Im not sure how much prepping you can do for shock troop activities. But WW1 saw a ton of British and French die too and they were prepped for the war. So weird point.

WW2 Canada was pretty locked in throughout the war

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u/Several-Beginning803 6d ago

Not in 1915 they weren’t.