I would follow it up very briefly by echoing Admiral Murray's view that the lessons learned review process has always been part of the basis of armed forces organization for a modern professional military force. The particular offices that carry out this work have been resourced very effectively in the last 10 years. Afghanistan is an issue that's tracked well. Perhaps one of the problems we have is that for the period of the 1990s, in which there were a great number of missions in a wide variety of places across the world, we know very little about those. We've remembered very little about those, partly because of a major demographic shift in the nature of personnel in the Canadian Forces. The people who were there on those missions have retired. We probably do need to make a major effort to undertake historical research on the nineties before the memories of those individuals who were there, like Admiral Murray, are lost.
On March 6th, 2012. See this statement in context.