Absolutely, it was a war. There was lots of strategic planning. Just like the Canadian operation in the example you gave, the invasion of D-Day, most of the high-level planning was actually done by Americans and British, not Canadians. There were Canadians involved in various different...but we were, because of the amount of commitment we were giving and the number of forces and equipment and stuff like that.... Generally, the people who get really into the strategic are the people providing the most.
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