Foreign Affairs committee  I'm going to defer to my colleague, Colonel Pellerin, who is an expert in these matters and can elaborate on some of the things I said and can help to answer your questions.

Foreign Affairs committee  Yes, counter-insurgency has been around a long time. It's not a new form of warfare, but the type of counter-insurgency that's being encountered in Afghanistan today is really very different. It's sometimes difficult to bring past experience to bear in military tactics and stra

Foreign Affairs committee  I thank you for this opportunity to appear before your committee this afternoon to talk to you about Afghanistan. I am the president of the Conference of Defence Associations Institute, which is the research arm of the CDA itself. The CDA is Canada's oldest defence organization,