National Defence committee  I think she certainly covered it. In my experience, interoperability is an important issue for new troops coming in. Often it's that moment when you have a troop-contributing country that isn't used to operating alongside some of the more developed countries. Having some training

National Defence committee  Thanks very much, Mr. Martel. One quick note: I was never deployed in Mali, so these are observations from the outside. I think the security situation in Mali tends to ebb and flow, and there have been some gains by the military component of MINUSMA in some of the areas where

National Defence committee  Thanks, for this opportunity to brief this committee. I'll be under 10 minutes, so no worries there. Today I'll speak from my experience as the former political adviser to the UN peace operation in Congo, and from sometimes serving in other large peacekeeping operations. I'll t