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Old 11-02-2007, 14:26 PM   #34 (permalink)
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Sir these are UN peacekeeping and NATO operations.
Not sure what you're getting at. These were complete and wholely independent battle groups who operated without support from other contingents.

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The second one is definitely under US leadership.
If you mean this is a coalition deployment, it is but the Canadians (and British and Dutch for that matter) are completely responsible for their AO.

I think we better define what is an independent operation. D-Day while an allied operation was actually 5 independent operations (5 beaches). The Canadians were responsible for Juno Beach and thus, that was an independent Canadian operation even though it supported an overall scheme.
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