Gen. Hillier: Two years as CDS
A major CanWest article assessing the General. Seems fairly reasonable to me.
posted by Mark, Ottawa at 2:36 p.m.
Saturday, January 27, 2007
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1 Comments:
"Hillier has a job to motivate the troops and make sure they understand why something is worth putting their lives on the line for," says Kenny, "but this is a democracy, and the prime minister and minister of defence -- not their military officers -- need to be doing the motivation of civilians and Canadians in general." Terry Copp, a military historian at Wilfrid Laurier University at Waterloo, Ont., says he worried during Hillier's first year in command that the general was getting ahead of government policy in some of his public statements. However, he notes that in recent months he appears to have reined himself in -- or been ordered to bite his tongue.
Well, when elected offcials stay silent for fear of political retribution, someone has to step up.
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