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The combination of professionalism and technology may also result in narrow-minded specialization more suited to a debating society than to an organization whose task it is to cope with, and indeed live in, the dangerous and uncertain environment of war.

- Martin van Crevald, military historian

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Today in Military History

December 19



1917:

Canadian Conscription law becomes effective


1941:

VC won by CSM John Robert Osborn, 1st Battalion, The Winnipeg Grenadiers, Hong Kong (posthumous)


1964:

Halifax Nova Scotia - Royal Canadian Navy commissions HMCS Annapolis; 20th ship in destroyer escort program.




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