Canadian soldiers on a tank during battlegroup exercises at the Adazi Training Area outside Riga (Chris Scott)
In a New Brunswick-sized country, small numbers add up.
It’s a crisp summer afternoon in a wood near Riga, and I’m squatting on the edge of a sandpit observing some of the 1,200 NATO troops who have come to help Latvia’s miniature, 5,000-soldier army, which is supplemented by an 8,000-strong reserve force, ward off Russia.
Behind me, sitting on a berm, are a few hundred infantry from Canada and the five other NATO nations that make up this Canadian-led mission. In front of us, ranged in …read more
Source: Macleans
