In the wake of Canada’s announcement that we will send 200 trainers to Ukraine, the phrase “phoney war” somehow stirs mental echoes.
Stipulated: the “real phoney war” (1939-40) was considerably different. War had been declared, but Hitler was caught off-balance by the speed of his victory in Poland, and had made no preparations for an invasion of the West. Nobody in London or Paris had any doubt that he was coming, simply nobody knew when, where or how hard. The eternal problem with intelligence: you may be able to see it, to read its licence plate from a satellite, to …read more
Source: Ottawa Citizen
