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The paper I cited got it bang on. Chretien wasn't asking the military to do more with less but less with less because that was the reality of the times.
No Chretien WAS asking the military to do more with less (do you know anyone who served during the 90's? I do), throughout the last decade he deployed the military on countless feel good UN missions while at the same time cutting the budget back and back and back. The CF was stretched to the breaking point.
Maybe the cuts could have been acceptable had they reduced the operational tempo, but they didn't.
As for the Liberals not deserving all of the blame, I say while both Conservative and Liberal governments oversaw the decline (and thereby both partly responsible), which PM started us on the path of massive defecit spending?
I'll give you a hint, he wasn't a Conservative.
Yes. My father and brother in law and about 10 highschool friends.
As fo being asked to do more with less we seem to get the double complaint that also includes complaints
for not utilizing the military.
As for the debt/deficit I know full well it was started by Pierre. I once posted the yearly debt accumulation from the start up until the present time in order to show who was responsible for what. Mulroney was. I also added economic qualifiers showing during what years Canada experience a depression and what years we experienced economic upturns. The Liberal won on that account also.
I'm not defending Trudeaus military cuts any more then you are defending Mulroneys. I am defending Chretiens difficult decisions against the moronic belief that he should have just waved his magic wand and repaired 20 years of neglect to the military all the while loering taxes and eliminating the debt.
It seems that many of the military people attacking the Chretien for his descion have forgotten entirely all the other departments and that they too were savaged and asked to do with less.
The alternative was banckruptcy.
CKA Uber 
