Oh, it was a circumstance that arose.... I'll try not to be too long about this. We'd just had the war against Saddam, the first Iraqi war, and all the nations of the UN came together. People were talking, just after that, about the golden age of the United Nations and peacekeeping, that if you fly into someplace and put up the blue flag, people stop fighting. And it was a mistake.
The Government of Canada sent the troops into Yugoslavia from our posts in Germany on the assumption that this would be a UN peacekeeping operation, with white vehicles brightly painted and a big UN flag, and that this would be enough to stop the operation.
Then when we discovered, almost immediately, when they mortared some of our first convoys going down the road, that, “Uh-oh, this ain't peacekeeping”, there was no adjustment; very little adjustment.