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Listening to three former top commanders in the Canadian military at a parliamentary national defence committee hearing can be a scary business.

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Stuart Beare, a retired lieutenant general who was in charge of all deployed Canadian Forces, spoke of real threats to Canada and the world being at the highest since the Cold War and pointed the finger at Vladimir Putin, his aiders and abettors and China, in front of the committee discussing military modernization on Monday.

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“The need to deter major adversarial military powers is back,” he told the committee, which is looking at how to modernize the military. “And if deterrence fails, so too is the need to be able to prevail in what doctrine calls major combat operations or what we would typically simply call war.”

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