translate English to French: Thereafter, neither Canada nor Australia felt they could disengage militarily from the outside world as they had done in the inter-war years, and both saw themselves as participants with other countries rather than independent military actors on the world stage.
L’expérience acquise par l’Australie rappelle le mythe de la « petite guerre » des milices canadiennes du XIXe siècle, consistant en des interventions à retrait rapide et sous couvert inspirées par les guerres de conquête de l’Amérique du Nord aux XVII e et XVIII e siècles.