Title: A soldier first
Description: In the summer of 2008, General Rick Hillier retired as Chief of the Defence staff of the Canadian Forces. You could almost hear the sigh of relief in Ottawa as Canada's most popular, and most controversial, military leader since the second World War left a role in which he'd been as frank, unpredictable and resolutely apolitical as any of his predecessors ...
Subjects: Canada, Generals, Biographies, Généraux, Politique militaire, Krijgsmacht, Canada. Canadian Armed Forces, Canada. Chef d'état-major de la défense, Military policy, Canada. Forces armées canadiennes, Canada. Chief of the Defence Staff, Biography, Canada, defenses, Canada, canadian armed forces, Generals, biography, Canada, biography, Military biography, Canada, history, military
Places: Canada
People: Rick Hillier (1955-)