Canada's lack of participation in Korean War?

Question

Can you explain why Canada did not participate to her *full* capacity in sending 26 000 troops to Korean during the Korean war.

and if you can, can you provide a rebuttle of Canada's efforts because she put alot of effort because the force size to population size is one of the largest.

Answer 1

As a citizen of the U.S., it is understandable to me that a nation that sent as many of its young men to fight around the world for two years longer than ours did and lost proportionally more of them because they did NOT rotate out of combat positions as, for example, U.S. aircrew did, would need more time to rebuild as a nation than we did.

By the way, there was no such thing as a Korean War. There was an invasion of South Korea by forces of North Korea and there was a U.N. police action undertaken to oppose this. Check the book.

Answer 2

It's hard to say Canada did not provide a meaningful commitment to the Korean war. Canada did sent a sizable ground contingent, but the US forces were 95% of ground forces.
Canada also sought to restrain the US diplomatically in the war, which might have prevented a retaking of the North but might also have prevented a war with China.
http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0030-8684(197702)46%3A1%3C149%3ATDOCCT%3E2.0.CO%3B2-8

Answer 3

There's just some idiots out there who have nothing better to do than to hate.