Dispatches: Military Engineers in Afghanistan

Military Engineer operations in Afghanistan represented the culmination of previous decades of Cold War training and peace support operations. The changing situation and unique environment of Afghanistan provided harsh and unforgiving conditions for the conduct of engineer operations. Moreover, it allowed us to learn, as well as refine, much about how we fight and support combat.

This Dispatches covers a wide breadth of engineer-related topics, but it does not cover them all. The primary area of focus was our combat engineer experiences in the Kandahar region. Despite that, the contributions of Engineers throughout the entire Canadian Military Engineer Branch are mentioned or acknowledged wherever possible. “Military Engineers in Afghanistan” represents the collaboration of many different contributors who are to be commended for giving unstintingly of their time in the research contributing to this report.