Mr. Kieran Brennan:

As the Senator knows, the history of peace enforcement goes back to 1993 with the UNOSOM mission to Somalia. That was a massive change in Government policy. Effectively, the policing aspect of peacekeeping has evolved into peace enforcement. My missions to Kosovo and Chad were peace enforcement. It meant that our rules of engagement were such that they allowed us to bring a degree of force to any situation. The critical thing is that peace enforcement brings the possibility of protecting civilians. It is incorporated into our mandate, as it was in Chad. Peace enforcement is the way we have gone and we are trained for peace enforcement. It is the way we will be going into the future, as far as I can see, in relation to future deployments of the Defence Forces.