Interview with Lieutenant Colonel Colin Magee (March 22, 2022)

Interviewer: Ruky Osubele Interviewee: Lieutenant Colonel Colin Magee Rank: Lieutentant Colonel Medals and Honours: CD 3; ISAF; Special Service Medal – NATO, Peacekeeping Medal; Somalia Medal; US meritorious service medal An interview/narrative of Colin Magee's experiences serving in the Canadian Armed Forces. Interview took place on March 22, 2022 over a video call. ABSTRACT: 0:00 – 0:33 – Introductions 0:34 – 1:20 – Born in Ireland, growing up and schooling in Toronto and joined the Army. 1:21 – 8:51 – Joining the Armed Forces, Reserves, training, career and places served in. 9:11 – 13:46 – Cyprus, Experience leading a rifle company in Nicosia maintaining the UN buffer zone. 13:48 – 25:22 – Afghanistan, working with political advisors in ISAF headquarters in Kabul. 25:25 – 29:05 – Classifying Cyprus and Afghanistan as peacekeeping, peacemaking and counter-insurgency. Differences between peacekeeping and counter-insurgency, state building. 29:06 – 33:52 – Differences between peacekeeping, military peace and counter-insurgency. Intervention with or without consent. 33:53 – 38:44– Rules of engagement in peacekeeping vs counterinsurgency, tenents, equipment armed with (Cyprus vs Afghanistan). 38:47 – 44:44 – Conflicts situations for peacekeeping vs counter-insurgency missions. 44:45 – 53:18 – Peacekeeping and counter-insurgency as effective strategies in preventing conflict, factors that prevent peacekeeping and counter-insurgency missions from being effective. 53:19 – 57:23 – Peacekeeping and Canadian identity 57:23 – 58:54 – Peacekeeping tactics changing through his military career. 58:55 – 1:02:44 – Closing remarks

In Collection:

• Canadian Military Oral Histories

Contributor

• Magee, Colin
• Osubele, Ruky

Subject

• Personal narratives
• Counterinsurgency
• Magee, Colin
• Afghan War (2001-2021)
• Soldiers
• Military history
• Peacekeeping forces, Canadian
• Personal narratives--Canadian
• Peacekeeping forces

Language

• eng

Identifier

• Interview #SC141_MC_902

Keyword

• Peacekeeping
• Peacemaking
• Peacekeeping and Canadian identity
• UN bufferzone
• Rules of Engagement
• Afghanistan
• Cyprus
• Counter-insurgency

Date created

• March 22, 2022

Relation

• Part of the Military Oral History Class collection of interviews (HIST 426, Spring 2022).

Resource type

• Moving Image

Rights statement

• In Copyright - Educational Use Permitted

Extent

• 01:03:00

Alternative title

• Peacekeeping and counter-insurgency operations: A comparison based on Bosnia, Cyprus and Afghanistan

Geographic coverage

• Cyprus
• ttp://id.worldcat.org/fast/1205406

Coordinates

• 33, 66
• 35, 33

Physical repository

• University of Victoria (B.C.). Library

Collection

• Canadian Military Oral History Collection

Provider

• University of Victoria (B.C.). Library

Genre

• reminiscences
• oral histories (literary genre)
• interviews
• video recordings (physical artifacts)

Archival item identifier

• Accession Number: 2022-020; Series: VI; Item: 902

Fonds title

• Military Oral History collection

Fonds identifier

• SC141

Is referenced by

• Special Collections Finding Aid: https://uvic2.coppul.archivematica.org/military-oral-history-collection

Date digitized

• March 22, 2022

Technical note

• Metadata by KD.

Rights

• This interview has been posted with the understanding that it may be used for research purposes only. Should the interviewee or their heirs have any objections to this interview being accessible on the Internet, it will be removed promptly. Contact UVic Special Collections for permission if using for other than research purposes: speccoll@uvic.ca

DOI

•  https://doi.org/10.58066/cyht-rp77