Framing Afghanistan and Canadian foreign policy as being in a state of crisis, Jerome Klassen and Greg Albo’s anthology Empire’s Ally: Canada and the War in Afghanistan (2013) comprehensively interrogates the intersections between the war in Afghanistan and changes in Canadian foreign policy. Now two years since publication, Canada’s military has withdrawn from Afghanistan, only to be redeployed (aircraft only as in Libya) to Iraq in the fight against ISIS as a continuation of what Adam Hanieh identifies as the “single war” in the Middle East. What is more, as I write this review, the parliament of Canada is voting to expand the Canadian mission against ISIS into the borders of Syria. A landmark move, this is but one example of the renewing evidence to ground the kind of “ally to empire” that the authors of this anthology argue Canada to be.