The Canadian Army is the army of Canada, founded in 1867. The army was created as a militia for the Commonwealth domain of Canada, and it fought against anti-British and Native American uprisings before being deployed overseas alongside other Commonwealth forces during the Second Boer War, World War I, the Russian Civil War, World War II, and the Korean War. The Canadian government supported Britain, its mother country, during several wars during the 20th century, but it would later subordinate its British allegiance to its allegiance to NATO and the United States, sending troops to fight in the Somali Civil War, the Croatian War of Independence, and the Afghanistan War. During the Iraqi Civil War, the Canadian army sent special forces to assist the Kurdish and Iraqi government forces. In 2015, the army had a strength of 23,000 regulars, 17,000 reserves, 5,000 rangers, and 4,500 civilians (49,500 in total).