It’s all about Latvia
by Chris Thatcher “The operational art is about being unpredictable,” Lieutenant-General Joe Paul noted as he closed a lengthy discussion about Operation Reassurance and the Canadian-led multinational enhanced Forward Presence (eFP) Battle Group in Latvia....
Strathcona’s lead the Leopard tanks into Latvia
Well before then Defence Minister Anita Anand announced in June that Canada would be sending a squadron of Leopard 2A4M main battle tanks to support the Canadian-led multinational battle group in Latvia, members of the Lord Strathcona’s Horse (Royal Canadians) were...
Human Interoperability
by Anthony Seaboyer, Mike Rostek, Nancy Teeple, Ali Dizboni, and Yazan Qasrawi Military strategy increasingly relies on multinational alliances and coalitions to broaden capabilities, increase legitimacy, and deter conflict. Multinational interoperability is...
Dispersed command: A field experiment proves a command post can be decentralized and mobile, yet digitally connected
by Staff In the early days of the war in Ukraine, one of the more startling figures was the casualty rate of Russian command posts (CP). In the two months following Russia’s February 2022 invasion, Ukrainian forces located and destroyed “no fewer than 31 Russian...
In COBALT, a C2 backbone
by Ian Coutts When Thales Canada’s Neil Marshall, director of strategy, explains the problems that bedevil the Army’s command and control (C2) communications in the field, you get the feeling he’d like to give the boot to that adage about generals forever...
Taking back the night for tactical advantage
by Ken Pole In its June 2017 defence policy, the federal government used the word “vision” a lot but mostly in a generic contemplative way. However, tucked away on page 36 was a commitment to recapitalizing an outstanding requirement for new “soldier night...
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