by Editor | Jan 20, 2025 | Army Reserve, Army Reserves, Combat Capability, Digital Army, Exercises, News, S&T
by Chris Thatcher The road to a Brigade Tactical Network (BTN) in Latvia runs through the varied terrain of the Petawawa training area and the back lot and offices of 2 Canadian Mechanized Brigade Group Headquarters and Signal Squadron (2 CMBG HQ & Sig...
by Editor | Dec 24, 2024 | Army Reserve, Digital Army, News
by Chris Thatcher If the Army had callsigns for projects and initiatives, instead of the ubiquitous acronyms, the effort to develop a cloud-based tactical network might have been dubbed Roadrunner. In less than 12 months, Cloud TAK has gone from an idea to a...
by Editor | Dec 16, 2024 | Army Reserve, Army Reserves, Combat Vehicles, News, Procurement
by Ken Pole Deployed troops, like civilians, likely have a common perception of ambulances. They appreciate that the vehicles and their highly trained crews are always ready and available. But they obviously hope never to need one themselves. However, they can...
by Editor | Dec 3, 2024 | Leadership, News, Recruitment & Retention
Over the past 18 months, the primary focus of the Canadian Army commander has been the mission in Latvia: The transition from an enhanced Forward Presence Battle Group to a Multinational Brigade and all the resource challenges that created, from generating personnel...
by Editor | Nov 25, 2024 | Army Reserve, Army Reserves, Exercises, News, Training System
by Ken Pole At the last tally by the United Nations, dozens of member states continued to struggle with various types of unexploded ordnance (UXO), some of it dating back more than a century. Not all are the legacy of combat; many continue to be found in...
by Editor | Oct 19, 2024 | News, Procurement, Training System
by Ian Coutts “We don’t want someone buying a new rucksack who hasn’t marched with a rucksack in the last 20 years.” Colonel Walter Taylor is trying to explain the kind of graduate that the Army’s Applied Military Science Department School, at the...
