by Editor | Nov 18, 2023 | Equipment, News, Training System
by Ken Pole Considering firearms controls and setting aside the law enforcement community, the first time most Canadians encounter pistols is likely when they join the military. The Army is the most common vector since its approximately 44,000 Regular and...
by Editor | Nov 6, 2023 | Army Reserves, Combat Capability, Digital Army, Leadership, News, Operations
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....
by Editor | Nov 6, 2023 | News, Operations
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...
by Editor | Oct 12, 2023 | Leadership, News, S&T
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...
by Editor | Oct 2, 2023 | Digital Army, News
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...
by Editor | Sep 10, 2023 | Digital Army, News
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...