by Chris Thatcher | Jul 17, 2018 | Leadership, News
“There has been no greater privilege or honour for me than to serve as you commander.” With those final words, LGen Paul Wynnyk transferred command of the Canadian Army to LGen Jean-Marc Lanthier during a ceremony on Parliament Hill July 16. Despite the hot, humid...
by Chris Thatcher | Jul 11, 2018 | Leadership, News, Procurement
By Chris Thatcher On a corner of Brigadier-General Steve Kelsey’s desk sits a marked-up copy of Strong, Secure, Engaged. Coloured tabs stick out from the well-thumbed pages of the new defence policy, placeholders for current and future capability investments that will...
by Chris Thatcher | Jul 3, 2018 | News, Training System
By Chris Thatcher The federal government’s 2017 defence policy proposed to increase the Regular Force by 3,500 to 71,500 and the primary Reserve Force by 1,500 to 30,000, and to expand the roles and responsibilities of the Reserves to include combat capabilities such...
by Chris Thatcher | Jul 3, 2018 | News
By Steven Fouchard, Army Public Affairs Captain Matt Bernhardt has a good mental snapshot to illustrate the pace of life within his unit, 4 Artillery Regiment (General Support) Royal Canadian Artillery [4 Regt (GS)]: “Between July and December of last year, I was...
by Chris Thatcher | Jun 20, 2018 | Equiment, News
By Allan Joyner We own the night. It’s a mantra of many Western militaries and certainly one to which the Canadian Army subscribes. But as the technology associated with night vision systems improves, the Army’s edge might be slipping. Investment has not kept pace...
by Chris Thatcher | Jun 5, 2018 | C4ISR, Combat Vehicles, News
By Ian Coutts “There’s no such thing as a crowded battlefield.” The words are Alfred M. Gray’s. The former commandant of the United States Marine Corps, Gray was speaking metaphorically (the next words in the quote are, “Battlefields are lonely places”). In...
