Wargaming the information environment

Wargaming the information environment

by Sean W. Havel   In July of 1870, in the spa town of Bad Ems, a polite conversation between a Prussian King and a French diplomat took place over the candidacy of a Hohenzollern prince to the Spanish throne. The two departed on good terms, despite the King’s...
What happens when you turn drones over to troops?

What happens when you turn drones over to troops?

by Ian Coutts   Sometimes you have an idea that is so good even you are surprised. When Jack Collier showed up at this year’s Exercise Maple Resolve in Wainwright in May, with a batch of Uncrewed Aerial Systems (UAS), he anticipated that members of 1st Battalion,...
Rapid military bridge evaluation software

Rapid military bridge evaluation software

by Andrew J. MacDonald and R. Gordon Wight   For modern mechanized militaries, mobility is critical. In Field Manual 3-90.2 The Tank and Mechanized Infantry Battalion Task Force, nearly a fifth of the pages of the main body of this document mention the word...
Can you print that?

Can you print that?

by Canadian Army Today staff   Last September, two 3D polymer printers were among the equipment airlifted into Latvia for rotation 20-02 of Operation Reassurance. Army units have been experimenting with additive manufacturing (AM) since at least 2014, but the...
MEL and Remotely Operated Platforms

MEL and Remotely Operated Platforms

by Dr. Dominik Pudo, Dr. Jean-François Daigle, Capt Joanne Clifford, Capt Angela Starchuk, MWO Richard Landriault   Since the first demonstration of the laser (an acronym for Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation) in 1960, its applications have...