Canada to develop sustainable SF
Canadian Special Forces effects will be in regular demand over the coming years and the service is planning ahead to ensure they can provide them.
CANSOFCOM commander, Brig Gen Michael Rouleau stated that a ‘sustainable enterprise’ is needed to deliver the capabilities required and that this has been the focus of a recent year-long exercise to study what Canada’s SOF need.
Speaking at an IISS conference, Rouleau said the result of this study was a strategic plan that was tabled in June.
In it CANSOFCOM identifies ways in which the organisation is developing.
In terms of equipment, he recognised that
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