Combat Readiness and the Canadian Army

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Abstract : The Canadian Army is incapable of executing National Defense tasks as assigned by Canadian Defense Policy. The Canadian Army has a history of being ill prepared for major conflicts. A combination of negligent senior leadership in both the Army and the Government has allowed the Canadian Army's combat readiness decline to the point where it is not capable of safely executing either assigned warfighting or operations other than war tasks. The present, unacceptable, situation has been exacerbated by the naive belief that the end of the Cold War has negated the requirement for combat ready conventional forces. The consequent rush to realize the ?peace dividend? has resulted in reduced defense spending and an accelerated decline in the capabilities and effectiveness of the Army. The Army is undermanned, ill equipped and poorly trained. However, through a process of reorganizing, restructuring and making modest equipment acquisitions the Army can make radical improvements in its l

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