The Canadian Army is about to embark on a wholesale restructuring in the face of growing demands for troops and equipment both overseas and at home, says the country’s top soldier.
A military modernization team is currently studying the problem against the backdrop of a shortage of as many as 5,000 soldiers, Lt.-Gen. Mike Wright told CBC News in a recent interview at the NATO training centre in Adazi, Latvia.
“The army we have now is not the army that we need for the future,” Wright said when asked if he was satisfied with the equipping of the troops on the Western military’s alliance’s deterrence mission in Eastern Europe.
