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Land operations 2021 : Opérations terrestres 2021 : opérations adaptables et dispersées : le concept d'emploi de la force de l'Armée de terre canadienne de demain

22 Jun 2007

To mitigate the unpredictability of future conflict and prepare the Army for the challenges it will face in the future, the Army has produced Land Operations 2021: The Force Employment Concept for Canada’s Army of Tomorrow, which serves as the guide for Land Force development through to the year 2021. [...] Regardless of the type of operation undertaken, the realities of the future security environment will demand land forces that are capable of rapid transition from one operation to the next, as well as conduct of the three types of operations simultaneously if and when necessary. [...] The following year the force employment concept (FEC) for the IA appeared, while the Directorate of Land Strategic Concepts (DLSC) launched ‘The Futures Project’ with the aim of completing the conceptual design of the Army of Tomorrow that would evolve out of the Interim Army. [...] Its doctrine is based on the manoeuvre approach to operations in which shattering the enemy’s overall cohesion and will to fight is paramount, and is achieved by targeting his center of gravity.2 This approach to Land Force operations had its genesis in the post-Cold War army concept debates of the early to mid-1990s and was further developed into the Interim Army following the decision to underta [...] The strength of the operational functions stems from the indivisible integration of capabilities and the incorporation of the moral, physical and informational planes.
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ISBN
9780662447436 9780662447429
Pages
46
Published in
Canada

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