From SSE
- Meet commitments to NATO Allies under Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty;
- Contribute to international peace and stability through:
- − Two sustained deployments of ~500-1500 personnel, including one as a lead nation;
- − One time-limited deployment of
~500-1500 personnel (6-9 months duration);
- − Two sustained deployments of ~100-500 personnel;
- − Two time-limited deployments (6-9 months) of ~100-500 personnel;
- − One Disaster Assistance Response Team (DART) deployment, with scaleable additional support; and
- − One Non-Combatant Evacuation Operation, with scaleable additional support.
I'd argue the CAF has been asleep at the switch if they refuse to admit that a Bde would be necessary in the top commitment - and looking at the contributions to international peace and stability has the potential to demand 7k troops plus DART and NEO.
Given the Lead Nation sustained deployment of up to 1,500 and one time limited deployment of 1,500 -- one could reasonably assume that a Bde may be surged for Peace and Stability Ops -- let alone what might be needed under Article 5.
If I was on the CCA staff that is the bare minimum that I would have planned for -- SSE gave the CAF a lot of room, but I would argue that a lot of the staff preferred to build a box, jump in and close the lid.