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Well I think it needs to be significantly larger, currently the Cdn Forces can barely sustain the fairly small Battle Group in Bosnia and the odd 6-month tour here and ther in places like Afghanistan or Ethiopia/Eritrea.
Currently, our Land Forces SUSTOPS is one BG in Bosnia, with a very limited surge ability of yet an even samller BG elsewhere, which is only managed with special govt extra funds or the "rob peter to pay paul" innovations from NDHQ.
We obviously couldnt/shouldnt try to best UK or US, but come on, Canadas current contributions abroad are analagous to sending one rubber dinghy to a flotilla of Aircraft Carriers. (Afghan deployment aside- but even that is now dramatically scaled back to 3 ships and 3 planes, and a few JTF2).
That is not pulling your weight as a country. Dont forget, at the end of the day, Canada still stands as one of the world‘s wealthiest nations, and could easily afford a force of 100,000 personel as opposed to the current force which is 60,000 on paper and about 53,000 actual.
Currently, our Land Forces SUSTOPS is one BG in Bosnia, with a very limited surge ability of yet an even samller BG elsewhere, which is only managed with special govt extra funds or the "rob peter to pay paul" innovations from NDHQ.
We obviously couldnt/shouldnt try to best UK or US, but come on, Canadas current contributions abroad are analagous to sending one rubber dinghy to a flotilla of Aircraft Carriers. (Afghan deployment aside- but even that is now dramatically scaled back to 3 ships and 3 planes, and a few JTF2).
That is not pulling your weight as a country. Dont forget, at the end of the day, Canada still stands as one of the world‘s wealthiest nations, and could easily afford a force of 100,000 personel as opposed to the current force which is 60,000 on paper and about 53,000 actual.