Category:Army Formations

A formation is an organizational grouping of either units (for example a battalion of infantry or a regiment of armour, artillery, or engineers) or of smaller formations. A formation may be an administrative one - for example Land Force Western Area, or a tactical one; for example 4 Canadian Mechanized Brigade Group.

Heirarchy of Organizational Formations

• Land Force Command
• Canada Command
  • Land Force Areas
    • Regular Force Brigades/Brigade Groups
    • Reserve Force Brigades/Brigade Groups
      • Reserve Force Battle Groups
  • Canadian Special Operations Force Command
  • Canadian Expeditionary Force Command

Heirarchy of Tactical Formations

• Army Group
  • Army
    • Corps
      • Division
        • Brigade/Brigade Group