Full capability goal for Canadian SF
Canada’s Special Forces are developing their force strategy and capability for the post-Afghanistan strategic landscape.
Canadian Special Operations Forces Command (CANSOFCOM) tabled a new strategy in mid-June, according to the commander of the unit, Brig Gen Michael Rouleau, speaking at a conference at the IISS in London.
He said the strategy ‘maps out our path between now and 2025, with a particular focus on the years to 2018 to get us to a line of departure and finish the project’.
The project is the further expansion of CANSOFCOM since its creation in February 2006, when five elements of
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