National Defence committee  Tropical Hammer wasn't a very effective tool to essentially generate capability at the general operations support level. To be very candid, as I came in and took responsibility for the high road to readiness training that was undertaken primarily by the army, where it brought tog

National Defence committee  Not directly in those. We would have had augmentation but not direct involvement in those.

National Defence committee  In simple terms, we are at various stages of discussion and very much at the governmental level in terms of consideration. So we're moving. We've had great support inside the department thus far in terms of the minister. The concept will evolve. And then as we deal in certain reg

National Defence committee  Relationships, in my mind, are critical. Part of my responsibility, with strategic importance, is that I sit on a number of boards or forums that allow me to interact with the international. There's one in particular. We have a Quadrilateral Logistics Forum, which essentially is

National Defence committee  It is a challenging environment in which to work. In simple terms, if you were to take an overlay of the map around Afghanistan, ISAF over the last number of years has made great advances in terms of expanding ground lines of communication in from the north by rail. A lot of thos

National Defence committee  I don't foresee at this time it being prepositioning of materiel, if that's what your question is implying. I see very clearly force projection sustainment. You will need warehouse space. If you're putting a force into a place, I'm going to bring materiel in. I'm going to then ch

National Defence committee  Jamaica is probably a good example, if we think back to the Haiti issue. In the Haiti earthquake--very tragic--we actually were able to use Jamaica as an air-head, so in fact the air force used it primarily for strategic lift and then they transshipped into tactical lift to move

National Defence committee  Again, I don't want to over-complicate the legalese. When I use the term “MOU”, in my mind it refers to a government-to-government relationship that is short of a treaty, in terms of how you would be allowed to move people through and talk about some jurisdiction issues and such.

National Defence committee  I, personally, do not have to generate my own troops. The training system, of course...when you talk about loggies, as an example, they are actually owned by the joint community. So the Chief of Military Personnel is the functional authority for logistics. That capability will be

National Defence committee  We're at the front end of actually confirming what that will look like in terms of dollars, to be honest, in terms of managing. What you're really talking about is what it would take to manage those. The operating concept is that once we have the agreements in place, then based o

National Defence committee  I'm not quite sure of the question.

National Defence committee  What we do in a hub is something that we can ramp up or down or is scalable. There are some basics. I talked about force projection, and I talked about sustainment, so that implies there are some things we would be looking for. For instance, we need to confirm warehouse capabilit

National Defence committee  Yes, sir.

National Defence committee  Correct. What you will need, based on the range and activities being forecast, will be some basic parameters you will try to put in place. I talked about warehouse space as an example. There would potentially be throughput for the military, so if I'm doing force projection, I'm b

National Defence committee  They have a lot of capability inherent to themselves. So when I talk about service capability, we all understand that a unit, a squadron, or a ship has what we call integral support. That belongs to the services. Likewise, if I were talking about a brigade, a wing, or a naval tas