RelatedAs it is almost certain Canada will become involved in French West Africa, Ottawa has been keen to begin that mission with French-speaking troops. Since early August, the Canadian army’s high-readiness brigade has been built around the Edmonton-based Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry. Like the French, the Canadian military needs to be careful about becoming overstretched. As African operations involving about 600 ramp up, it must also sustain about 800 troops in Kuwait and the Kurdish part of Iraq. With only five C-17 heavy-lift aircraft and oceans between these disparate missions and Canada, getting the logistics right will be job No.

Source: National Post August 30, 2016 18:22 UTC