Canadian Army Land Warfare Center (Calwc) Future Army Project : Review and Implications

Summary: 'This Scientific Letter—written for the Canadian Army Land Warfare Center (CALWC) under the DRDC Manoeuvre Through Adaptive Dispersed Operations Project (MANADO)—provides an assessment of CALWC’s Army Futures project—a multi-volume study aimed at exploring the missions, tasks, characteristics and capabilities of Canada’s future army and to address the challenges which may arise circa 2040, through the use of alternative futures methodology. The letter serves as a follow-on to an initial assessment of the project’s research strategy and method produced in March 2015—extending that analysis to consider key issues surrounding the project’s execution and results. Following a brief overview of the project’s rationale and methodology, the letter describes and assesses key components of the project’s conduct. It concludes by offering a number of observations and recommendations concerning the conduct of similar (i.e., follow-on) research efforts by CALWC'--Introd., p. 1.