Military is banking on tanks

Canada is set to receive dozens of new tanks, and they're bigger and mightier than before. Canadian Forces thinking is now far from Hillier’s vision of transformation.

By Bob Bergen

Published Feb 8, 2012 6:19 PM

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MCpl Marc Lavergne secures a Leopard 2A6 at Kandahar airstrip in Afghanistan in 2007.

Only history will tell if retired former chief of defence staff Gen. Rick Hillier’s criticism of the voluminous National Defence and the Canadian Forces' Report on Transformation 2011 is valid.

Hillier claims the report’s recommendations, authored by retired Lt.-Gen. Andrew Leslie, would destroy the Canadian military if acted upon. The report recommended, among other things, saving $1 billion annually by reorganizing the Forces and cutting 11,000 headquarters comma...

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