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  NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Canadian Army
Land Force Atlantic Area is responsible for army operations of Canadian Forces Land Force Command in the Canadian provinces of New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward Island.
Land Force Central Area (LFCA) is responsible for all Canadian army operations and administration in the province of Ontario, from the Quebec border to the northern Lakehead region.
Land Force Western Area is responsible for all Canadian army operations and administration in western Canada from the northern Lakehead region of Ontario to the Pacific Ocean.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Canadian-Army   (644 words)

  
 Canadian Forces - CAForces.com
Canadian Expeditionary Force Command (CEFCOM) Under the a transformed CF structure, Canadian Expeditionary Force Command (CEFCOM) is responsible for the planning, and conduct of all Canadian Forces (CF) international operations, with the exception of operations conducted solely by the Canadian Special Operations Forces Command (CANSOFCOM).
Canadian Forces reserve force The CF reserve force comprises the Primary and Supplementary Reserves, the Canadian Rangers and the Cadet Instructor Cadre and is represented, though not commanded, at the national level by the Chief of Reserves and Cadets (a Major General or Rear Admiral).
The CF maintains a "total force" policy as outlined in the 1994 Defence White Paper, where reservists are (in theory) trained to the level of and interchangeable with their regular force counterparts.
www.caforces.com   (3735 words)

  
 Resources - Education and Training
The CF views Continuing Professional Education as a responsibility to its professionals, facilitating life-long learning and development and as a mechanism to constantly improve occupational knowledge and skills.
The Canadian Forces Nuclear, Biological and Chemical School (CFNBCS) Borden, Ontario, is the national Centre of Excellence and the primary source for joint advanced individual training in the areas of Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Defence, Nuclear Emergency Response, Radiation Safety and Chemical, Biological, Radiological/Nuclear Counter Terrorism response.
The Canadian Forces School of Meteorology (CFS), Winnipeg, Man., is the central meteorological training facility for CF Met Tech and provides basic and advanced courses in meteorology and oceanography.
www.forces.ca /v3/engraph/resources/educationtraining_en.aspx   (2131 words)

  
  file_nav_name Encyclopedia Index
Command of the sea is a technical term of naval warfare, which indicates a definite strategical condition.
Command responsibility, sometimes referred to as the Yamashita standard, or the Medina standard is the doctrine of hiera...
Command and Conquer: Tiberian Twilight, codenamed Command and Conquer 3, is the sequel to Command and Conquer: Tiber...
www.brainyencyclopedia.com /topics/command.html   (8562 words)

  
 DND/CF : Backgrounder : Canadian Forces Operations in Afghanistan
The CF commitment is an important aspect of the Government of Canada’s whole of Government approach to assisting Afghanistan.
The CF contribution to Afghanistan consists of approximately 2,500 personnel from units across Canada and is referred to as Joint Task Force Afghanistan (JTF AFG).
The CF efforts in Afghanistan are subdivided into three distinct missions that work in concert with each other and have the same overarching goal of improving the security situation in Afghanistan, and assisting in rebuilding the country.
www.forces.gc.ca /site/newsroom/view_news_e.asp?id=1703   (2392 words)

  
 Royal Air Force - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
The Air Force Board (AFB) is the management board of the RAF and consists of the Commanders-in-Chief of the Commands, together with several other high ranking officers.
Authority is delegated from the AFB to the RAF's commands.
Strike Command — HQ at RAF High Wycombe — responsible for all of the operations of the RAF.
www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/Royal_Air_Force   (3899 words)

  
 Canadian Forces at AllExperts
The Canadian Forces are governed by the National Defence Act, which states::The Canadian Forces are the armed forces of Her Majesty raised by Canada and consist of one Service called the Canadian Armed Forces.
Materiel Command was disbanded during the 1980s and Communication Command was disbanded in the mid-1990s at the same time as Force Mobile Command was renamed.
By the Canadian Constitution, the Command-in-Chief of the Canadian Forces is vested in Queen Elizabeth II, as Queen of Canada.
en.allexperts.com /e/c/ca/canadian_forces.htm   (5088 words)

  
 Canadian Forces information - Search.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-26)
Unlike the armed forces of Canada's closest allies -- the United Kingdom, United States, Australia, and New Zealand -- the Canadian Forces is a single organization with a unified command structure.
The CF reserve force comprises the Primary and Supplementary Reserves, the Canadian Rangers and the Cadet Instructor Cadre and is represented, though not commanded, at the national level by the Chief of Reserves and Cadets (a Major General or Rear Admiral).
As of April 2006, Canadian Forces are in operations throughout the world, as part of Canada's obligations to NATO and the United Nations, as well as in support of its international allies.
c10-ss-1-lb.cnet.com /reference/Canadian_Forces   (4584 words)

  
 
This process differs from current planning primarily through the commander's ability to exploit information technology--the rapid assessment of massive volumes of information tailored to the commander's needs: unprecedented access to supporting staffs and databases, and the means to test the commander's assessments through interactive computer-supported wargaming and rehearsals.
While commanders may attach liaison teams to perform these functions, the preferred method is to task an existing staff with the resident expertise to provide the staff support to the combined arms task force through the force's digital systems.
Commanders must determine the optimum time and place to establish, employ and reintegrate task force assets into their force.
www.fas.org /man/dod-101/sys/land/docs/xst_206-20-30/CHP4FD.html   (4454 words)

  
 JTF2 - ShadowSpear Special Operations
The Joint Task Force Two (JTF2) is a Special Operations Forces unit responsible for federal Counter-Terrorist operations whose mission is to provide a unit capable of rendering armed assistance in the resolution of an incident that is affecting, or has the potential to affect, the national interest.
The Canadian Forces Armed Assistance Directions[1] (CFAAD) establish the procedures for the request and provision of armed assistance by the CF to the RCMP.
CF resources can be positioned close to the site of a disturbance while the situation is developing, and before any armed assistance is authorized.
shadowspear.com /jtf2.htm   (1838 words)

  
 About JTF2   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-26)
JTF 2 is a unit of the CF and is subject to exactly the same code of conduct, military discipline and overriding Criminal Code statutes as any other military unit.
The Commander Canadian Special Operations Forces is accountable to the Chief of the Defence Staff who, in turn, is responsible to the Minister of National Defence.
On land, at sea and in the air JTF 2 challenges itself to ensure it's ready to defeat a multitude of potential threats.
www.ops.forces.gc.ca /units/jtf2/pages/about_e.asp   (1122 words)

  
 CdnMilitary.ca - Your CF Information Node for the Past 5 Years   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-26)
Given today's advances in global transportation, it is no longer necessary to leave a military force in one mission area for years (historically, British troops would move their lives to their station as it would be years, if not decades, before they would have the chance to return home).
After, for example, six months of being in the mission area, Force A is relieved by Force B. The same makeup of capabilities is generally maintained, unless otherwise required, however the troops in the mission area are fresh.
Force A would have been the first rotation in the mission in this example, with Force B comprising the second rotation.
www.cdnmilitary.ca /articles/operationAthena.htm   (1110 words)

  
 Canadian Forces Land Force Command - Armed Forces - CKA
LFC is the descendant of the Canadian Army which was the name of Canada's land forces from 1940 until February 1, 1968.
In 1939, the Canadian Active Service Force was mobilized; similar to the CEF, this was a mobilization of prewar PF and NPAM units, who retained their traditional titles.
Following unification of the armed forces in the late 1960s, the army was again retitled to become Force Mobile Command, with both a regular and a reserve component.
www.canadaka.net /modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=116   (983 words)

  
 force-land - Search Results - MSN Encarta
- make forced landing: to land an aircraft before it gets to its destination because of an emergency, or land in these circumstances
As the Land Force Command component of the CF, the Canadian army is responsible for land combat and for physically protecting people and land-based...
Force (law) : self-defense and defense of property
encarta.msn.com /force-land.html   (166 words)

  
 The Canadian Military
Canada Command is for homeland security, the Expeditionary Force is for foreign missions, and the Special Operations is for covert and secret stuff.
The commander is always an American and the deputy commander is always a Canadian.
The bulk of the naval forces are the 12 Halifax Frigates, 12 Kingston defense ships, four Victoria hunter-killer submarines, and three Iroquois destroyers.
www.filibustercartoons.com /canguide_army.php   (1084 words)

  
 Canada-US Defence Cooperation - CASR - Canadian American Strategic Review
This can then be used by a central command authority to command, fire and control the weapons of a subordinate, third-party unit to attack a target never seen by the firing entity.
With respect to the CF’s strategic airlift capabilities, it is interesting to note that the DND has evidently decided against adopting a fully integrated solution.
At one point the Air Force had considered buying as many as six Boeing C-17 aircraft for this purpose and then ‘loaning’ them to the United States when they were not required by the CF.
www.sfu.ca /casr/ft-middle1.htm   (1933 words)

  
 The Canadian Army - Biography of Lieutenent-General JHPM Caron, OMM, MSM, CD
He enrolled in the Canadian Forces in October 1971 and, after having completed the Officer Cadet Training Programme, he was commissioned in May 1973.
In the course of his professional training, Lieutenant-General Caron has attended several military educational institutions: Royal Military College of Science in Shrivenham, England in 1981; the Canadian Land Force Command and Staff College in Kingston in 1982; the Canadian Forces Staff College in Toronto in 1984; and the US Army War College in 1994.
In February 2005, Lieutenant-General Caron was appointed as Commander of the Army.
www.armee.forces.gc.ca /lf/English/1_6_2_7.asp   (390 words)

  
 General john de chastelain
As the senior officer in the CF the CDS has, among others, the two fundamental duties of providing military advice to the Minister and Cabinet, and carrying out the command, control, and administration of the armed forces.
The CDS thus failed in his responsibility to the government and the CF by failing to ensure a full and proper analysis, especially in view of the changed nature of the mission.
Failure to ensure that all members of the Canadian Joint Force Somalia were adequately trained and tested in the Law of War or the Law of Armed Conflict including the four 1949 Geneva Conventions on the protection of victims of armed conflict.
www.dnd.ca /somalia/vol4/v4c27e.htm   (2820 words)

  
 Canadian Forces College
Born in Hamilton, Ontario, Brigadier-General Semianiw enrolled in the Canadian Forces (CF) in 1982.
From February until August 2005, he was responsible for CF operations in Afghanistan as the Commander Task Force Kabul.
Brigadier-General Semianiw is a graduate of the Canadian Forces College, the Canadian Forces Command and Staff Course, the Advanced Military Studies Course and the National Security Studies Course.
www.cfc.forces.gc.ca /Personnel/semianiw_e.html   (275 words)

  
 All AgitProp, all the Time...: Right...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-26)
It is obvious that we could never raise enough land forces to hold on to all of our territory, so we need to focus on assets that can control (or at minimum survey and reconnoitre) large areas of territory with a minimum of manpower.
Nuclear subs such as the Virginia-class SSN will have the capability to engage land targets while submerged, launch and recover special forces while submerged, be capable of extended under-ice operations, and have the speed and endurance to keep up with any surface action group while submerged.
At a cargo weight of 38,000 pounds the landing fuel is 7,000 pounds, for 40,000 pounds of cargo it increases to 12,000 pounds, and 42,000 pounds of cargo requires 16,000 pounds of landing fuel.
fim.ondragonswing.com /archives/005061.html   (5236 words)

  
 Defence Spending - CF Force Structure - Expeditionary Force - CASR - Canadian American Strategic Review
The politicians who control the purse strings want the Canadian Forces (CF) to be 'seen' in the trouble spots of the world.
Politicians and bureaucrats from Foreign Affairs, National Defence, and CIDA are leaning towards a rapidly deployable, expeditionary force that is 'light-weight', highly mobile, and self-contained.
But there can be no denying that the creation of the Northern Command has fundamentally changed the nature of future Canada – US maritime security ties.
www.sfu.ca /casr/fe-budget.htm   (1105 words)

  
 CFPSA :: Canadian Forces Personnel Support Agency - Corporate
Cpl Michael Dobson is the Land Force Command Official of the Year
At the heart of CF sports: Land Force Command Team of the Year, CFB Valcartier Slow-Pitch Team
Canadian Forces youth to participate in the 35th International Children's Games in Taipei August 31 to September 3, 2002.
cfpsa.com /en/archive   (1398 words)

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