Canada’s military faces a critical need to modernize its forces in order to meet new challenges. The Canadian Army’s Inflection Point 2025 plan is a bold, transformative effort designed to rapidly adapt to these evolving threats, focusing on upgrading capabilities like long-range precision strike, Arctic mobility, and advanced command systems. This strategic overhaul aims to ensure the Army is ready to defend Canada’s interests both at home and abroad, while navigating the complexities of recruitment, retention, and technological integration.
On this week’s episode of the Expert Series, LGen Michael Wright, Commander of the Canadian Army, discusses Inflection Point 2025 and the plan to tackle this critical juncture. He discusses the Army’s challenges concerning recruitment and retention, the importance of incorporating emerging technologies—such as artificial intelligence, uncrewed systems, and electronic warfare—into the Army’s operations, lessons learned from Ukraine and the necessity of testing new capabilities in real-world environments like Latvia, and the balance between domestic readiness and expeditionary capabilities, as well as the need for the Army to remain both agile and globally interoperable.
