Canadian Armed Forces

Lessons from the CAF Primary Reserve: How Canadian-German Cooperation can Improve Germany’s Reserve System

While Germany struggles with a political divide over reintroducing conscription, Canada offers a viable model of part-time service which may be able to help. In this article, Robert Malloy explores how, as Germany debates how to solve personnel shortages in its armed forces, the Bundeswehr may benefit in learning from the CAF-Reserve model. His article argues Canada has an opportunity to market its reserve model to European allies, and promote itself as an institutional knowledge broker at a time of military revival on the European continent.