Inflection Point 2025: Charting the Future of the Canadian Army

Westmount, Quebec – 25 September 2025: The Canadian Army has released Inflection Point 2025: Modernization of the Canadian Army, a bold new strategy that recognizes a simple truth: the Army we have today is not the Army we need for tomorrow.

The plan marks a generational shift, aiming to restructure, equip, train, and sustain our land forces for an unpredictable world. After years of focusing on peace support and counter-insurgency missions, the Army is now prioritizing readiness for Major Combat Operations (MCO)—large-scale, high-intensity conflicts against peer adversaries.

The strategy is frank about current gaps: aging tanks and artillery, understaffed infantry battalions, limited air defence, and a sustainment system not ready for prolonged operations. It also highlights the inconsistent integration of the Army Reserve (ARes), which often trains with minimal equipment and struggles with readiness that fluctuates by season.

To address this, Inflection Point 2025 sets clear directions:

• Tailored Reserve Training: Moving away from one-size-fits-all standards to create unique tactics, training, and even new trades that fit Reserve realities.

• Mobilization Frameworks: Building predictable pathways for rapidly scaling the ARes in crisis, ensuring the Army can generate depth and resilience when it counts.

• Self-Sufficiency: Developing Reserve capacity to train, operate, and sustain itself, rather than relying solely on Regular Force support.

• Domestic Operations: Grouping the Army Reserves and Canadian Rangers into a dedicated division focused on domestic security, Arctic presence, and mobilization.

Alongside these Reserve reforms, key modernization projects include digital transformation, long-range rocket artillery, Arctic mobility platforms, and next-generation soldier systems.

Lieutenant-General M.C. Wright, Commander of the Canadian Army, underscored the urgency: “The modernized Canadian Army will defend Canada – at home and abroad. The inflection point is now.”