Traduction de «Cours de tactique pour jeunes officiers » (Français → Anglais) :

young officer tactics course

We are just finishing the tail end of the reorientation because the process, as you can imagine with young officers who are only available in the summer because during the year they are at Royal Military College or they are in university. So it takes us a two-year cycle to work through on their training.

The reason was that inferior leaders over the years tended to select and promote junior officers who most closely resembled them, resulting in a gradual erosion of quality at the top of the system, regardless of the quality of men and women entering the system at the lower levels.

This will include language skills and staff training, courses for tactical officers, et cetera.

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