There's a price to pay for being unready for war. Will Canada have to pay it again?

Canada's pattern, said outgoing chief of the defence staff Gen. Wayne Eyre, is to go into every war unprepared and underequipped. That pattern has killed Canadian soldiers in the past. Can it be turned around?

There's a price to pay for being unready for war. Will Canada have to pay it again?
Armed soldiers walk down a narrow passageway between earth walls.

Canada's pattern, said outgoing chief of the defence staff Gen. Wayne Eyre, is to go into every war unprepared and underequipped. That pattern has killed Canadian soldiers in the past. Can it be turned around?