Ex GLOBAL READY 26
Video / July 22, 2026
Transcript
Major John Miller: Hello, my name is Major John Miller. I'm the G5 at the Canadian Manoeuvre Training Center, where I was the lead planner for Global Ready 26, as well as Canada's portion of Aurora 26, in Sweden.
Major Jonny Nilsson: My name is Major Jonny Nilsson. I'm head of Ex-Con and have been OPR for this exercise, on Swedish part. Global Ready
Major John Miller: 26 is a new initiative in the Canadian Army and it serves two main functions. The first one is to demonstrate the Canadian Army's ability to deploy an infantry battalion, a high readiness infantry battalion with minimal notice. The second portion is related to integration and how we want to continue to demonstrate that Canada can deploy combat capable forces who can integrate with our multinational allies.
Major Jonny Nilsson: This is very important for Sweden. We are in the new, in NATO. And one of our biggest goals is, the host nation support. During the live Ex. We have, learned a lot from each other how we work and how, differently, and solve it.
Speaker 1: At a strategic level. We need to train together as allies because in an alliance of nations that do not fight alone, our credibility comes from our ability to work together.