“NATO wants more Canada, but needs more Germany,” Boudreau wrote. “The German (general) has been a visionary officer as military head, publicly leading and actively communicating the charge for the swift modernization and recapitalization of their armed services. The media-shy Canadian CDS was the accidental beneficiary of a change of government that turned a firehose of $$$ at Defence, forcing change on an institution increasingly more closed and opaque than open and transparent.”
