In the 21st episode of Battle Rhythm, Steve and Stef discuss CDS Vance’s letter including Operations LASER, IMPACT and UNIFIER, along with a hold on recruiting for the CAF and what the US Military should be doing in the ‘War on COVID’. Our Feature Interview this week is with Brigadier-General Greg Smith, [30:50] in Mons, Belgium. Mentioned: Aisha Ahmad’s Why You Should Ignore All That Coronavirus-Inspired Productivity Pressure; Devil's Brigade; Hyena Road; Strategic Strikes Back; World War Z

Brigadier-General Greg Smith in Mons, Belgium.

Brigadier-General Greg Smith was born in Oshawa, Ontario and graduated from the Collège militaire royal de St-Jean (CMR) in 1993. He has served in each of the battalions of the Royal Canadian Regiment (The RCR) including commanding a mechanized rifle platoon and Mortar Platoon in 1 RCR, a mechanized company second-in-command in 2 RCR and the Parachute Company Commander in 3 RCR. He was Commanding Officer of the Canadian Special Operations Regiment, Commandant of the Canadian Army Command and Staff College, and Director of the Royal Canadian Infantry Corps. Brigadier-General Smith's staff appointments include serving at the Infantry School, the Army Headquarters on three separate occasions as the ADC CLS, the G33 Current Operations and the G3, in the Canadian Special Operations Forces Command, and as Chief of Staff of the Defence Renewal Team (DRT). Brigadier-General Smith's operational deployments include Operation HARMONY in Croatia in 1994-95 as a platoon commander, Operation ATHENA in Kabul in 2003-04 as Battalion Group Operations Officer (S3), in Kandahar in 2009-10 as a Task Force Commander and in Kabul on Operation ATTENTION in 2012 as the Deputy Commander. He is a graduate of the Transitional Command and Staff Course at the Canadian Army Command and Staff College, the Joint Command and Staff Program at the Canadian Forces College (CFC) Toronto and also the National Security Programme at CFC Toronto. Brigadier-General Smith possesses a Bachelor of Arts in Military and Strategic Studies (Honours) from CMR and three Masters of Arts in War Studies, Defence Studies and Public Administration through the Royal Military College of Canada (RMCC) and the University of New Brunswick.