Defence Team News | Training for excellence at MAPLE RESOLVE 2025
Video / July 17, 2025
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Major Daniel O’Connor
G3, Operations Officer - Multinational Brigade Latvia
We don't hope here. We train so that we don't have to hope for anything.
The objective of MAPLE RESOLVE 2025 is to confirm the competency and capability of subunit organizations to conduct live fire attacks or live fire defensive operations.
What will come out of MAPLE RESOLVE 2025 is a number of teams at echelon that will be able to conduct Canada's mission in Latvia, which is a deterrence mission.
The advice I give to first time participants in MAPLE RESOLVE is: shoot, move, communicate. And if you don't do that well, do it again.