.... Defense Research and Development Canada (DRDC) - Toronto has embarked on a research study towards optimizing how individual military personnel are prepared for operational deployment. Given the broad range of possible current and future mission activities, and the stresses that deployed personnel could encounter, it follows to pose the research question (RQ):
- Would a system for personal support based on a holistic (multi-disciplinary) approach to individual well-being, with or without integration with a managed readiness training system (or something comparable), improve readiness of soldiers to achieve operational effectiveness? In other words, it would be important to know if soldiers would be better prepared to deliver mission effectiveness if a whole-human approach (body, mind, and spirit) were institutionalized in operational doctrine, policy, and training and readiness procedures ....
