Strategic Capability Analysis for CANSOFCOM

To enhance Canada Special Operations Forces Command competitive advantage in deterring and defeating adversaries as well as collaborating with allies, a strategic capability assessment was conducted to identify current and future capability gaps using concepts from the forecasted future operating environment. Military capability implications are identified and assessed using a wargame-based survey approach across a range of units within the Command. Data collected included ordinal data as well as supplementary comments.Ordinal data is analyzed using the Likert package, with an emphasis on the visualization of the data using stacked bar plots. Comment data is evaluated using R text mining packages with some emphasis on preprocessing steps to simplify text mining tasks. Results are used as a foundation for implementing constructive institutional change across the Command.