New chief of staff Opata wants to reinforce combat capabilities

Ales Opata, the new chief of staff of the Czech military, who takes up the post on Wednesday, wants to reinforce the fighting capabilities of the infantry, in particular through the modernisation and rearming of the 7th mechanised brigade, he told CTK. Specifically, the 43rd parachute battalion should be expanded within the coming years to a regiment. At the same time, a command of cyber and informational operations and a logistics support battalion should be established in Rakovnik, central Bohemia, he said.