Recent content by Eaglelord17

Will congress give him the ability to do that? Thats the fun part about starting a war which your own country isn’t necessarily even for, you get your cards limited.

Yeah good in theory, corporate welfare says differently in practice. They intentionally let things get to a bad point (i.e. not spending on maintenance/expansion, rather taking that money and spending on themselves), at which point the government steps in and pays for it because it is a...

Considering the States is currently upgrading their side of the locks and we want to open up the ring of fire, yes that is nation building. There is demand, if we choose to be a part of it is the question. I am also a big proponent of railways, across the whole country. The amount we spend on...

We should as it is clear the reason for the initial building of those locks still exists. We created the Canadian side locks because the Americans denied us transit of our ships with troops on them to go fight the Northwest Rebellion so they had to completely disembark with all the stores and...

I am thinking of where kit is stored and access to said equipment as well as the travelling to train part. Take 49th field. Makes sense currently because of Grayling, if they had to drive to Pet for every gun ex I doubt the unit would be remotely viable (7+hour drive one way, which for a...

Does it still make sense to have some of the Arty units where they are, or should they reroll units closer to the main bases to ‘arty’ and farther away units to something which is easier to do stand alone training?

Not to mention the international pressure by showing they aren’t actively losing/out of the fight. Hard to push for a crappy peace deal when the Ukrainians are pushing back.

Personally I don't like Ford and never have, way to corrupt for my liking. That being said the reason he has been so successful is the lack of any reasonable competition. Voter turnout reflects this, I didn't vote last provincial election, they all sucked as options to the point of not being...

Thats some good value right there. Considering Afghanistan was approximately 13 million per direct kill and Vietnam was 168-200k (1970 dollars) the West has a lot to learn from them. And that is facing off against a much inferior force, let alone a peer to peer or even dominate force.

People don’t appreciate the value of a van these days. Everyone wants a truck, then the first thing they do is put a tonneau cover on it basically turn it into a van with the seats folded down. Most the time the van has very similar holding capacities and weight restrictions until you start...

Colleges and universities interestingly enough have no formal standards for this and will ‘generally’ hire competent people from the field. The shops teacher part irks me. I would likely switch to being a shops teacher (red seal machinist, working on getting a red seal millwright ticket too...

I suspect that BMQ failure rates will go up as time progresses as less and less suitable candidates will be able to be drawn from the youth. Literacy is going down, the ‘Covid kids’ were absolutely failed educationally with lackluster online education (i.e. they didn’t learn anything, just...

Lots of American war criminals, very little motivation to hold any of them to account, both internally and externally.

100% agree on the CIC officers, no need for them to hold a commission. It is those insufferable cadets who think they know everything joining which cause the rift. Lots of cadets also get a poor idea of what the CAF is like due to how poorly run some cadet units are. They seem to think Full...