Recent content by Edward Campbell

Thanks, Mods, for doing what I should have done when I began the post.

This is from the current edition of 'Foreign Affairs:' "For decades, the United States invested in a nuclear order built around nonproliferation, even as Cold War disarmament agreements such as the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty expired. Opposing proliferation among unreliable states and...

The CF can have, quickly, whatever cabinet decides it wants the CF to have - remember when we got Leopard 2 tanks and C-17s? There is nothing illegal or even difficult about sole-source, directed contracts. It is solely and simply a matter of political will.

I suspect there are several very good reasons why most allied SigInt services (which is a domain that operates from the very "front lines" to well past where the military is involved) want little or nothing to do with military intelligence.

Oh, my goodness ... But, OK, here are some thoughts about how I wish I had lived ... Be kind, it's not too hard, it doesn't hurt, it doesn't even take all that much effort ... Try to do what's "right" - right for you and right for others, too ... Be honest, especially in your dealings with...

I agree; I am approaching the end of my life, and while I can look back on several things about which I am happy and even proud (and a few about which I am not), my two sons and now my grandsons are the best thing that ever happened to my late wife and me, by far.

I agree with you that RAMD (Reliability, Availability, Maintainability & Durability) should be a fully developed section of every SOR, but, in my experience - very, very out of date - it was rarely even mentioned. The two exceptions were the CPF (RAdm Ed Healey wrote the SOR) and the CF-18 (BGen...

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We need to remember that this is Canada's overall political alignment:

Canada has not awarded a VC since the 2nd World War. Every other country that has the VC has awarded them several times. I think that the problem starts and ends within Canada's military bureaucracy - Canadian Forces colonels, commodores, generals and admirals. I believe ( no proof) that there...

Great, and I have a candidate in Ottawa Centre

Johnny Stubbs was a hellluva sailor - much admired by his colleagues for his leadership and his seamanship. It's a pity that Canada has pushed aside heroes and leaders like Murray and Stubbs.

Québec has enough seats to decide if a party wins a majority or minority.

I'm very, very old, but: consistent life-cycle-costing and 'management' ( and the word consistent - across gov't, not just within the military - matters Hugely) is the ONLY sensible way to plan. Things like 'bathtub curves are very real and everyone needs to understand them and plan for them.

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