Recent content by Fabius

If Canada is mobilizing, a lot of the large departments and agencies that have the bulk of the Public servants are going to be very involved already. Taking public servants from CBSA, RCMP, DND, Fisheries and Oceans, Corrections Canada etc to fill out CAF seems like it will be robbing Peter to...

There’s reporting out that DND and the CAF tiger team is taking a literal Whole of Government approach with a COA of enrolling volunteers from the public service into the CAF Supplementary Reserve… Interesting option, can’t say I think much of that choice but it a choice. If it comes to pass I...

Interesting. I guess that Colt Canada is doing the Danish contract with existing equipment. This matches with my understanding of the rather slow C6 delivery schedule being driven primarily by manufacturing capacity.

Interestingly on the topic of high readiness forces, CANSOFCOM is frustrated by being the GoCs first answer to developing problems, the Army is frustrated by CANSOFCOM being the first response. Yet the Army seems unable to breakthrough certain policy challenges that inhibit NTM and NTE. Items...

Yeah having seen that I am not going to expect great things. Another L1 of rerorganized existing staff directorates is likely a bandaid solution at best. Maybe I will be wrong.

In this entire conversation there is one question in my mind, I’m curious about if the CA 4-5 years ago as it was building this GRFT ORBAT and the NTM ideas actually discussed this with the RCAF. From my knowledge of the process it was a CA only process inside the CA HQ, the Div HQs and the 3rd...

Found this while trying to look up what the 1980 course covered. THE EVOLUTION OF CANADIAN FORCES STAFF EDUCATION AND OPERATING IN A POST-COLD WAR WORLD Seems that the 1980s course morphed into the current JCSP. ALPs is now the Army’s effort to address supposed JCSP deficiencies in the Land...

My understanding is that’s it’s only for a 12-24 month period. Given the Army career mgmt and the post JCSP nature of the nominations I would be surprised if the graduates are employed in a directly related position past 36 months. I would also offer that it’s likely not great odds that they...

That’s one reason I think the post JSCP selection is perhaps an issue. The concepts aren’t necessarily Bde level but employing them at that level does two things in my mind; It allows for the Div and Corps plans to be better understood at the Bde level. It allows for personnel to gain...

As the Army attempts to upscale itself from Battalions and Battle Group to Brigades and Divisions, the Army is introducing a new course. The Advanced Land Power Studies - ALPs for short. This is supposed to take its origin from the US Army’s Advanced Military Studies Program better know by...

CANSOFCOM is not headquartered out of Suffield. In general terms if you don’t want to advertise what units your personal are actually employed at you can just publicly state they all work for the HQ. Various CANSOF units have LOs across the country in various positions. I expect Suffield is...

How about no buyback period and we just allow all Canadian citizens to own their property that they became licensed to own. There was nothing wrong with the general system in 2015. The named prohibition of certain firearms, magazine restrictions, and range only restrictions were really the...

There is a line between breaking the very very strong institutional inertia in the Army and breaking the Army by having everything in motion with no foot on the ground. I suspect we are going to make that line very fine and then try to walk it.

The limited funding leads me to think they are hoping secretly for mass non compliance and/or people to just Dewat their guns on their own. That way the government doesn’t have to spend money and can just pretend this doesn’t exist.

The current and historical Liberal stance on gun control guarantees that the Liberal Party of Canada will never garner a vote from myself. I could like every single other aspect of the LPC platform but the LPC gun control policy is a poison pill I am unwilling to swallow. If the LPC adopted the...