Recent content by Fabius

Fair enough in terms of public opinion. I’m of the thought though that the results of listening to public opinion are heavily weighted by the value system subscribed to. In the example of pandemic measures as you articulate above, the weight you would subscribe to locking everyone and...

What defines a “popular opinion” ? How do value systems interact with “popular opinion “? Edited to add: I don’t think the initial article and your depiction of a “value” are the same.

I would have thought the same prior to a 3rd Division Readiness Exercise several years back that determined that the only way we can load on rail is to road move to Wx. I was skeptical and to be honest remain so as you rightly point out Edmonton has sites, but the G4 Tn shops of the time were...

What are we defining as close to Edmonton, Wainwright? Wainwright has about 1000m of track and two ramps. In comparison Fort Johnson in the US has 3000m with 6 ramps. Both are used/were used to load a CMBG/BCT. One was highly efficient, one was not. If all your bases have integral airfields...

Thanks for this document! I am currently on Chapter 8 so these might not be true through out but so far I have seen a few Themes and some interesting thoughts ( not sure how else to describe them) Themes 1. Consistent Budget Challenges 2. No Joint Force - non cooperation (not...

From an integrated continental perspective what does Whitehorse offer that isn’t already covered by the Alaskan bases in Anchorage and Fairbanks? Assuming we wanted to go down that route, would not basing in Yellowknife, between the Alaskan bases and Thule (assuming the US put a force there)...

Assuming all the programs come to pass, there is an interesting opportunity for the RCAF to develop a model that sees them deploy and train to fight as an integrated Canadian Air task force with attendant national persistent ISR UAS, AEW&C, AAR and then fighters for both counter air missions...

Between the cartridge and weapons themselves, I am more interested in seeing how the XM 157 fire control system works out. Having a LPVO integrated with a LRF, ballistic calculator, with atmospheric sensors and multi function laser aiming device all in a shoulder fired package is an interesting...

https://www.armytimes.com/news/your-army/2024/04/17/new-rifle-automatic-rifle-and-optic-exceed-paratrooper-expectations/?utm_source=sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=army-dnr Seems the XM7, XM250 and XM157 fielding in the 101st is going well according to official sources. I wonder how...

Without spare parts available in the system to allow for maintenance it doesn’t matter what it’s good at or not. No matter what it is good for or not good for, if we can’t keep them serviceable with parts and tech hours it’s all kind of moot.

Last I saw I thought the Svc Bn was being called the MLU, Mutinational logistics unit. Is the FLG going to be the Cdn portion of the MLU?

Na, we’re good. Still have 20 plus years to get our stuff together! 🤨

There is a lot an interested PM and cabinet could do to improve the CAF and DND without having to actually spend more money. A lot of process and procedural stuff could be streamlined, restructuring, legislative changes could be implemented. All relatively cheap but not simple.

Notice that it says accelerate development? It does not say implement, deploy, adopt, migrate etc. What metric can be actually applied to track accelerate development? Why does it take 20 years to accelerate development for such a system? It’s maybe complex but it’s not bleeding edge...

SSE also discussed things. When SSE was released it planned for the FY 23/24 Budget to be 1.37% of GDP and for FY 24/25 to be 1.4% with our capital budget being 32.2%. Last year according to NATO our budget was 1.29%. According to the GoC numbers today our budget is around 1.33%, we have not...