Recent content by GK .Dundas

The Canadian solution to any tough problem. Form a committee and by the time you've figured out the make up of the committee. And set up it's structure and found a place to hold it meetings. Produced a list of potential employees and the possible witnesses. All this in the hopes that...

Defence of the nation is the responsibility of the Crown , not Parliament. Strictly speaking.

And hopefully a delivery system that doesn't involve pickup trucks except as support vehicles

Years ago I was talking to someone and he felt the minimum number of replenishment vessels was around six if we're being serious.

Just one, it's all we can afford .

Leather flight jackets

Certainly at Army. Ca anyway.

A lot of people in the 1930s who were considered to be part of the smartest people in room set. Many of them with the development of aircraft like the B17. Considered that a naval force would now be unable to approach a shore line without being detected and destroyed

As a heart attack.

What could possibly go wrong with this .

It does now.

Apparently Andrew McNaughton tried more then once tried to abolish the Navy at least once between the wars . Because aircraft made the Navy redundant.

Ahh, What the British really need to do is send their navy in to ....oops sorry forgot.

And what are the Russians trying with the new guy?

That's actually a good question .