Recent content by KevinB

The irony of Jody Thomas saying this case asks lots of questions 👀

That isn’t at all what I said. Several outstanding GOFO’s have quit from it. I do not think he has a clue at all in how to deal with this. His whole transactional relationships fail when you run into either a Putin, or the current Iranian government. Not everyone can be bought off with...

I tend to doubt that, mainly as due to the systemic purging of our intelligence and military. It has been reported again and again that a lot of actual intelligence is gutted before it arrives to be viewed by POTUS or the SecDef (until Department of War gets accreditation by Congress it is...

Keep in mind those reports are OS. While some Classified information makes it into the higher level reports and is then scrubbed, No Special Access Programs or Intelligence makes it into them. So there can be multiple ‘truths’ depending on what one has access to.

One direct neighbor

Europe is a bad example as the territory is so much smaller, and population density dramatically different. The neighbors are also a little more diverse. From EU friends to folks like Russia and Belarus. You got one neighbor, and we have 10x the population than you with slightly smaller...

Or until you use a bigger nastier bomb. Russia found using incendiary and fuel air explosives against civilian centers worked well on the Chechens. The world did nothing. The world did nothing when the Russians did it in the Ukraine. Someone else will probably start doing it.

Well that would be my guess. I have no idea, it seems that while the GoC had a duty wrt to the security clearance - the position wasn’t GoC related and that she was a private citizen, so while entitled to standard consular services, but no legal assistance that I can tell. @brihard more your...

Not really. No Gov is going to make an effort for a burned asset. Maybe a trade later - but they won’t be spending money nor anything that could link anything directly. Countries are a lot less scrupulous than organized crime in this respect.

The questions put to Boeing by Congress, included if they had the tooling to restart the C-17A, and if not what the financial implications were of A-C modifications. Baring any revolutionary designs, I don’t see Future Airlift taking off. Trying to replace the C-5M and C-17A with one...

Always interesting to see the perceptions and metrics used.

Minimum should be death.

Your ability to post things to topics with no relevance astounds me at times.

Biggest issue will be fitness and injury. - I say this as a 56yr old has been who is currently sitting with his right leg elevated due to an Achilles injury, and looking at fairly lengthy recovery period. The better overall fitness level you have going in will help prevent injury. It will...

42 isn’t too old. Especially in the reserves. I taught a PRes Basic many decades ago in Petawawa and there were two 50+ candidates on it.