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This accurately identifies why no country is in any hurry to rescue Trump from the consequences of his war. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/03/trump-iran-war-allies/686423/?gift=hVZeG3M9DnxL4CekrWGK37EI_xIk0LIeqOBJDYUPZxw&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share

“March Madness” is more of a tactical level phenomenon. ADM(Mat) and ADM(IE) are not agile enough to rush a big expenditure within a single month. But units that failed to over program and held a CO’s funding reserve until too late in the year are often more able to surge a bunch of last minute...

This needs to be the line from Europe and NATO … which I guess means Europe & Canada. https://www.politico.eu/article/europe-help-donald-trump-iran-war-ukraine-finland-alexander-stubb/

Whacking the generals did not end insurgency wars, but this should have a bit of impact against a conventional armed forces.

After more than 65 years, any appearance of American “toothlessness” is not going to be influenced by Trump starting a war of conquest or otherwise subjugating a neighbour. Such a thing would only reinforce other negative visions (expansionist, colonialist, warmonger, unstable).

Someone wants the glory of taking the country. https://apnews.com/video/trump-says-he-thinks-hell-have-the-honor-of-taking-cuba-a07a717455764aa5b1a405e7ddadc151

It's not like the current administration is concerned about causing chaos. But, it's not great for Canada if that administration calculates its net exports through inclusion of Canadian assets as though they were American.

Because they looked at North American data and thought they have become a net exporter based on Canada’s production?

I knew a US DFAC in Afghanistan that alternated between king crab & lobster on Fridays.

Okay, so we’ve established that you are not familiar with military training and readiness? Termium has CAF using “validation” as described in this thread since 1990, and “certification” as described in this thread aince 2014.

Language evolves… particularly jargon. For as long as I remember, we have validated training (courses themselves) and this jargon of the TDO world evolved to encompass validating content & structure of large cyclical collective training events. When we were in Afghanistan, I typically heard...

It's got its own Wikipedia page now: Shield of the Americas - Wikipedia ... along with another one about the "Donroe Doctrine": Donroe Doctrine - Wikipedia

This is quite the tale in three posts. https://www.wsj.com/world/russia-secretly-sharing-location-of-u-s-targets-with-iran-u-s-officials-say-127d4f1a?mod=e2tw https://apnews.com/article/treasury-india-russia-oil-iran-war-c29383f5ceb25e768b1ad4095807dd6e

The fact military or former military members are debating whether sinking a warship without providing a opportunity to surrender is an acceptable thing, should tell you much about how poorly CAF has trained LOAC and military ethics … and now there are potentially a lot of ignorant people in...