Recent content by McG

That is well & good. I listened to a Chief of Land Staff bemoan the number of PYs locked into anti-armour platoons and howitzer batteries when he did not need those to staff rotations through what was Yugoslavia. Your COs may have been espousing what the institution officially said to itself...

I wonder if things will become a little more uniform with a domestic focused division overseeing all CA responses.

Canada making a strong contribution for freedom & democracy according to these numbers.

Also Nyala, RG-31, Cougar MRAP, Buffalo, Husky, and the TLAV upgrade.

I have not seen padres doing prayer at any event since they were previously told to stop. But I have seen units task junior officers or master corporals to deliver corps/regimental prayers that the padres no longer do. So apparently it was necessary for additional direction to clarify the...

I am not recommending anything. I am stating that lines of effort taken to date have not been decisive, and that the continued application of long range fires is not going to result in anything decisive. Anyone saying that it is now time for the US to deal with Iran decisively is either...

None of that is decisive. I think decisive is boots on mainland ground, not bluster of greater consequences followed by the same level of force as what came before. Even the threat of ground invasion can be a pressure. But the US public narrative has signalled they won’t go to the effort of...

No. I am saying the majority of Albertans should not be restrained from holding accountable the people who rode a political party like a Trojan Horse to force an unpopular separation referendum simply because you feel non-Albertans doing similar would feed alienation. Don't tell Albertans that...

Who is "we" coming from a guy with "Halifax" in his moniker, and why do you feel that non-separatist Albertans need to accord themselves with your vision of "we"?

The polls say Albertans already know why choosing Canada is the right choice. Are you proposing that the loudest Karen deserves a reward? That society should focus its efforts on appeasing the loudest minorities over addressing concerns of the majority? Albertans don't need to pander to this...

I think it is a stretch to say our societal want for single detached housing is important for family development. We don't want to live in apartments or row houses, but we are not being honest with ourselves if we start espousing that the detached home is some necessity (or near necessity) for...

There was already a coalition that assembled against this. Countries that will not follow the US adventurism into Iran may still be willing to resume/support operations against the Houthis.

One Conservative’s take:

He's not a rational actor. He is a self-aggrandizing bully who finds positive reinforcement in populist rage baiting and has a hate on for Canada. If it wasn't smoke, he would have found some other reason to bluster and revisit his global trade war upon us. There is certainly no good reason to...

Call it a Canadian Expeditionary Force? It might even be a joint organization at times that we find ourselves outside of a larger coalition or conducting operations other than full warfighting.