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Double that, at least. The Voltigeurs de Quebec Armoury project was $104 million, and the land didn’t need to be acquired.

I get the sense that this is being imposed on the PRes, rather than being actively sought out. The inclusion in 2nd/Defence of Canada Division of things like the DOMOPS IRU role and the Canadian Rangers aren’t what the ‘Militia Myth’ crowd traditionally loves — but they are things that the Reg...

Those UK battalions were originallly envisioned as battlefield casualty replacement pools — the initial planning estimates of casualties for Granby/Deaert Storm were extremely high. In the end they turned out to be useful for POW handling, but that wasn’t their primary intended role. And using...

That’s already happened for the Royal Rifles of Canada. The Voltigeurs de Quebec have claimed the Royal Rifles battle honours of Hong Kong and South East Asia 1941 since 2019. The Voltigeurs spent WW2 as a home defence unit.

That level of readiness implies every 3rd Christmas is spent in close proximity to the garrison. You’re not maintaining 7 days NTM if half the battalion is on leave a continent away.

When the dust settles, 1 Bde will have 4 manoeuvre battalions (2 heavy cav, 2 LAV inf), and 2 and 5 Bdes will each have 3 (1 medium cav, 2 LAV inf). I have a problem with that — it has knock on effects for the structure of the supporting elements — svc bn, engineers, etc will have to look...

Canadian Airborne Regiment cap badges, half the troops without parachute wings, and ankle boots not jump boots. 3 Mech Cdo was certainly an interesting chapter in the history of the Canadian infantry. The Airborne Regiment badge was a sort of flag of convenience allowing both RCR and PPCLI...

We used to have something like that. The current Supp Res was formed by the amalgamation of the Supplementary Holding Reserve and the Supplementary Ready Reserve. Back as recently as the 90’s, the SRR was funded for one day’s pay per year, theoretically so the member would do an annual DAG.

We have absolutely bought armoured vehicles from sources other than GM Diesel/GDLS since 1976. Leopard 1, Leopard 2, TAPV come to mind.

Authorities question — why the Div Comd? QR&O 101.09 seems to state authority is Army Commander for CO, Brigade Commander for RSM. Or am I looking in the wrong place?

The elephant in the room for a Canadian manoeuvre division in battle is that when it is needed the bulk of one of its brigades will already be deployed to Latvia, and already assigned to a NATO Multinational Division. As such, a Canadian Division has a number of not-ideal options Fight with...

One capability that goes against small and manoeuvrable divisions is aviation. A US Cold War division had something like 70 helicopters. Nowadays a US division operates over a 100 helicopters, plus 12 or so MQ-1 Grey Eagles that need to operate from a runway. Does the Division need that many...

You can add maritime MTI to that list. Persistent MTI tracking every surface ship, everywhere, regardless of emissions state, is a huge game changer for anti-surface warfare. It makes task groups, especially small ones, exceptionally vulnerable to standoff weapons.

If the Army is taking back the 1st Division name, then what’s the CJOC formation headquarters in Kingston called? Is it going back to Canadian Forces Joint Headquarters? Or is the Canadian Army taking on the Deployable JTF/NCE task along with the name?

There’s some good information in that document that wasn’t emphasized in the panicky langauge of the media releases. Thanks for that, The Bread Guy. One thing that jumps out at me is the apparent reason for why the most dramatic (and headline grabbing) issues occurred in Francophone BMOQ...