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Actually, I have always favoured LeoII(A5-A6?) over the MGS.  We don't have the ability to air deploy the MGS, so that issue is a non-issue for us.  The Americans can use the MGS because they have the M1 to do the tank destroying for them, and they have heavy tactical air helicopter and...

One of the big problems I have with the LAV III/MGS/TUA/MMEV or ADATS "system of systems" is that I have never seen us deployed in such depth outside of Wainwright or Gagetown.  Relying on a doctrine that requires four vehicles to provide a survivable force, when we do not deploy all of them...

I dug up an old news story that cuts to the heart of the matter. http://edition.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/asiapcf/central/03/12/afghan.buddha.02/     When the radical Islamic Taliban ran Afghanistan, they used their power to root out and destroy the sacred images of the Buddhists that had been the...

    You are quite right, the Bards and Skalds could make or break a King, as your reputation was important in securing the loyalty of your fighting men, and the pre-Christian European kings were not absolute, removable by the the people that they served, via the Althing or Celtic equivalent. ...

    When I was on my 052 QL1,  doing pole climbing our NCO was a square little francophone with an accent think enough to stop a .50 cal and a sarcastic streak.  When one of us would forget to use our safety belt he would yell up at us:     "Jesus was a lineman eh?  If you don' do up that...

The First Amendment in the United States is the return of a very old and very healthy custom.  Amongst the ancient Celts and Norse, the Bards or Skalds had immunity, so that they would be free to speak the truth.  If a King or Chieftains actions were foolish, he feared the Bard or Skalds mockery...

Keep the faith brother!  If you have to kill time doing some college, sign up in your local communication reserve regiment, as they are usually short on linemen.  Get your 052 in reserve, pick up some experience, and any other courses you can get.  Sign up for every damn course you can get, and...

When the decision came down from on high that the Human Rights Act would apply to soldiers we were on parade right after the subject came up in the mess, and one of our Mcpl felt compelled to comment on it to the new smarta$$ no-hook Pte's.     "Some of you a$$wipes have heard about all the...

    The Coast Guard does have a role in dealing with those vessles that have entered Canadian waters illegally, or are opperating in violation of Canadian and international law reguarding safe maritime opperations.  So the Coast Guard doesn't arrest anyone, ordering the vessle to heave to, and...

Now that we have a govt that admits that we need guns, perhaps they will not shy from getting us ones that we can actually use.  The MGS needs a low recoil system to be useful for us, pretending that you can strap a Leo I 105 to the top of a LAV III and expecting it to fire effectively would be...

Kirkhill wrote: Here's a question, logical absurdity time - supposing that reaction time for fire support was reduced to zero,  would a soldier need to carry a weapon?  As I said this pushes the bounds of the absurd but suppose that when confronted with an enemy force (1 or 1000 it makes no...

The biggest change I would like to see is not equipment, but doctrine.  Right now when you need fire support, you have to go a long way up the chain to get it.  If you want a position suppressed, then having a section leader being able to call and direct  105mm or mortar fire on the target works...

Why bother?  If they decided to kill everyone who spoke out against them they would establish a new agency to hunt us down, staff it with Liberal supporters, channel $2.6 Billion into it, and we all know the results.  Half a billion back into Liberal party coffers, four fired heads of the...

My concern with the growing UAV use has little to do with their unquestioned utility in the current low intensity conflicts that we are fighting.  My question is, what happens when we again face an opponent who possesses significant EW resources.  Will drone control units, while beyond FEBA LOS...

    Given the new generation of non LOS missles that can be targeted after launch, a drone of this type could be used to target fire from manned vehicles tucked beyond LOS from the enemy.  I don't see it replacing recce elements in scouting, but I do see it standing fire to target for our...

      Relax.  Religious or idelogical extremists are self limiting.  If any of them enjoy any success they inevitably scism, and in the resultant fratricidal bloodbath makes them both more visable and more vulnerable to counterinsurgency actions.  Al Quaida and other low level orginizations are...

Welcome to BC, where your local Liberal Candidate is either a "parachute candidate" from outside the riding (like ours in Maple Ridge/Mission), or bribed from another party (like Ujel Dosanj, ex NDP Premier).  The desperation to find anyone to run for the Liberals could get a bag lady the...

    On the subject of political systems in fiction, check out Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle's Oath of Fealty (Pocket Books 1981).  It is no coincidence it is dedicated to Heinlein.  The book takes a utopian society based on an Arcology inside Los Angeles, and shows how it drifted into nothing...

    Actually I agreed with much of the social premise behind Starship Troopers and have been extolling its virtues to all who will listen for decades.  That the system eventually failed means little.  Every system involving humans can and will be corrupted by said humans.  The societies that I...

      This system has been used before.  The early Roman Republic, the early Greek democracies, the Germanic tribes, and later Swiss Cantons.  In each case, the right to vote was places solely in the hands of those free armed men who accepted the responsibilities to serve their people under...