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Where has it come from? I find myself asking this question again and again.     Where has this expectation that national reconstruction can be done inside of a year, and produce a tiny little clone of Canada with its own little copy of our Charter, its own little CBC, its own little...

What the chaplains provide no civilian employer provides. There are not really a lot of civvie professions that deal in death, that expect to lose coworkers on a regular basis and still keep on with the job, whose families learn to fear the sight of a black staff car entering the PMQ's when all...

The ecumenical nature of the ceremonies, the ramp ceremonies, the blessing of the colours, the Remembrance itself, is designed to serve a purpose.  That purpose is to honour both those who serve, and those who have fallen, to provide comfort and support.  There are those that say these...

+1 Trinity. I knew the Padres could get my point across better.

Nothing the military does has a religious component........ No, I can't agree to that one. There is no more sacred thing than to give your life for another, there can be no greater sacrament than the offer of your own life in defence of your comrades, your colours and your country.  The reason...

The question was asked earlier of one of the Christian posters how they would feel being asked to participate in a Muslim ceremony.  Well that's a bit of a non issue.  I remember having to keep our sleeves down so as not to offend the Muslim population, getting a longer handout on local does and...

Knowing the other persons answer is seldom helpful.  Hearing how the other person sees the question is the part that teaches you something.  I do not think this thread should be locked unless it degenerates into an exchange of insults.  I think the debate needs to be had, because I think that...

The question was asked: "why try to employ armour at all in Afghanistan? Surely we can learn from other wars" Well, we not only learn the lessons of other wars (its called doctrine ladies and gentlemen), but we learn the lessons of this one. Our commanders on the ground in Afghanistan took a...

Information Warfare      Consider the name.  Information warfare, not spin doctoring.  Our enemies do not use fact, they attempt to use emotion.  The sound byte, the editiorial, the opinion poll are the weapons of those who would shape Canadian political will and foreign policy for their own...

      To respond to the eternal whining of the left wing; we hand our prisoners over to the Afghan authorities because it is Afghanistan.  We are there to help and support the Afghan government in restoring the safety, security, and stability of the Afghan people; we are not there to take over. ...

I am a Heathen, and while my faith and that practiced by the Padres have almost no similarities whatsoever, when they are sanctifying the colours that my brethren and I will fight, and perhaps even die under, they are sanctifiying it to my gods as well as their own.  Out of respect for the...

Hold back the howls of derisive laughter ladies and gentlemen, In the mid nineties, when I was completing me degree, and looking seriously at getting out of the Reserves and into the RegForce, I was being recruited at CFRC Sinclair.  I went through the usual hoops and checks and interviews...

I never said the US supported Argentina's keeping the Falklands.  The US and Canada both cravenly decided that this was not a NATO matter, and let the UK stand alone.  The US applied pressure to both parties to settle the dispute diplomatically.  I was ashamed of both North American governments...

Yes we are all overcommitted right now, but the Falklands conflict could never possibly be about force levels, but force projection.  To project force to the tip of South America using only its diminishing heavy lift and sea lift assets, and protected only by its naval aviation assets placed a...

    At the time of the last Falkland conflict, the US was busy sternly disapproving of the UK flexing its military muscles on any continent that had "America' in it, and Canada was way too peacable to provide support for any military actions by NATO allies that might involve (gasp) gunplay. ...

Ok, that goes with the Santa Norad site for my girls this Christmas.  They do have the occasional logistics question about the occasion.  Its good to have solid numbers when you answer.

Rudolf, with armour: Straty the big nosed Leopard Straty the big nosed Leopard, had a 105mm nose, and if he ever fired, you would even say it glowed. All of the other armour, used to laugh and call him names. 'cause never would the civvies let him join in any Afghan games. Then one foggy...

Nicely done.  At this rate, we'll have a whole Afghan carol book :)

There is no reason good enough to let one escape.  One can give word of the insurgents fate just fine lead away in irons to await trial, and followed by a flat-deck displaying the weapons born by the slain.  Similar to the old Roman triumphs, and with a similar message.

The recruiters for these terrorist butt monkeys are always talking about their ability to hit and fade, how all our conventional might is nothing compared to their faith, ruthlessness, and cleverness.  Right now that conventional might is grinding slowly and inexorably as a glacier over a...