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Somebody should offer to host a tea party on election day.

I agree that the unions are probably not going to win any friends over this issue. But they don't really need to. I think the unions have calculated that all they need to do is get the federal NDP to back them (which is very likely to happen), and they can force the Liberal government to back...

Mearsheimer is what the Soviets used to call a useful idiot. He took a very useful theory of international affairs (structural realism) and utterly corrupted it with an extremist view point. I've met the guy before; he is amusing to listen to, because he riles up an audience with outrageous...

"Hail Mary, full of grace...Hail Mary, full of grace..."

Most of the old Soviet jokes carry over nicely into modern times.

There is an old Russian joke that goes back at least to Soviet times: "What is the most permanent feature of our economy?" "Temporary shortages."

I would be interested to see who gets put in command.

Japanese tanks were suitable for infantry support against somebody with poor AT weapons, but that's about it. The Army probably felt they had what they needed to beat the Chinese and replacements weren't required. In theory, yes, but we certainly don't set ourselves up to do that.

Understood, I realize there is a difference. My broader point was that the Russians have always considered their artillery to be usable (if not the preferred weapon) in an anti-tank role. In fact, one of the reasons they locate their artillery within the Regt/Bde AO is that they believe Btys can...

The BTG isn't that much different from how the Regimental organizations were supposed to fight. The Regts are all combined arms organizations and it has been routine practice for the motorized rifle battalions to get tank company attachments for many years. There are some organizational...

I realize there is a both a survivor bias here, and also a disclosure one (neither side shows all of its footage). I try to emphasize that I'm speculating because we only have a very limited amount of information to work with. I have seen a few heavy bombardments but they are relatively rare...

The BTG concept was only partially implemented; many of their Div/Regt structures remained intact, and still do - the forces pushing on Kharkiv are mostly organized on Div/Regt lines. Even in the BTGs, they hadn't abandoned the idea of forming artillery groups using Bns pushed down from higher...

Regarding the craters, I have noticed that, but I think we are seeing the cumulative effects of many impacts over a long period of time, sort of like a WW1 no-man's land but not as bad. The pre-war Russian TTP for artillery was to engage with full Bns, and often multiple ones, whenever possible...

It means the barrel is 52 times longer than the bore is wide. So for 155mm, it's 155x52=8060mm, or just over 8 meters long. Generally, higher caliber implies higher muzzle velocity and longer range.

"Gunner, make that guy's face look like the one in that shitty drawing you did for me!"

What the Russians are doing in Ukraine doesn't really resemble their pre-war concept of how a war would be fought. They believed that wars would be very mobile with open fronts, and the dominant tactical action would be the meeting engagement. This hasn't materialized; what you see in Ukraine is...

What if we tell everyone that the N in SSN stands for "net zero?" I already have a few ideas for the briefing note: These new underwater patrol vessels will be Canada's first fully green nautical assets. They will patrol our northern waters without any carbon emissions. Furthermore, our...

It appears that RMC is having financial problems and can't fill vacant faculty positions. 'Difficult financial situation' could mean cuts at RMC in Kingston