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I am not going to speculate, other than to note that nothing very much will surprise me. A bit of a quick search found that General Boyle went from BGen to CDS in two-and-a-half years, and then resigned after about ten months in the chair. Admiral Anderson also had a short run as CDS.

I don't know about originality, but it is a good idea. It, however, has one drawback, and that is the limited direction of a flechette round, unless you are thinking about launching them in all directions. The number of flechettes, as opposed to splinters from a fragmentation round detonation...

For whatever this is worth, take a look at Strange Battleground, the official history of the Canadian Army in the Korean War. In 1950. when the composition of what became the Special Force was being debated, the CGS came down against a normal three year engagement because [paraphrasing here]...

No guts to try boat person.

We're not really going to be able to take what is commentary of an attack of "blimpishness" by a retired senior officer much farther. Apologies to whoever coined the appellation Colonel Blimp for those firmly stuck in the past. However, I still get a chuckle recalling a framed editorial...

As an aside, I was on a course in the RCSA in Shilo during the Cuban missile crisis. During our breaks we used to go outside the classroom to watch for nukes hitting Winnipeg. And in the case of the long range precision fires, ownership and command/control are not the same thing. Tube artillery...

In terms of "big picture" delivery, not so much. Changing the target location in the context we are discussing refers to at a minimum several kilometres and usually more.

As a geriatric mud gunner who has dabbled in the relationship between artillery and air since the Great War, the air power advocates have claimed that they should be allowed to select and destroy the most important targets, while the army is merely fighting the land battle. A major difference...

I'd like to see him try to sincere his way out of a winger, say a charge 4 instead of a charge 3, or maybe 100 mils in elevation.

Not least of their accomplishments after they arrived home was the baby boom, aka making up for lost time.

I hope you like it. I read it back when I was in high school and really enjoyed it. Forester was an excellent novelist, perhaps best remembered for the Hornblower series of novels.

Don't forget there was some very unfavourable press reports about Americans who entered Canada in order to transit to Alaska, and then were observed or apprehended in various locations not on a direct route to that state. Could there be a relationship, partial or not, here?

Here's another point of view, or at least an observation. The militarization was a result of the proliferation of automatic weapons in the hands of the bad guys, certainly in the US but also in Canada. In the days of the Bob Rae government in Ontario, there was considerable opposition to...

Back when the earth was cooling, I still had hair, and the Bobcat APC project was still alive, our infantry battalions were motorized, aka 13 Inf Bns, Mot. The vehicle used was the venerable Dodge M37 3/4 ton truck on a scale of 4 per platoon. I think something along its lines would provide be a...

My guesstimate was  a six-inch howitzer, but that is just that - a guess. Agreed lack of a boat tail, etc does not make it a base ejection round, and projectile design was pretty basic back then, like what came first, the fire hydrant or the artillery projectile?

From the little that I remember from our ammunition and equipment phase on our IG Course way back in 1967, aerodynamics often was a bit of an afterthought. Take a look at a few pictures of period heavy and siege artillery back then, and you may note some blunt-nosed rounds.

Dunno! The shape, especially the lack of a boat tail base suggests a carrier shell, but the resolution on my device does not let me determine if the round has a time fuze.* * Abbreviated gunner lesson No 1. If the contents of the round were designed to be expelled from the base of the round...

Agreed.

My two most memorable brushes with memorable aviation memories were: a. in public school down in the Niagara region in the pre-Korean War era, I was outside at recess when a Vampire fighter flew over our school at a fairly low altitude; and b. In Gagetown circa 1963 we were on a 3 CIBG...

D&B, you just jogged my memory. I was a spectator, and only got one side of the story, but here goes. Circa 1988-1989 the then MND ordered the forces to fix the reserve pay system so that personnel could be paid in a timely, and accurate, manner. Well, the system wrapped itself in the Financial...