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WTF?? So, it's costing us $5bn for the government to avoid making a decision? What a shambles! Australia made the decision to acquire Super Hornets to bridge JSF - but that was 9 years ago. We know what the answer is, just buy the damned ac.  :facepalm: EH-101 clusterf*ck redux.

You know, it took about 25 years but I finally understood something a fellow band member mentioned to me in the early 1980s. He was a Logistics Captain based at Wolseley Bks London and had been commissioned from the ranks through RMC. He mentioned that he enjoyed going to university but felt the...

Is the trial on going? Nothing on the web about this and the hearing was supposed to start last July.

I think the answer is 650 Canadian service personnel deployed on a UN Peacekeeping mission.  The government/DND is now trying to formulate the question.  Nothing against the Liberals, per se, just that they are pulling defence and security policy out of their arse...  :facepalm:

Good call.  George Osborne suggested corporation tax cuts last spring after the vote.  I recall the EU wasn't particularly pleased.  But, push comes to shove, if the EU wants to apply revenge over common interest, corporation tax cuts are fair game.

There is a reasonably articulate and thoughtful article in the Globe on comments made by VAdm Bruce Donaldson concerning procurement but also, more importantly, public perception of defence spending. There is no end of bollocks spoken on defence matters in the media (particularly by those who...

Indeed. Or lack thereof.

So, air power, amongst other effects, is making a discernible contribution after all, as reported in the BBC. "Up to $800m (£550m) in cash held by so-called Islamic State (IS) has been destroyed in air strikes, a US military official says."  :jet...

How long before we hear that old chestnut of "smaller but more capable force.." It is pretty well scripted for politicians, but the logical end state is that the smallest force is the most capable?

ER Campbell: thanks for the top tip!

Aye, I admit it, I accidentally read the Toronto Red Star. Gotta stop it, not good at all for my blood pressure.  Anyhow, I think Canadian journalism has sunk to a new low...or has it? It seems Mt Salutin would like Canada to revert to Year 0; no kultur, no history, no politics that aren't...

Aye, well. I must have the memory of a goldfish, but whenever I see the headline of his latest article listed on SOMNIA I click on it in the hope of reading some reasonably deep geopolitical analysis of some troubled corner of the world. And of course, it turns out to be some schimfing spiel...

Sorry, obviously not a frequent flyer here...I shall avoiding mentioning HWSNBN again.

He used to be good commenting on low level issues affecting the CF, but since he got into army flapping moralising on international affairs, Scott Taylor seems to have lost the plot. Mate, take off your tinfoil hat and stick to writing about comfy fitting boots or regimental history and leave...

To put it bluntly, Trudeau Jr was elected because he was not Stephen Harper.  Full stop.  If there were any policy issues of substance on which the Liberals were elected, I seemed to miss them.  However, the good news is that 100 days into the new government, just about all the changes he wanted...

"...the 2A88 152 mm gun has a range of up to 70 kilometres using precision-guided rounds..." Well lets face it, getting the range is only as good as your target acquisition.

In 'While Canada Slept' (2003) Andrew Cohen quoted then Foreign Affairs Minister John Manley as saying, "You can't just sit at the G8 table and then, when the bill comes, go to the washroom.  If you want to play a role in the world, even as a small member of the G8, there's a cost to doing...

Congratulations and best of luck to Mr Sajjan on a tough job ahead. I don't wish to rain on your parade, but I think a note of caution should be struck. I get it that you were a good Reseve CO and Vancouver police constable, but MND is fundamentally different. What counts would be having the...

As an addendum to the forgoing debate on the saluting tradition, the palm down version is properly titled the 'Naval salute' and the palm forward version the 'Military salute'. The former is a sloppy karate chop-style movement to the head, the latter a smart military drill movement indicating...

The subject of combat effectiveness of Commonwealth divisions, as well as reputation of all divisions, was covered by Richard Holmes in 'Tommy' (pp.180-82). The issue is more complex than first appearance and many, Guards, Scots, Highland Divisions for example, made claims of eliteism.  A couple...