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This may come as a shock, but we just moved a Leopard Sqn to Europe by sea. We also moved the initial eFP BG by sea. We moved a CMBG HQ, Svc Bn, Light Battalion and associated support to Norway in 2018 by sea from near Valcartier. We are part of STEADFAST DEFENDER 24 this spring which...

A non-sensical discussion. Is everyone carrying 3 Javelin? Now, in a LSCO scenario I imagine that it you asked an infantry Company Commander if he would rather have 3 x MGS or one Javelin per Section then I expect he would take the Javelin. Every time. MGS is dead anyway. But war is not a...

We have 15 Leopard 2A4M in Europe right now.

That's not really how it works. Its not about "targets served." What can kill or suppress the soldier with the Javelin? How does that soldier with a Javelin support an assault? Or an advance? Or conduct counter-moves? Tanks have been killable by relatively cheap systems since they entered...

All RCAC units will be "Armoured Cavalry. " How a CMBG Comd chooses to group his forces for a given task will likely look similar to today. If a CMBG Comd has three Heavy Sqns with Leopard 2s then I anticipate he will use them pretty much like tank squadrons. A rose by any other name would smell...

I am just saying that I do not speak for the RCAC and that some of my colleagues may well have differing professional opinions from me. It will be hard to convince me, though, that an M10 is a better tank than a Leopard C2. I am not an equipment project guy, but acquisition is not like a Real...

I joined the ARes in London in 1989. There was something called "Strike Company", which I thought was a WWF tag-team but was actually a grouping of Militia folks from a number of units around London that tried to train on AVGP provided by 1 RCR. They were not part of 1 RCR - but were rather...

An interesting thought exercise. I think I would only want the three fleets if the light and medium were the same chassis with the same powertrain etc. Which might be a non-starter. Would I take nine squadrons of M10s instead of three squadrons of Leo2s and six squadrons of LAV Recce/LRSS? I...

I think there is something to be said for rolling any ARes units into Reg F units that are geo-located with them.

There will always be a training requirement when moving between platforms. At a minimum there are the individual training (courses) aspects related to actually operating the equipment. Then there are the individual training aspects related to tactics/employment. There can also be collective...

At the risk of hijacking this thread to talk about tanks and armour, I will give a little more context on my last post (I lost half of the post). The doctrine note identifies tactical tasks that all armoured units will execute within the categories of Offence, Defence, Stability and Enabling...

You have it backwards. This Armoured Cavalry initiative expressed in the Doctrine Note is not focused on the vulnerability of tanks and that we would therefore use them for reconnaissance. There are number of factors driving this shift, but one of them is a sense that traditional "sneak and...

Sorry - missed this. My understanding is that it will be seven recce/Armour Sqn (Medium/Light) Sqns. This is the current Pet and Val laydown with C Sqn RCD in Gagetown converting while the LdSH convert their one recce/Armour Sqn (Medium/Light) to tanks (Armour Squadron Heavy?). I don't want...

The Canadian Army is reorganizing it’s Armour regiments. Eighteen months ago there were two tank squadrons at the LdSH in Edmonton and then C Sqn RCD in Gagetown. C Sqn is a mix of RCD and 12 RBC. When the dust settles there will be three tank squadrons (Armour Sqn Heavy?) in Edmonton and seven...

They've purchased a battalion worth of tanks and support vehicles - all good. Although they have smartly included 4 x AVLB for small gap crossing, I would hardly characterize this purchase as emphasizing water-crossing capability. I will let the Romanians figure out their organization including...

So a non-doctrinal army has doctrine that it doesn't publish? This is some Schrödinger's Army that simultaneously has and does not have doctrine?

In war there are always adaptations, and each adaptation can in turn expose another vulnerability. The Israelis and Hezbollah were locked in a counter-insurgency campaign in the late 90s in the south-Lebanon "security zone", a strip of Lebanon that remained occupied by the IDF. There was a...

The design requirements had blast ratings, but there was no belief that the TAPV would result in an "utterly IED proofed vehicle." Everybody understood that that was impossible and there are always trade-offs.

The TAPV was acquired to meet the needs of Kandahar circa 2008 and any future Kandahars. It was meant to replace RG-31s and GWagons etc. It then expanded to try to cover reconnaissance as Coyotes were suffering significant losses and were at the limits of blast-proofing. I am not an...

As a CO I agree with much of what you say here, but I do grant Compassionate Leave for situations like pets and childbirth. Maybe I'm soft, but I am granted a lot of latitude for what constitutes compassionate circumstances and I am grateful for that. I appreciate manoeuvre room. I am not...