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Categorically false. I actually explicitly endorsed the importance of the overall capability and project while suggesting that a specific niche effect/ employment scenario could more sensibly be covered off by another means. So we're going to fly our HIMARS in and wait for the rest of the Bde...

Agreed Who said it should? For me this all comes back to Chunmoo vs HIMARS and the justification for that decision. We're going to spend significantly more, wait significantly longer (unless we get them out of US stocks), and put more eggs in the US basket, all for less payload. If C130...

Not in the context of continental defense, which was explicitly outlined in my initial point. That fact was being used to expand the potential employment envelope as a part of the argument to justify requirements. "LRPF isn't being purchased to be flown in to defend the North via Increment II...

Is it? The capability being discussed is engaging continental targets with explosive payload via long range missile. Both methods involve long flights to the launch area by non combat aircraft. One requires diverting a significant proportion of the aircraft's payolad to a truck/ launch vehicle...

Not questioning the necissity or importance of LRPF, but in the context of continental defense the concept of flying a HIMARS into the north with 1-2 long range missiles seems l superficially really cool. But on second look, would we not be better served with more P8's with the right weapons?

I wonder if we're at the point where the decision being contemplated is whether we can afford to wait for the planned Navy we wanted to come online, or if the combination of delays, the state of the fleet, and the changes to the world have created an immediate need that is going to force a...

I've read a lot of Clancy so I'm clearly an expert on all things Naval (so take this opinion for what it's worth) I think it's obvious that we need something more than a modernized Kingston- a Naval beat cop with at best a medium caliber cannon just doesn't cut it. But I also think (based on...

my hope would be the CPC counter goes the other way and leaves voters with a nuanced fight between flavours of a pragmatic center, but I'm a dreamer

If it doesnt have ppc links directing traffic in my bet is some early year media studies student's project

What? How do you expect the CPC to move forward as an organization and win if the membership doesn't have the willingness and desire to look itself in the mirror, hold the leader to account, and learn from it's losses?

Bullshit. At least two of that "crowd" have receipts in the thread as being either present or past members of Conservative political organizations. And if he loses, will you blame him for pissing it away, or the electorate for not voting right correctly?

I don't think they're even particularly shitty rules. There's just been a gap exposed by a pretty particular set of circumstances 19 years after they came into effect.

Dan McTeague has a negative opinion on Mark Carney. Right, wrong, or in between, whatever. It's his opinion to have. It is factually correct that Dan McTeague served as a Liberal MP for a number of years. It is also factually correct that Dan Mcteague is currently employed as the head of an...

Besides me? I neither said nor implied anything like those concepts no longer being important. What I did was make a tongue in cheek reference to how prevalent they were in yesterday's conversation, and point out that the very next day we're faced with dishonestly framed information.

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Carney definitely has to prove that either his climate evangelism was either "just a phase" or that he has the pragmatism to react to the world we live in and shelve (or at least significantly temper) his ideology. That being said, with "conflict of interest" and "transparency" being the...

A "?" generally denotes a question. Open source information on Australia's JORN system puts the range at 3000km. Based on that information, the question is warranted. An answer of "ours will have longer range than the Aussies, so Borden will work fine" answers it pretty succinctly As to the...

Defending flanks is for chumps. More seriously though, why Borden? Even with a 3000km range and 180 degree arc you'd think that it should be farther North and more central to optimize national coverage.

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