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Everybody is both master and slave, buyer and salesman. I have said this before. I have spent at least as much time selling solutions to my management as I have to my clients.

Once upon a time people learned trades by holding the dumb end of the tape, fetching left handed screwdrivers and pulling wire while leaning over the shoulder of a tradesman.

Stop thinking of days and start thinking of periods of instruction and courses. Just like any other educational system. Test the Major Training Points and move on.

The horizon is still only 15 miles away. How much can you see from one platform? Unless you are going to rely on comms and a network of remote sensors.

https://militarnyi.com/en/news/roshel-has-launched-production-of-armored-vehicles-in-ukraine/#:~:text=Canadian%20armored%20vehicle%20manufacturer%20Roshel,joint%20production%20of%20armored%20vehicles. They should have some spare capacity in Toronto now that they are manufacturing in Ukraine as...

Here's where I part company. I honestly believe that the DoC Division can work. But it will require reg force engagement by people that want to be there, that feel their endeavours wilk be rewarded and that want to work with civilians that want to learn how to soldier. It will also require...

.... This monkey is going to stop chasing weasels round the mulberry bush. .... Reg Forces only. How big an Army does Canada need? And how much should we pay for it? Go back to first principles of threats and intent and geography and tell me how big a standing army do I need to hire so that...

Per the StatsCan package posted, in 2018, "contributing an average of 45 hours to improving their community through activities like maintaining a park or public space". 45 hours to improve their communities. That, to me, indicates the civic mindedness comparable to that shown by the Home...

I agree on the Jr Ldr files. They need to be committed (some to an institution). What I am talking about are the people that @KevinB derisively calls "cannon fodder". Those people are necessary in large numbers and yet in the Canadian Army there are something like 9,000 Privates in an army of...

When the other trades start taking casualties the truckers and "light infantrymen" could have already started upgrading their skills to take on some of those vacant slots. The important part is to get them in the door and engaged by the system. It is also important, both for the system and the...

Perhaps that is something all our wannabe social engineers could put their minds to. And perhaps the government might want to harvest some of those 1,200,000,000 hours that Canadians volunteered in 2023 per Stats Can. https://www.statcan.gc.ca/o1/en/plus/825-national-volunteer-week Are...

And the Swedes were dragged back in every few years for two or three weeks in the field for refresher training. I saw senior managers in foreign subsidiaries of Swedish companies pulled back to Sweden to do three weeks in the field as an infantryman (light, mech or armoured I don't know). And...

The secret sauce in places like Sweden was a combination of: Vehicles that, by design, were easy to learn. Reserves made up of people that had done a year of "conscripted" training. The Swedes considered the Leo superior because it was designed for conscripts to learn to use. Then they could...

While we debate https://euro-sd.com/2025/07/articles/exclusive/45508/danish-acquisition-programmes/

https://www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2025/09/large-remote-missile-vessels-german-navy-plans-to-procure-unmanned-arsenal-ships/ Germany's plan.

This Saab https://www.saab.com/newsroom/press-releases/2005/a-successful-first-flight-with-filur The things you can accomplish if you have to rely on yourself.

Same thing. Wannabe leaders need to attract wolling followers.

I dare to dream.

But they are bought by politicians...

Further to Denmark So she donated her stock of M109s to Ukraine and replaced them with 19 CAESAR 8x8s. She donated them to Ukraine. She is replacing them with a set of Israeli ATMOS howitzers and PULS rocket launchers. She has also donated French built CAESAR 6x6s Slovak built Zuzanas...