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As always, it boils down to the consent of the governed.

Nothing much to disagree with there. I do disagree on LSCO duration. The army we have is the one that will open the war. It will have to hold until follow on forces can make it into the field. Eventually some follow on force will be available. What we are debating is hiw long the existing...

And how many CCAs are we buying and from whom? And what additional missiles, UAVs and LMs are we buying for the Army and the Navy as well as the Air Force. All of that contributes to Air Power.

WW2 11,267,000 people in Canada in 1939 1,100,000 people served Canada in uniform. 401,882 men were registered for conscription. 124,555 were drafted for home defence. 99,651 were found fit for service. By difference 1,000,000 of the force of 1,100,000 was found from volunteers. Something...

In my opinion what this latest unpleasantness has shown is that if a government was truly concerned with national survival then it would focus on weapons and not people. It would focus on filling armouries, magazines and warehouses with the tools necessary to defend the nation. Motivated...

There is a difference between staffing a whole of the nation defence force for the duration of a national emergency and compelling the nation to serve in a standing army indefinitely. Yes, conscription was resorted to when we ran out of volunteers. And it damn near broke us as a nation. It was...

You make it too complicated. You create a structure around which volunteers can coalesce. They offer their time. You ask for part-timers to take shifts, for part-timers willing to turn out locally when called, for people willing to take on a short term contract with the regs. And you...

From the above, per our PM: "The way we were making decisions, until this government, often was what's the military requirement? If it fulfils the miltary requirement, then we go with that." 2040 it is then. Apparently we weren't taking enough concern over industrial benefits. Moving on...

Wiki on the Danish PM. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mette_Frederiksen I hope that she rubs off on Carney and he can take our Liberals o the same journey.

In 1610 Spain kicked out the Moriscos (Moors and Jews who had inadquately converted to Spanish Catholicism). They promptly packed up and left for Morocco where they joined up with a bunch of unemployed Protestant privateers that had had their letters of marque pulled. They had been authorised...

She has also seen fit to ban the burqa, close the borders, deport illegals, confiscate gold and jewellery worn by asylum seekers to defray their costs, and split up ghettos in government housing by moving immigrants to majority Danish areas from majority immigrant areas. She is a Social Democrat.

The Danes are putting new arctic patrol vessels in the water starting 2029. In the last 3 years they bought a regiment of guns to replace their inventory which they donated to Ukraine. They decided they didn't like those, donated them to Ukraine as well and bought another regiment's worth...

And we are likely to be living with Trumpian foreign and economic policies for a long time. Even if the Democrats get back in.

Job protection is only necessary if the government demands service. If the service is voluntary, if it is freely donated by the volunteer, if it doesn't discomfit the volunteer unduly, then no job protection is required. We deride Russia and Cuba and such for trying to run countries on command...

Anybody that has ever tried to sell anything quickly becomes aware of the need for manipulation. You don't have tell the problems with your solution. The client and the competition both will handle that. You have to focus on maintaining credibility and promoting your benefits. Eventually you...

Re Inflection 2025 For me I would let the regs run with the expeditionary div. That clearly is where their heart is. On the other hand I would draw the Light Infantry Regiment into the Continental div along with the Militia Brigades and the Rangers. I would expand both the Militia and...

And another... https://substack.com/@roybentzvi/note/c-159043553?r=29ob66 Short form ... They don't have to recognize Christian laws because Islam is right. We have reached this stage: I'm right. You're wrong. Have a nice life.

https://substack.com/@roybentzvi/note/c-159274192?r=29ob66 A Spanish Jew's perspective. I remind all that Franco, darling of the Church and buddy of Hitler, Mussolini and Salazar, only died in 1975. Portugal's Salazar died in 1970. It took until 1986 before they were considered ready to...

Further to... I know a lot of regs consider all of this a waste of resources, a waste of time, people and money. I would posit the effort as an investment, an investment with two net benefits for the regs: People voluntarily pay more taxes to pay your salaries and pensions and supply you the...

You really don' t get it, do you? It is not about what volunteers can do. It is about guardsmen and terries, scouts and guides, perceiving the threats and supporting government military spending, including investing in the world's best trained and equipped, but small, standing army. It is...