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Just as "war is too important to be left to the generals," justice is "too important to be left to the judges."

As has been noted here, a lot of the article was incorrect or misleading. We can give Mr Brewster a golf clap. A good twitter thread talking through the issue.

Has anyone else seen reporting that the cut down helmets are funning into issues in Ukraine due to frag injuries to the ear areas that used to have protection? I thought I saw this somewhere but wasn't sure.

Two issues at play here. How much ceremonial drill is universal (eg. should be taught at recruit training) and how much ceremonial drill should be retained by the CAF? As to the first issue, and for your first and second questions, off the top of my head I'm inclined to agree with Remius'...

I think you've described about 90% of the CAF....

...and would saluting with arms at the quick march improve the performance of those soldiers in the videos you watched?

Sure mate. You're the one who came on with the categorical statement of fact that isn't backed by the experience of 20 years of war. You could have just asked "hey, do slings make soldiers complacent and lazy, I heard it once" to which the multitude of people here with experience in those wars...

:ROFLMAO:

It's about as good as "alternate weapons carriage in a march, even if it's your off-hand, so you can react to an ambush better."

Rifle slings = laziness is even sillier than rifle drill = disciplined soldier. Thanks for the laugh today. Find me one example where a sling got a soldier killed in Iraq or Afghanistan due to complacency.

So, now that there is violent agreement, someone can go through this and, looking at each drill movement, decide if it is "essential for basic training," "keep on the books if required," or "jettison as archaic."...

Go back to to my first question. How much ceremonial drill is a Ukrainian conscript getting? I asked because I know the answer, having seen this training plan. The fact that we were willing to toss ceremonial drill by the wayside when we considered the essential requirements to train...

I did. The Smith reference is a commentary on Foucault. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/17540290802479186 Just because an academic puts drill and discipline in the same sentence doesn't make it so. It's academic theoretical psycho-babble, not something objective or empirical.

I see a lot of references to Foucault, and prison guards, and nothing saying drill makes better, more disciplined soldiers. Nice try though. To quote Jerry Maguire

You can always teach them if they need it.

Ahh, got it. So the Branch itself doesn't need to be torn down, rather the NCM occupations need to be rescoped as either new occupations or with sub-occs along environmental lines.

PARADE - SCAN AND BREATHE! ONE - TWO, THREE - ONE!

That's interesting. I recently served with a US logistics officer who lamented that his military needed to get better at joint logistics as each service had its own system which made working together much more difficult than it needed to be.

Really, do you have any links to these studies? Google doesn't serve anything up aside from traditional assertions of fact. Never underestimate the power of commitment bias. I'm not saying I am for eliminating ceremonial drill, I just question the veracity of claims that it is intrinsically...

...and this is somehow better than people making assertions that there is a causal link between ceremonial drill and discipline without offering any proof?