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Do you really think some theatre commander is going to get a random division and he has no idea what capabilities they have or the OOB till their MGEN shows up with a PowerPoint? For people who served, you guys have some bizarre ideas of how the institution works. First of all, NATO has...

Where do you think the CA got the idea from? The RCAF has the same structure. All the operational fleets in 1 CAD. Training fleets in 2 CAD. Space in 3 CSD. Also, our fighter wings, all have helicopter squadrons in them. Like I said, you're getting hung up on names. A division can be...

Was it actually called a mechanized division? Man. Some of you guys get way too hung up on names. It's pretty clear there's a broad strategy here to separate reg f combat arms, res f combat arms and supporting elements. Names are superfluous. They can be changed.

Go ahead. I've argued both in forums and in any professional context where I get the chance to, against the MQ-9. You seem to think there's uniform consensus on this. They are making lemonade out of lemons. And that's great and all. But that doesn't mean that every single thing the...

Debatable to me. Based on foreign policy and all that. What's not debatable is a call to have high end land capabilities at home with zero relation to the actual threat.

Very much. Dudes twisting themselves into pretzels to justify more HIMARS. If you want more, just make the case for the expeditionary force to have more. At least that is sellable. Instead of arguing that the only solution to a dark contact is to sling a US$3.5M PrSM at it. I don't think...

I wouldn't go that far. But I do think there's asymmetric speed on development here. There's an urgent need to get the regular army to the point they can provide heft in Europe. And so that is being prioritized. Meanwhile they are working out what to do with the reserves. And putting them...

Irrelevant. Because we are buying them anyway. They address more than the current threat being discussed. It's not so much that you have to base a battery of launchers anywhere. It's that covering the coast to the same level that aircaft could do, would require a ton of launchers and a ton...

Redo your math for the actual reality of how we do ship detection. 1) Space based ISR that looks far out over the Atlantic, Pacific and Arctic. 2) Maritime Patrol aircraft with trans-oceanic ranges and the ability to drop a literal tonne of ordinance on to a target. 3) See the range for...

So like all five of you. LOL. Stand by for posting to ADM(POL) and ADM(FIN).

You army guys are so obsessed with getting toys that you refuse to understand how our sea control system works. We do our best to detect, classify and sometimes even intercept ships thousands of km from our shores. If it's a military threat? A coastal launcher will not be as quick to respond or...

Historically, we haven't had a government who has both publicly committed to meeting NATO targets and actually directed the various departments to make that happen. We literally have not seen this level of spending in 40 years. And this is leading to weird results. The PM demands we move...

That dude wanted to be left alone. Today's westerners are very much insistent they should be able to impose on other provinces. That's the difference.

Not quite. A good chunk of our coastline is far from major population settlements and a good chunk of it is covered in ice for a large chunk of the year. A coastal battery is less important to us than robust maritime surveillance from air and space the aviation options to deliver a kinetic...

A massive problem we have is divining what the hell TBS wants. And this happens on every file. On one file they prioritize defence capability. On another, it's industry. And nobody knows what the flavour of the day is until their TB submissions gets fired back. That's where an agency like...

It's more than that. HIMARS is also important for coastal defence to Australia. We don't have the same issue in Canada. Or the same solution. Also, people need to stop getting worked up over initial purchases. Once a system is inducted, it's much easier to convince the government to buy...

He was referring to the US.

I'm cautiously optimistic. I've seen some solid ideas put up on how this would work. And we've had actual civvie EXs from MAT group on exchange in different countries to gain experience, with the hope of implementing some of what they've learned at home. I'm a big fan of the Australian...

Ever worked requirements staff?

Our productivity is terrible because we rely on unproductive sectors like real estate. Something like a sixth of jobs in Canada are FIRE sectors (Finance, Insurance, Real Estate including construction). That's not good for productivity. It's just a circle jerk of selling each other ever...