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FFCP is not a normal project. It's lead by a two leaf with several BGENs leading just project components like infrastructure and training. You can be sure that MND is updated regularly. But ultimately this is above MND and TBS. If cabinet decides it, DND can be ordered to implement a...

It's never been about sovereignty. The whole Gripen thing started with jobs. All the internet warriors made this about sovereignty. Dual fleet arguments have been thoroughly hashed. So I won't go through them. A big problem is sequencing here. Unless there are enough F-35s purchased to...

Sure. But there's more than those two.....

The Americans are starting to be problematic with information sharing in some projects lately. Due to obvious tensions. If there's a non-American option a project, it goes faster. And thankfully for this one, they've got three.....

Still skeptical. Haven't seen enough EW assets and tankers in the region. Unless they plan doing all this at max range which reduces probability of success. That first strike has to be so overwhelming. They've got to do as much damage to the regime as possible while doing sof ops to grab the...

Like I said. If you do your staff work, the DIA fairy and Santa Carney will deliver. Nobody has any idea how long the party will continue but every community that has any sense is trying to get something signed off and an RFP out the door before some change of government sees a souring on...

Enjoy. https://www.shephardmedia.com/news/landwarfareintl/canada-looking-to-expedite-purchase-of-armoured-fighting-vehicle-and-a-new-tank/

"Law enforcement" Real life demonstration of the Stanford Experiment.

They were supposed to harass and kill brown people. Not middle class white folks like a VA nurse. But that's what happens when you give a badge and gun to some dude with 47 days of training.

Statistically, ICE now has a higher rate of homicide than immigrants, legal or illegal in the US. If this keeps up, they'll be racking up more kills than some organized crime groups. They've already killed two in January. And with a force of 22 000, that works out to a rate of 9 per 100 000...

The Wahhabists spreading their ideology is a problem. But on a purely statistical basis in Canada, I (particularly as VisMin) need to fear young white guys. They are more like to shoot up a mosque (Quebec City) or run over a family out for a walk (London) than a Muslim in Canada successfully...

Bigger threat maybe. Doesn't make the others no threat at all. I hope you're not trying to defend one set of crazies by pointing at another set of crazies, just because you might share some affinity for them. Personally, I'm for a zero tolerance policy with all crazies.

Exactly why I hope the CAF never gets into domestic issues and why I absolutely detest the militarization of police. It makes the cops think the public is their enemy while simultaneously eroding trust in the military. If the cops want to be jackboots, let them dress like thugs so the public...

And Sikh separatists used their holiest temple in India to do the same. Religious nutters everywhere are the same. Wasn't that long ago that Christians were killing abortion doctors and bombing their clinics. When a person convinces themselves they are fighting for God .....

There's 40 000 fewer of the bravest Iranians who would do that, today. That's my point. And at this point can they trust the US to be persistent? They start with the street battles during the bombings and the regime fires off since TBMs towards Saudi oil fields and ASCMs towards tankers in...

The Saudis have to be willing to risk their oilfields. The Emiratis are risking their cities as commercial hubs in the Middle East. Neither of them will care about the Iranian human rights or even geopolitical advantage for regime change. What exactly do they get out of it? And without those...

Doubtful. 1) What countries are going to give them basing and or transit rights for a weeks long air campaign? For British aircraft, from Cyprus they have to go through Syria and Iraq, possibly even refuel over those countries. Without permission. This is expeditionary ops that even...

Protests have died down. How's the military op going to work now?

We're technically a threshold state.

A good video of some of the physics and economics challenges of SMRs: