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English dictionaries will say what they will, but in military planning, a constraint is something that we must do, while a restraint is something that we cannot do. Both constraints and restraints are limitations on our freedom of action but couched a different way. Being assigned a specific...

The role of these vehicles is to provide organic mobility to light battalions when they go to Latvia as part of a surge. They should not be seen as a fighting vehicle, but rather a way for the light battalion to move out of contact.

Just to add to Stoker’s response, RIMPAC has a HADR (Humanitarian Assistance Disaster Relief) portion for which an AOPS would be a good fit. The AOPS was part of that portion this year.

Sure. Some reservists are civil servants in their full-time employment outside the Canadian Armed Forces. Doesn't change my point that CAF members are not civil servants.

What is a uniformed civil servant? Members of the Canadian Armed Forces are not civil servants.

I am somewhat outside my lane here, but I did serve on an embarked Canadian Fleet Staff for about six weeks as part of a major NATO exercise. A Canadian Commodore and his staff was one of two TG commanders for the maritime side of the exercise (there were over 30 ships involved split into North...

Aide de Camp style duties

Again, I leave the determination of "how" to the experts. Like Oddball from Kelly's Heroes, I only ride'em, I don't know what makes'em work. I don't think that Hamas if firing any long-rod penetrators. Pre-war, the Russians were claiming that their APS was doubling their effective RHA rating...

I think that there is a bone fide requirement for some form of CUAS on each tank, but it should be limited to self-defence against what are being called kamikaze drones. Whether this would be EW (wouldn't work against all systems) or something more kinetic would be something to examine. In my...

For a Canadian perspective I recommend Arthur Gullachsen's An Army of Never-ending Strength. I made a thread a couple of years ago here: An Army of Never-Ending Strength: Reinforcing the Canadians in NW Europe 44-45 The Canadian Army had a very robust personnel and equipment replacement...

In other news, C Sqn RCD won the Canadian Army Trophy (CAT) tank gunnery competition conducted in Latvia last month. There were teams from seven nations participating. This was the first time in 33 years that the CAT was conducted. A team from the UK came second, while a team from Italy came...

OK. I am not a navy type, but I will try here. AOPS is for presence and surveillance, but I don't think it is meant as the recce function for strike assets. The armament it has allows it to perform the OPS function on missions like Op CARIBBE. In our Arctic it performs presence and...

I don't think they would be sub-hunting, but it could be useful to be able to tell if someone has been somewhere doing something on our seabed/in our EEZ? That could be one application of a UUV in a AOPS role, not to mention recovery operations etc. UAS would extend the surveillance radius...

Non-RCN person here, but the AOPS strikes me as a useful ship. The RCN is an important aspect of maintaining our arctic sovereignty. I was working on the Arctic file for the Army, and one way to view our arctic is indeed as an archipelago. All the services have an important role to play and that...

Well, there is a Managed Readiness Plan and the Army Operating Plan has chapters on readiness along with an associated Enhanced Warfighting Proficiency Directive. We look at readiness through a lens of personnel, equipment, training and sustainment. "How ready" forces have to be depends on the...

This is an extract from Our North, Strong and Free: Similarly, the Canadian Army’s light armoured vehicle fleet is central to ensuring Canada can maintain its operational commitments, including to NATO, while maintaining a robust fleet at home for training and domestic operations. Canada will...

If anything, many of the other posts should be split off. You are quite right that a discussion of SSE should be focused on the big picture. I think, though, that rather than saying if we should become Australia or New Zealand we should focus on what is needed by Canada. I get that you were...

Before this goes into the Army.CA hivemind of "truth", the US exchange personnel at ACTA worked for me. I was also the link to ARNORTH. We got lots of phone calls before, during and after JRTC 23, but they were regarding things like dangerous goods paperwork for vehicles stopped somewhere in the...

The 1997 movie was certainly a satire of fascism. The book, though, was not. Indeed, the glorification of fascism is among the charges levelled at the book by critics. I think that is a stretch, but there it is. Charges of militarism, though, have to be accepted. There was not a lot of irony...

We've been over this before, but you cannot seem to resist turning any thread into a TAPV discussion. The TAPV was initially conceived as a replacement for a number of vehicles that were being used to move people around Afghanistan. The Canadian Army (CA) had all sorts of small elements...