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Maybe half-assed. Maybe someone knew what they were doing and wanted the truth discovered.

A military does not get to make those decisions. When you join, you don’t join with the freedom to pick which wars you will support.

No. Those are too modern. He wants castles. … with ballrooms.

Same authority they use for blowing up suspected smuggling boats?

Unfunded projects don’t release RFIs. An RFI is usually released when a project is in definition or options analysis. In OA, the project will not yet have access to its funding, but someone will have already done an very rough cost estimate and there will be an allocation in the capital...

Who is going to play the role of Jack Ryan?

The Brits got a couple decades out of their improvisation on the Nimrod before it killed anybody. Maybe we can get the same luck.

That’s a hope CoA. The systems that allowed Trump to happen twice, despite an attempt at autogolpe & speaking many of the authoritarian intentions out-loud, is still there to let the next demagogue authoritarian take the reins. We need a defence policy (encompassing defence acquisition) that...

There are people in CS units & bde HQ who are operating out of Cougar MRAP, TAPV, and LSVW when they should be in LAV but they are not because we don’t have enough of the LAV FoV (which includes ACSV).

ALAV is Additional LAV. It is just buying more, but the 2026 version.

Well, there are a several US Army numbered Special Forces Groups, and a few USAF numbered Special Operations Groups. The US Army also previously had many support groups (Corps Support Groups, Area Support Groups, and Region Support Groups), but most of those were upgraded to sustainment...

So you are ready to assume MAGA cannot survive one man? That the extant system, now demonstrated to be grossly fallible, will magically not put another authoritarian kleptocracy into power?

I believe it is KNDS. Maybe, but the FRG facility for AEVs is still in NB, and Wainwright will do nothing for first and second line support of any type of tank.

There is research linking competing regimental identities to dysfunctions within mixed formations. You can leverage those identities to enhance collaboration between groups of different functions, but not so much between groups who do the same thing. Fragmentation via excessive regimental...

It happened once and they promised it couldn’t happen again. It’s happened again. Are you the fool me three times and I will keep believing type?

Retired Captains are really no better than retired Corporals to strategically oversee a defence department … they may even be worse if they believe the commission somehow gave greater institutional insight from their tactical level career.

The word “regiment” has many meanings, and we are seemingly talking past each other because of those different means … perhaps one more good reason that we should not import the Franco-American use of the word to describe a formation which is more accurately called a group. Anyway … I am saying...

AMERICOM for everything North & South America, International Command for everywhere else, and Support Command for a few capabilities including space & cyber. That would be a major consolidation of HQs.

The Army seems to have already decided this is not starting out as a brigade. Brigades are bigger and should have more than one type of battalion. They follow the pattern. Every thing is Royal Regiment of Canadian Artillery.

Technically, it will be a group but for some reason we have developed an allergy to using that term for manoeuvre formations.