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There's a bit older article here written by a US Captain respecting the MBCT and their experiences with the Multi-Purpose Company which has replaced the weapons company of the prior IBCT. 🍻

I think our government would be more likely to pick its battle with say the Bahamas rather than China. Sunny places are better to go to anyway. 🍻

I'm a 1960's product of that (Ryerson bound) albeit I switched over to A&S with an eye on university. ST&T was a great system (actually business and commerce was decent too) and certainly gave me a very broad appreciation and confidence to work at many different things. Schools need to go back...

A good reason why some of that NATO 5% spending should go into increased counterintelligence and cyber security. 🍻

If you can think in the long term and big picture then yes they are. If you live for the moment and let every provocation get under your skin then no they're not. One needs to learn what fights to pick and how to pick them when one works at that level. 🍻

Whenever I see the Brit cadets I see well equipped, well supported young adults on the way to learning military skills. Whenever I see Canadian cadets I see a collection of kids playing around the edges of being perceived as not too military so as not to scare the public. I like what I see in...

Funny. I never knew he died on the Titanic. Certainly a visionary but quite controversial. It was a time that was leading to the 20th Century being Canada's century - a promise that slowly withered away (or was frittered away) after WW2. 🍻

Unlike the Americans, I don't think that there is anything wrong with a relationship with China, per se. What becomes a problem is a dependency on China in critical sectors. We're a resource producing export nation and we need a wide range of markets for that so that we do not become dependent...

I simply can't understand the idea that we have some 20,000 regular force soldiers in the field force and some 15,000 army reservists and we barely have the equipment to put a brigade in the field and probably can't sustain it for more than a week. It makes zero sense to me that we spend...

The issue is the word "immediate." The aim is to create two expeditionary divisions, a homeland division and a general support division which can force generate the multinational Latvian brigade for peacetime rotations indefinitely; mobilize a full expeditionary division for wartime on...

Nope just three battalions of RegF - all the other RegF companies become the 30% in ResF 30/70 battalions. Incidentally there is a Black Watch and A QOR ResF battalion to coalesce around. I'm looking for larger mass at less cost with a professional core within each ResF battalion to provide...

It would be logical from a combined arms training point of view to have an armoured regiment and a mechanized infantry regiment on each base. 🍻

That's a particular biproduct of a system that lives off of taxpayer money. In private industry, for the most part, the rule is to cut your losses rather than throwing good money after bad. 🍻

Just further to the above. Armouries ranges etc all come under the regional support battalions. Some of the amalgamated 30/70 units would operate out of their existing armouries while others would need different facilities to cater to the equipment they get (I envision every unit at full...

I haven't gone to anything as detailed as armouries etc. I do see a basic change in infrastructure as follows: For training, I use the existing infrastructure with one exception. In my mind there is a new Canadian Army Individual Training Group which has several regional depot battalions each...

To get this back on track for artillery, no artillery unit would be full regular force. In this lay-down, 1 Div is the defence of the homeland division. 2 Inf Bde is the regular force quick reaction airborne brigade, while 39 and 36 Inf Bdes are anti-access/area denial brigades. Every fires...

I know this is heretical, but my view is that three airborne battalions is all the regular force infantry that Canada needs. I would assign all three of those battalions as part of the defence of Canada division. Beyond that I think that the remaining 18 regular force companies should be part of...

My reading between the lines is that the RAF is saying that we just don't want to play silly-bugger with you folks anymore: it's expensive, it takes airplanes away from actual valuable work and quite frankly its boring stuff in peacetime which will probably kill us and our very expensive...

Hey @daftandbarmy! 🍻