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It is what it is...Folks can check it out and decide for themselves what, if any, of the points raised or the analysis done is worthwhile

I just thought I'd toss in the CASR bit to raise everyone's interest in checking out the page  >:D  There actually is some stuff worth a read there.

Hi all     Defense Industry Daily, www.defenseindustrydaily.com, has declared today Canada Day.  Lots of stuff on the various acquisition plans from the past couple of weeks.  They even quote CASR in places ;D

"Critical", "unthinking", "blind support"?  No doubt pulling a puppet show from the local parade will have a profound impact on the issues they claim to be so concerned about.  In any event I'd imagine the day will carry on without them.

I'd say the only "conflicted" person in the above article is Ujjal D.  Imagine trying to erase 13 years of Liberal ineptitude in managing the military and now trying to be taken seriously on matters of military spending. 

Hi Guys   I understood the plan was originally to buy more than two ships.  Does this mean we'll be buying some other ships of a different type or that the cost has increased to the point that the JSS budget will only cover two now?  Thanks for any insights.

Sorry!   I was just commenting on how the article we're discussing uses a retired admnistrator, with many years in "defence acquisitions", to take the Tories to task.  When I see the long timeline needed to acquire just about any piece of kit, the political/industrial issues taking priority...

Apparently the Green Party had a "policy convention" in Ottawa on the same weekend.  A coincidence? ;)

So...     We have a retired bureaucrat who spent most of his career in a system that seems mostly to secure wildly overpriced goods of dubious quality after many years of effort now lecturing us on the best method of doing things?  I love it when the media set out to find an "expert"  ::)

I much prefer the Libs declaring that purchases should be based on "military priorities', rather than "politics", then shilling shamelessly for Bombardier.  There was a great line in one of the newspapers on how tossing a bone to Bombardier scores votes "Why save lives when you can save a...

Hmmm...   So we revert to our role as "peacekeepers", spend a fortune "rebuilding Afghanistan", then hand over the keys to the Taliban and head home?  I believe the real problem for the Libs and the NDP is that they honestly have no idea of what policy to advocate on Afghanistan.

What in the world is he so twisted about?  The replies mostly commented on the dubious valus of "polls".  Pobably best if he moves on "down the road" to find a crew less likely to savage him  :crybaby:

"Tip of the iceberg"!? I sense a little "which of the following over-the-top phrases..best describes what you think?" in the poll  ::) How in the world can any randomly selected group of individuals possibly know whether or not this is proof of anything?  Time for the media to take a...

Here in Ontario one of the Toronto AM stations spent an hour or more on the issue of whether or not the "terror arrests" have became a "media frenzy" ::)

I saw the H of C debate between O'Connor and Dosanjih and, kudoes to Gordon, he ran circles around the Libs.  It must be hard being the Liberal Defence Critic; you've gotta reverse 13 years of actual history and reinvent the Libs as "friend's of the military".  I'd imagine they could call...

John Gray is the Globe's "reality check" guy.  Sort of a general-purpose "expert" on pretty much everthing ::) 

Still, it is kinda cool watching the NDP trying to do a 180 and become the soldier's friend.  If only decades of history could be quietly redone :-[

NOW isn't exactly known for Pulitzer Prize quality journalism, folks!  Basically it's a Toronto-centric current events/arts/escort agency listings in the classifieds sort of deal.  I'd imagine NOW readers have already pretty much decided that the Conservatives/America/nuclear...

I saw the Dallaire speech on Rwanda on CPAC.  During the Q and A portion he mentionned he received units from Ghana and Bangladesh that didn't have any equipment and couldn't be used.  These are two of the units Staples refers to as supplying so many more "peacekeepers" than NATO countries..  Do...

Apparently lots of militaries in the third world love sending troops on UN missions, given how much the UN pays for each soldier there's money to be made, so when Staples uses a blunt object like "numbers of troops sent on UN peacekeeping" he's blowing smoke and hoping nobody notices.  Where/how...