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Mortar Platoon 1VP in 92-93 was decidedly anti computer.  We ignored them, locked up in their cases.  We all loved plotter boards.  Techniques varied from dotters to daubers, using grease pencil or staedler, both permanent and non.  Ahhhh the good old days. 

I received The Dogs Are Eating Them Now as a Christmas present.  About to start reading it now.  Withholding comment until I have read the book.  But.......... Interestingly though, on page 2 of the intro, he contrasts two campaigns he has experienced/witnessed and offers his perspective of...

I have a Ross Rifle...awesome piece of kit.....just not for the trenches of WWI.  What about TAPV?  What would you trade that for? :)

I worked with a hard core old Reg Fc Warrant Officer in the early 1990s when i was RSS.  When i went to the field with "Ranger Blankets"  and Goretex  he went to the field with CF Wool blanket bedrolls.  He never complained, always warm when wet and he felt it was worth the weight.... I still...

Hell, I've been in for 30 years and I don't even know the standards anymore... research be damned.... If you are worried about your fitness, then set yourself on a program....there are lots of them on here. You can't go wrong with 3 or 4 long slow runs/bike rides per week, interspersed with...

In The Aeroplane Over The Sea  by Neutral Milk Hotel. This is definitely one of the best.....if not the best album.....ever.    Mind blowing. But not for everyone.  I loved it on first listen, but not everyone does.

Yup.  When you are trusted under oath with access to your countries secrets, and you knowingly and willingly violate that oath.....you should get the maximum punishment available.  It will be found out at trial whether his actions were acceptable.

Nemo888, While an interesting debate as to motives and responsibilities, with an opinion like that I hope you don't have a security clearance.  I would assume he has sworn an oath to his nation.  This is not how one should deal with issues of National Security and Policy when it does not...

Over 60% unemployment in 15-24 yr olds is a definite danger....

This one should make Thucydides head explode :) A very interesting anti-austerity article from Time Ideas by Mark Blyth http://ideas.time.com/2013/04/18/why-austerity-is-a-dangerous-idea/ An even better article is in the current issue of Foreign Affairs by Blyth in which he analyzes the...

I don't think so....I'm not overly feminine.  I have, over the years, been known by the name UMIN - Ugliest Man In NATO

Sounds about right to me even if it might be wrong.  I am going through a move from Ottawa to Edmonton right now. Brookfield appear to be hard over on the door to door move stuff based on Treasury Board direction.  The flexibilty that we used to have, to have 21 days of flex between sale and...

You are not wrong, however I don't believe the problem with rank creep is a CF problem.  We dropped the ranks of Bde Comds from BGen to Col, along with a bunch of other reductions years ago, and I don't believe we have had too much rank creep since then.  At the strategic level we are almost...

Not having managed any large capital projects, but having managed some very large budgets, PWGSC has often been the problem.  Let it rest there I say.  I would appreciate hearing the opinion of some project managers of the current situation. 

The Rise of China vs. The Logic of Strategy by Edward Luttwak Discussion on the future of China and his sense that China cannot pursue goals of  economic, military and diplomatic preeminence concurrently without beginning to seriously fail along some of those paths.  Some amusing review of the...

This is  about national finances in a multinational monetary organization.  This isn't a discussion about personal finances and loans.  So actually it is "austerity" which is all about cutting costs as the only option, because the PIIGS have no other option.... they can't print money like...

I guess my problem is what is the definition of failure? The smaller the Eurozone gets....the more it looks like a DM.  The German economic engine cannot survive a rising Euro/DM when it cannot sell its BMWs and Mercedes in comparison to a dropping Yen.  The PIIGs cannot continue austerity...

Same thing we were told.  Second attempts possible other than the sandbag lift. 

Sure, in a perfect world.  But the PIIGs could devalue and it would be a blip.  As they have always done until they got rolled into the European experiment.  Now......Japan is the scary experiment that is going on right now easing a debt to GDP ration of around 245%?  But we won't discuss...

Part 2 of 2 http://piie.com/publications/papers/paper.cfm?ResearchID=2202