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Agreed, my point was, this concept of operations was flawed.  This is perhaps, the only item of defence policy from the Trudeau era that I support.  The rest, not so much.

The problem with the nuclear weapons strategy was that it was meant more to be a deterrence then anything else.  As you state, we were badly outnumbered and the role of the nukes was to break up massive Soviet armoured formations.  But, the chief principle of this policy was that a nuclear...

Mulroney brought the troops home, but he did not destroy their fighting capacity, that had already been done by Trudeau.  Prior to Trudeau our forces stationed in Germany numbered close to 20,000 at one point, and as I said, were generally regarded as the best formation on the front.  Even when...

No need to suspect.  It is a well documented fact that Trudeau wanted to end Canada's involvement in NATO and NORAD.  In fact, he almost did.  There were some in his cabinet that advocated against this, however, it was ambition of stronger economic ties with Europe that ultimately changed...

I say lets do it.  If Shatner imerses himself in this kind of role, he will certainly be getting the Navy out in the spotlight.

I think Janice Kennedy should be appointed Queen of small-mindedness.  While reading her entire article, I couldnt help but think that she is taking an extremely narrow, and less then one sided view of Canadian politics.

I had something similar happen to me.  I was put on a MEDCAT by accident.  It was a typo when some clerk was entering my medical information into my MPRR.  It delayed my CT as well.  I went through months of BS only to find out that it was indeed a typo, and my issue was fixed in 5 seconds...

How the heck does an Ordinary Seaman at St Jean find the time to coordinate such an activity?  I wouldnt be surprised if there were more players involved.

I think that Scott Taylor would have been more accurate in saying that it would be EXTREMELY difficult to bring about a western style democracy in Afghanistan in the short term.  The Afghan culture is just too different from our own to have our exact system of government work.  Moreover, Afghan...

Does anyone have any idea, where on the DIN, I can find a list of course dates for this particular course?  I spent an entire afternoon looking and came up dry. 

In my opinion, Gen. McChrystal played a large role in what success the Americans did have with COIN in Iraq.  Something tells me he is up to the job in Afghanistan as well. If one follows the COIN doctrine, it becomes painfully obvious that only the local population can defeat an insurgency. ...

They are still hiring.  Get in touch with Cpl Moeller ASAP to get the ball started.  If all goes well you should make it into the unit in time to begin their next QL5 weekend training serial.  That will take place throughout the year.  Then during the summer you will be away for a couple of...

Are you planning on joining Int in the reserves or the reg force?  As far as I am aware the reserve QL5 does not suffer from any delay.  If you join, your chances are extremely high that you will be taking the Int Op course on weekends throughout the year, and then the final mod during the summer.

That really depends on who your staff is.  The last time I taught a QL5a we did morning runs for a while in Kingston.  Then, about half way through our course WO was ordered to stop the runs because the candidates were complaining that they were having a hard time absorbing the information...

Alot of these protestors are also from the anarchist or anit globalization movement.  Typically, many of them are of student age, yet have dropped out of university, quite poor, and unmotivated to do much other then protest.  The good news is, there are strong indications that there movements...

Thats what the Cpl in my office told me today about the course he was just on.  The BIOC is also currently 6 months.  However, I heard talk that they were looking at scaling the course back to 4 months because CFSMI did not have the resorces or manpower to run more then one 6month BIOC per year...

Just an update: I spoke with an Air Force Int Op that just recently finished his QL5 course.  He said he only had to wait a couple of months for a course.  I dont know if this will be the same for everyone else, but, he seemed to go through the system pretty quickly.  Hope this helps.

If you are Int Op army you will definitely need the SQ.  I am not sure about the other elements.  I know officers of all elements have to take the CAP, so its likely the NCMs would all have to do SQ.  The new Int Op course is 6 months long.  As for delay in course loadings, I dont have the info...

If he goes infantry ncm to infantry ncm on a CT to the reg force, then theoretically it should not take very long.  I know some guys that stayed in the same MOC and it only took two weeks, but I know others were it took several months.  If we were back in May there may have been some value in...

If the liberals do lose and Ignatieff is replaced, that would be very bad.  The liberals would end up falling hard to the left again and that is never good.  I prefer Harper by far, but we need Ignatieff as liberal leader long enough for the party to return to the center.  As much as I like...