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We are living in times like the mid-late 1930s. Great powers are being belligerent, and planning to use force to inflict their will on others. While at the same time, other powers are realizing that their forces aren't large enough, or well enough equipped for the coming war/wars. The CRCN...

Youre kinda proving my point, that the culture divide isn’t specific to AB. The culture of rural Canada tends to be very different in practical ways from the culture of urban Canada, regardless of the province/region. It tends to lean more conservative/right, while urban tends to lean more...

It is a partisan issue, because the support for separation is almost entirely right wing, and the loudest opposition comes from the left. I keep seeing peiple mention culture, and how AB doesn't have it's own, but that is false. If we didn't have competing cultural visions, we wouldn't have...

Ignoring the reality that in an all volunteer force, soldiers/sailors/air humans get a say in whether or not they want to go, and then stay somewhere, is a weaker argument. You can't hand wave away inconvenient realities. If the CAF wants to send people to live full-time in the North, the CAF...

@ytz pretty much nailed it. The whole sovereignty thing is a bit of a distraction that people have lobbed into the mix. If we wanted sovereignty, we'd have to go ask Dassault for Rafales. It's not about people being "Gripen fanboys", It's about people seeing the potential in investing in...

Not sure, I'm not posted there and my experience with the army was nearly two decades ago... I do know that Ottawa and Pet get colder winters on average than Anchorage. That means the people there are more acclimatized to colder weather than people in warmer climates. As I said, there is...

This ignores the reality that climate conditions aren't just based on latitude, and that America has far more forces from much farther south than any Canadian bases. So if the troops aren't from Alaska, and they are operating in a continental arctic climate vs a more moderate maritime arctic...

I suspect the type of millennial you are makes a difference. I was born in the early 80's in a rural area, so my experience is similar to yours/Gen X, but those born at the end of the generation likely are far more like the Gen Z than like us. I also suspect those are the millennials people are...

What is curious about an American with lots of cash coming to Canada? Even the worst humans tend to just do normal human things on occasion, like buy a burger or visit a place...

If you stick to the specific forums for the firearm type you're interested in the site is a goldmine, but if you dip a toe in the political side it's an absolute cesspit.

Likely about the same as people rolling around Afghanistan in MLs and Bisons did... Let's no pretend the fighter community is the only community that has to deal with potential risks from older platforms. Its a reality faced by every element of every military, even the Americans have old kit.

That's definitely a prime example. As much as people on here want to dismiss public opinion and jobs claims, they matter. They likely matter more than actual capability, right up until the shooting starts in a peer conflict. All major procurement projects are political to some degree. The...

I predict the public appetite for spending on defence will wither long before we need to worry about 6th gen fighters, particularly if defense dollars are heading out of country while jobs are being lost here.

Canada still has all of those things... The "militia" names have changed, but otherwise all of that exists.

True, and many countries do much worse. We can be better, a lot better, but we aren't that far off the norm. Nobody can compare to the Americans, except the Chinese, when it comes to numbers. Keeping the comparisons more reasonable, 12 surface combattants isn't that small compared to most...

You'd think they would jave learned from the Brits in 1982...

All navies have similar issues, the ocean is not nice to fancy high tech systems. We dont make it better by not investing as much as we should in maintenance, but we are also not alone in that. We just don't spend time other navy's forums to read about their issues.

Fair point, but the GoC also had asks beyond the resources provided. Who bears the brunt of the blame, an institution asked to do more with less, or the institution asking for more while providing less?

Equipment commonality with NATO partners makes sense. Choosing to go all-in on American make little sense apart from making the CAF an auxiliary of the Americans. The reason the 51st state foolishness hit as hard as it did, is there is/was a grain of truth to the insult. For generations Canada...

I'm guessing because he was asked, so he gave the official GoC response...