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No, the battlegroup tasking is over in '09. Is that THAT bad a thing? We've carried our combat load for 3 or 4 years. When will another of the 37 NATO nations in Afghanistan step up?

Is invading a country for the purpose of protecting civilians without precedent? FRY was such a case. There is a multitude of literature (see: Responsibility to Protect) which argues that a country's sovereignty is forfeit once it commits acts of genocide and other such atrocities upon its own...

Your argument, here, is logically flawed. Your reasoning is that the mission in Afghanistan benefits Canada because they have "threatened Canada and killed thousands of innocents throughout the world." Threatening isn't anything to worry about, because terrorism relies on threats to achieve it's...

The decision to deploy forces remains a power of the executive branch of the government. So, the Prime Minister could keep us there without parliament's approval. However, in a parliamentary democracy, the check on the Prime Minister's power comes in the form of a parliamentary non-confidence...

Anyone 'in the know' have an idea of what sort of positions will be available for stream 4? I put my name in for this last November and I'm curious as to the positions available. I know a lot of colleagues who have gone stream 3 (around 40 pers from the Camerons) in positions such as CIMIC...

I think you meant to say "this is Canada not South America"..

That's where I stopped reading.

Hilarious.

Anyone have a copy of the poster they're using for this for advertisements? It's a lone soldier, with a bronze hue, and it says "Get your plane ticket" or something.

You mean, those cadpat fleec-y bottoms they gave me wern't pajamas?

Can French (read: France) citizens join the Canadian Army under any sort of concessions? I know that Canada and Britain have some sort of pact. I have a friend who moved here from France and is very interested in what I do and expressed interest in joining the Reserves.

NGO stands for non-governmental organization. That term encompasses any organization that is separate from the government, international or otherwise. Some concern themselves with human rights, some concern themselves with international standards. Think of the International Standards...

Breakdown the acronym and think about the individual words - Improvised - Explosive - Device. It's a term that describes a weapon which is impromptu and hastily assembled, following no discernible convention of design. They're hardly manufactured as they are rigged together by someone with basic...

I find it hard to believe they'd kill a project that's been in development for 15 years without actually testing it in Iraq first.

Wow, so that's what a $500 billion dollar defense budget gets you. http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/military_law/4215715.html Pretty cool shit.

I've heard two conflicting policies regarding 404's and civilian drivers licenses. To get your civvie pattern qualification, some have told me you need a full G civvie drivers license. Others have told me that if you have completed a driver wheel course, then you don't need a civvie license to...

I stopped reading after the numerous factual and analytical errors in the first paragraph. It's a biased and misinformed article. I wouldn't recommend reading it. Much more intelligent articles have been posted on this website. This new article does not raise any new issues.

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/15.03/bemore.html?pg=1&topic=bemore&topic_set= Wired reports on a glove developed by Stanford researchers Dennis Grahn and Craig Heller which combines a cooling system with a vacuum in order to chill blood vessels and drastically reduce fatigue. Besides the...

There are a few different interpretations of the United Nations, and international organizations as a whole, but I'm going to illustrate one of them here in detail. The realist (as in, Realism in international political theory, not the literary definition of realist) conception of international...

I don't have DIN access, nor am I in the loop whatsoever, but from what I heard... the directive is that ALL DP1 Infantry's will be run out of meaford from now on.