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I'm in! :) Good find.

Its clear it was because Lloyd George undercut Haig from day 1 after the Asquith Government fell - to the extent of trying to have him excluded from the 1919 Victory Parade in London, only to be told by the King that "that won't do." There's a book out there by Gen James Harbord who was #2 to...

Over the summer and fall I read "At GHQ" and "Field Marshal Earl Haig" by Gen John Charteris who served as Haig's G2 in WW1. A few things come out The French in the field were repeatedly timid to the unspoken point of being totally unreliable in their cooperation with the British throughout...

Never trust an unemployed dogmatic prof who lives in a bubble - his spouse the assymetric warfare instructor from CMR must be pulling out her hair - her hubby will not listen and his bio that I know says he's been that way since young lad as he wanted to be accepted by his father - this is a...

Jack is about to spontaneously combust with the Auto Industry - 400,000 Auto related jobs will vanish and bye bye major tax base So Jack has to DEFEND THE PEOPLE! (aka this is all a diversion to Jack's impending demise from the political scene) due to a Canadian Autoworkers union meeting at...

Gen Hillier is also on the Globe and Mail - same theme - http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20081128.wcohillier29/CommentStory/Front/ I hate to say it but the comments at the bottom of the op-ed reflect the political reality - the amazing thing to me is they are consistent with...

PBS SHOW for you http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/warbriefing/view/ Floyd

Check this out http://www.ruhrmemories.ca/

Enjoy - imagine - Cpls in a LAV discussing leverage and bank balance sheets - our Army will be unstoppable :) http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20081121.video1/VideoStory/VideoLineup/Business

You want it - she can't find it for you ----- Here it is!!!!!  http://www.paragear.com/main.asp ;)

From STRATFOR http://www.stratfor.com/analysis/20081016_somalia_pirates_continuing_evolution

Reminds me of a good and true story I read in a diary at the National Archives of Lt Roger Clark, MC, of 3rd Cdn Tunnelling Coy in the Ypres Sector of Belgium. They set the mine known as Hill 60 in 1916 (and blown by Australian Engineers in June 1917). Their mission was tunnel under German Lines...

I think that % will stay the same even if you deploy more

Career ender? Hmmmmmmmmm ----- probably - but not because they're weak - you may be able to put it out of your mind - but if you pass a point which varies for all - you may go "windy" to coin a WW1 term for exhibit the effects of operational stress. When that happens should be a big pension...

http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20081107/ptsd_Afghanistan_081108/20081108 Article mentions heavy drinking @ 17% of the troops - quelle horreur! A bit of research suggests thats the number for heavy drinkers % from the general population ---- aka The Army REFLECTS society...

It sure is - and thanks very much! More info in your local library at Chapter 3 of B-SJ-100-200/FP-001 Land Force Threat Model Puzzle on the way to solution Thanks again to all

Hi I'm on P RES Army Operations Course (AOC) aka AM ON CAFFEINE Am looking for a table of current soviet weapons to match all our Inf Bn, Armd regt. recce sqn eqpt, basic EW eqpt. Anyone have such a beast? hyperlink? would show ranges min - max, sights detect max, ident min etc Thanks in advance

Yes - lets. How about 15% for foregoing a civvy career for the Govt ? Now extend that to the 85% ers - same story - work for the Queen or work for the Green is the same risk in Canada ----> your civvy potential may be diminished by service in the CF so we overpay so you stay. As for overseas...

They stole it from the book "Starship Troopers"

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/jul/27/afghanistan How many PA Staff does it take to counter spin this story?