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Don't US troops get the same law of armed conflict training we do - ie., following orders is not an excuse? I remember being taught that on a few courses... Lack of a sense of personal responsibility for one's actions - you see it more and more... From burglars suing homeowners for weak roofs...

Smoothbore, No one will deny that many Arab countries have problems nowadays - poverty, dictatorship, illiteracy, etc. But did you know that several hundred years ago the Islamic world led the West in literature, technology, and philosophy? We use an Arabic numeric system - our modern 1,2,3...

Who says in the future that won't happen? Look at Tim McVeigh and the Oklahoma City bombing- up till 9/11 the deadliest terror attack in US history. He wasn't religiously motivated - he was nuts. Why did Pol Pot kill 2 million Cambodians? It certainly wasn't because of religion. Taking innocent...

VAC has it, and Directorate History and Heritage has it on the DND website as well. I was just wondering if placing it as a resource on this site, as well, might be helpful - just another resource here for people looking around for information. After all, the rank insignia were replicated here...

This site has sections on rank insignia, colours, and so forth. I know there's some info (such as the Victoria Cross reference) in the Links area, but what about an "Medals, Decorations, and Orders" section under Information? I speak from ignorance, of course - never having set up or managed a...

There are far too many company-minus-sized "regiments" in the reserves. I've been told stories by artillery reservists about two neighboring reserve "regiments" only able to put together, between them, a four-gun battery for a field exercise. A battery's supposed to have six - and a regiment...

Smoothbore, you're not only denigrating an entire religion and ethnic group by means of a stereotypical generalization, you're managing at the same type to denigrate anyone with religious beliefs. I've got a degree, I consider myself a fairly smart guy, and I'm strongly religious (Christian) -...

I see. I can't agree with you, though, nbk - and here's why: Which powers are these? The oil companies that pay US taxes and which are regulated by them financially and environmentally? The Republican or Democratic parties, each of which regularly loses free and fair elections? Please tell us...

nbk, could you just clarify what you mean by this part of your statement: Given the context of your statement, you appear to be implying that the reason the KKK hasn't attacked Iran is because the Iranians don't have incentive to allow it. Ergo, the reason 9/11 and the other attacks described...

It's funny 'cause it's true....  ;D Oh, wait, I just thought about it, and it's not that funny anymore.... because, sadly, it's true....  :crybaby:

UAVs are great pieces of kit, but they've got limitations. To add to AmmoTech90's comment, another huge problem with reliance on UAVs for fire support is the same you get with manned aircraft - they are heavily dependent on weather. If there's bad weather, or it's excessively hot, or the...

As technology advances, and our guns will be able to orient and fix themselves using GPS and autonomous systems, you'll probably see the gun troop become more important and more independent. If the Royal Regiment does buy a system like LINAPS, and integrates computation of firing data into every...

Since we're on the really cheesy jokes... __________________________________________________________________ A young second lieutenant arrives for his first posting, which as luck would have it, is NDHQ. Feeling a little intimidated by the sheer number of maple leaves and stripes walking...

If you know French, there are a couple of movies made about Canadians in FRY - Operation Tango being one of them. There was another - I just don't remember the name. Unfortunately, it's been about five years since I've seen them, and I cannot for the life of me remember if it was CBC or another...

ags281, I'm not getting it either. This sounds like therapy to me. He was getting the help that he claims he needed but was denied. What would he have us do, lock him up? Well, now he is. Castrate him? Maybe not a bad idea - more merciful than some of the suggestions above... I'm solidly behind...

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What little history IS taught in Canadian schools glosses over our wartime record. Peacekeeping, however, features prominently, but not the 130-odd Canadian troops who have died doing it in the last 50 years. The average young person today doesn't think about the military much. If he/she does...

Hooray! UN sanctions. Just like pre-2003 Iraq, North Korea, the former Yugoslavia - we know how well sanctions will probably work. To play devil's advocate against myself, though, short of sending in troops we probably have no other alternative. So here's hoping (against hope and past...

Give them "noncombatant status" and let them come to the field with us. Just imagine, a green LS with "Tim Horton's" in red lettering on a white field, like the ambulances, delivering coffee and timbits to caffeine-starved soldiers...  ;D Like the padres, they'd keep the morale up. An...

Furthermore, the MMEV is seen as a long-range missile platform, fired from static positions. Nothing I've seen suggests that MMEV will manoeuvre in the face of the enemy. It will strike its targets from more than 6 km away - something the armd corps has no experience with. The MMEV will also...