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The print media is no better.  I back checked a story in the National Post a few months ago claiming Iran had passed a law requiring those of other religions to wear identifying marks or colours.  Some have proposed this before, but been shut down quietly and firmly in the past.  It turns out...

There is no question that the Afghans are going to keep taking it on the chin until we put that house in order.  For the Afghans that are struggling to build the infrastructure of that country, who are trying to build a government founded on something other than cold steel, who are attempting to...

There is something to be said for keeping the boys and girls together for a bit to depressurize after coming home.  I joined the army as much to understand my father and grandfather as to serve my country, because about some things they could only talk to those who had "been there and done...

While I have great sympathy for the plight of the Afghan civilians, it is tempered with the realization that they allowed this to happen.  Like the Lebanese, they allowed a terrorist organization, a foreign funded and organized religious extremist group, to set up shop and prepare to export...

The halls of Valhalla open for the newest heroes.  I offer my condolences to the comrades, to the families, to the loved ones of the fallen.  For the brave Canadians, and allied soldiers who have fallen, I offer not tears but praise.  They did not shy from their duty, they neither failed nor...

Its hard to know what to laugh at first.  Lets see..... she's punishing herself, saving us the time and effort, she's killing herself (more effort than we'd devote to her sad carcass), but doing a p*ss poor job of it (idiot civilians).  Lastly, we'll finally get some silence from her while she...

    From one of our WO on our line course: "I take it back, you are not monkeys.  Monkeys can fuggin climb!"

    I am the first one to say that the press is not our friend, and to keep it in the family.  Having said that, there are times when keeping silent is allowing "the family" to continue to be corn-holed, and only a little public scrutiny will fix it.  The government may know the truth, and the...

    I have a bit of a religious problem with this fellow.  To an Asatru, two types of persons are beneath contempt, cowards and oath-breakers.  This coward is already an oathbreaker, so I really cannot see how his pledging his (already forsworn) loyalty to us can be a benefit.  On a practical...

The wars we have been fighting in the last while have been against featherweights.  Our tech advantage has been so high that we have been able to avoid the terrible punishment of advancing against a foe without a total command of the air and electronic battleground.  In contested space, to...

  He made considerable contribution to OUR society.  He abandoned the nation of his birth, rather than making a contribution to HIS OWN  society.  Specifically, he abandoned the call to serve those brave men who were being asked to risk life and limb fighting for that society.  He could have...

That was Jim Holland who decided that a good snowfall was sign enough that he should run for the border, and not report to the draft office.  I think the idea of service is so anathema to all of these cowards, that none of their excuses hold up to close, or even casual scrutiny.  There have been...

The following was an excerpt from today's Vancouver Sun, my letter to the editor is below HIPPOCRATIC OATH Flowers has become friends with Dr. Michael Klein, a war resister who went to become head of Family Practice at Children's and Women's Hospitals in Vancouver. Klein, 68, said that coming...

    The armour system sounds like an engineering nightmare for early production QC, but with serious potential.  One worry, how does it perform if the penetration plasma is not conductive?  I mean copper is the standard now, but if the system will only defend against the better conductors, it...

      You have missed the point.  A good soldier does not need a PhD and the body of a Greek god, but he or she does need the will and desire to serve their country to the limit of their abilities.  We can and do take those with the heart and soul of a soldier and train them into whatever role...

    Do you think it would have taken as many strokes for the katana to destroy the machinegun?  Within arms reach a competent swordsman will slaughter a machinegunner.  Outside arms reach my nine year old could butcher Miyamoto Mushashi.  I have a Viking pattern-welded longsword that can slice...

One of the Spark leaders in our area has a husband posted to A'stan right now.  The Spark, Brownie, Guide and Pathfinder troops in Maple Ridge have all contributed $2 per girl for school supplies for the troops to give out to the kids in A'stan.  Her husband had told her how the kids had nothing...

The days of useful conscription for warm bodies are over.  War is a trade, and a damn complicated one.  The very last thing that we need is warm, untrained, unmotivated bodies.  The ability to draft conscription legislation in an emergency is useful, and the point of that would be to recall to...

Torie big ticket spending for this term is for logistic items, specifically new transport and supply ships, heavy strategic airlift (C-17), medium airlift (C-130J), and tactical airlift (helicopter).  While these items do little to add to the hitting power of the battle groups on paper, their...

Here's a new packaging of our favorite Leopard! The message is ready to be sent with the following file or link attachments: Shortcut to: http://eurosatory.janes.com/docs/eurosatory2006/sections/daily/day2/leopard-strikes-for-peace.shtml     Gosh, can we have tanks again? Now that Rheinmetal...