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I read the MMEV post myself and have been thinking about it, off and on.  While I like your ideas for the radar, and lack the knowledge to speak about the missile choices, I do feel the need to comment on the gun system.  My grandfather was a tanker in WWII, and acquired in the intervening years...

    Get educated?  Darlin', my family has been soldiering in Africa off and on for the last three hundred years.  We did not have to teach them genocide, that is the reality of tribal warfare.  We did not have to arm them, the traditional tools for genocide in Africa are muscle powered, not...

I'll cross post a copy of a letter to the editor of the Vancouver Province in response to the 8 May 2006 article outlining Jack Layton's brilliant NDP plan to get us out of a winnable Afghanistan, and into Darfur.  I had family with Gordon in Khartom, this plan sounds familiar........  Quote...

The best move for the government, serving military, and family of the soldiers is to make the decision as to wether to allow the press to be present, and to what extent, for the repatriation of the fallen to the families of the slain.  I would suggest that a public affairs officer, and possibly...

      The problem is that the press makes a statement that is not supported by the evidence.  Polls of a representative portion of the public, provided they have a broad enough sampling, are reflective of the opinions of the public about the question asked.       What the press seldom reports...

      Possible drill for undead attack: One the word of command, platoon will prepare to receive undead! One-draw fork Two-deploy tzatziki Three-DIP! Upon cessation of attack, platoon will draw issue of pita bread and police the area for unspent tzatziki. If permitted under current ROE...

After posting in support of Trinity, my sense of balance was disturbed, and then this gem came along, and I just had to share.  I have attached a post of mine from one of the Heathen websites I belong to, about the rampant silliness of Christian creationism and its sad attempts at...

    The practice of embedding civilians.... so far has lead to three daughters.  So proceed with caution (he says ducking socks thrown by domestic 9'er) ;D

There have been a few firefights serious enough to call for and receive artillery fire.  As reported in the media (OPSEC a non issue), these can clashes last for hours, involve large numbers of troops, and provided both the need for, and opportunity to employ conventional artillery.  As much as...

The Canadian public has been brainwashed since Lester Pearson that our soldiers are Peacekeepers.  The myth that for the last 30+ years our soldiers have been creating world peace by wearing blue berets and smiling at opposing armies to make them stop fighting.  Our peacekeepers have fought...

I really hate to do this, but I have to back Trinity on this one.  As a heathen, I have had my fill of intolerant Christians, but this chick is something else entirely.  I guess every lunatic has the right to choose their own label, and this one happened to choose Christian.  She could call...

      Buddy, you absolutely do not want to party with us.  That law and order respect that you think is such weakness is what keeps those of us with the skills and training to rock and roll for real from turning your fancy "warrior society" blockades into thirty seconds of rangex.  Hug that...

Protesters who wish to stand on their moral belief in the justice of their cause serve a role in society by taking a stand, being arrested, and having their day in court.  Nelson Mandella did more for his cause by standing trial and going to prison, drawing attention to the plight of his people...

      You should come out from under your rock more often, you might learn a bit more.  Firstly, Canada did not send troops to Vietnam either when the French or the Americans were bleeding over that cesspit. Secondly, Canada spends less of its GDP on its military budget than any of the other...

One thing I must disagree with Von Garvin on is that the CDS, and the rest of the senior officers of our Land, Sea, and Air forces should shut up and soldier.  Our public, media, and politicians are far beyond pig-ignorant when it comes to the realities of military force.  If our PM is telling...

Anyone else have a chance to see an FN BFA's penetrating power against soft targets?  We lost one embedded so far in a tree that it really made us OPFOR types happy the firkin recruits couldn't hit the target any better than they could attach a BFA.  Still and all, I miss old 3L8378, that FN may...

    In all seriousness, it has always been the function of veterans organizations like the Royal Canadian Legion, and Army.ca (for those of us who are retired, anyway) to speak.  In many ways, where General Hiller cannot speak, retired senior officers, like Lew McKenzie have a duty to speak. ...

I am always amazed at how quickly some assumptions sneak into our consciousness.  The idea that one needs to declare war to have one is a complete modern creation.  During ages of formalized warfare, like the Successor states period of post Alexander Greece, late middle ages to-19th century...

Bush was an idiot.  The US had been carrying out attacks on Iraq since the beginning of the first Gulf War, and waiting for Saddam to collapse on his own under the economic hardship of sanctions.  Newsflash, dictators never cared about how the have nots are doing, so it didn't work.  The war in...

The Canadian soldier doesn't (snicker) have the instincts (snicker) to kill (ROTFLMAO) ;D.  Who did you serve with?  I have to admit, I never had that problem.  Whenever the issue has come up (professionally or informally with the criminal element), reflexes and adrenaline did the driving, and...