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There is much talk about deterrence, and about cost effectiveness of capital punishment, and I will leave those discussions to others.  While I do not say that executing a serial rapist/murderer will deter others from committing a like crime, and I cannot say it will be cheaper than imprisoning...

      I do apologize for the when.  As a soldier I always forced myself to work within the assumption that casualties would happen, so that I would be able to continue my duties without interruption in the event I was confronted with injury or death while on duty.  I hope none of our soldiers...

This is a copy of an open letter I wrote in response to a Vancouver Province editorial on this ad. Sir,     I feel compelled to respond on behalf of my still-serving brothers and sisters in the Canadian Armed Forces who are forbidden by our laws from speaking for themselves.  I see in the...

The judge no longer believes in punishment.  This statement should be written not in a judgement, but in a letter of resignation submitted to his superiors.  If a man in his position no longer feels he has the capacity to discharge his duty to the people, then his sole duty is to step down. ...

We can't move an MGS across Canada, let alone to Kandahar in a C130, so why don't the feds face the facts that we require a plane that can transport something heavier than a G-wagon.        Maximum payload capacity of the C-17 is 170,900 pounds, and its maximum gross takeoff weight is 585,000...

    Reasonable force is situational.  It is not reasonable to place my wife and three primary school daughters at risk by facing potentially hostile intruders in my home on terms that allow the potential that they be left at the mercy of intruders whose aims may include assault, molestation or...

    Son the police detain people, if I respond to an intruder in my home with my sword, they have until I reach them to flee, for I shall not pursue. If any man stands against me in my home, he will surely die for it, as the army neither trained me to hesitate nor to disable.  If he has a...

I have always used a shortsword for home defence.  Three feet of shining steel do a hell of a job of convincing intruders to beat feet (even when they are holding crowbars or other items of greater practical lethality), and if you have to use it, it doesn't punch through walls to kill sleeping...

25mm cannon are nice, but lack the knockout punch of a 105.  Against hard targets, the 105mm has the ability to bunkerbust better than any light cannon, and for cheaper than the equivalent missile punch.  If our LAV mounted the 25mm with side mounted Spike, Javelin, or TOW missile systems, then...

    If we are going to pay more for the MGS than the M1A2, then we should be buying the M1A2.  For a direct FSV, having a vehcle that can be repaired and resupplied in tandem with the US and UK units along their supply lines would make us a more effective contributor in overseas deployments. ...

    After years of seeing the press turn factual press releases and interviews into crud so heavily spun and edited that it is close to complete fiction, and use these to create sensational attacks on the prestige and  personel of the CF, it is nice to see them handled so well.  The press...

    My basic martial art background is Karate and Jujitsu, but I have also dabbled in Tai-Chi, Tae Kwan do, Judo, and wrestling.  I have found that a mix of  a striking style and grappling style is the best bet, but the system you choose is not that important.  What is important is that you...

    Soviet doctrine accepted loss ratio's that would get a NATO general court martialed for suggesting.  They never tried to be as good as us, they tried to produce a superior effect with the resources they had.  They could not match our sophistication, so they went with simpler designs that...

    We had one recruit on his QL1 that had consistent problems with his turnout for inspection, he managed to have something unbuttoned, dangling, off center, missing etc every single day, even with half the course checking him over before he left the barracks.  One one memorable day Pte...

    The reality of our forces overseas is that there is no such thing as a safe area.  As the US has discovered in Iraq, and we all have discovered in sunny Afghanistan, it is as likely that a supply convoy, or recovery vehicle may be the first point of contact for an insurgent attack, our...

    I had the interesting experence of being a soldier and student at the same time.  Getting back from an ex days late due to being detatched from my own unit to help some poor sig-less PPCLI out, I had to go straight from Base to class to write an exam, having secured the OK from my OC to go...

    Plus ca change, plus ca meme chose.  I could have described my last ex as rad det cmdr the exact same, and that was back in the '90's.  I hope the kit has changed a bit since then, because my father recognized half of it from when he was a radop in the 50's-60's.

  I like the Spike system, the LAV III would work well with twin Spike mounts, instead of TOW that I suggested earlier.  Spike gives good range, shoot/scoot ability.  The ability to snap shoot, and alter designated target after firing, allows our crews to both haul a$$ and kick it (a good idea...

My objections to the LAV III as our only armoured vehicle would go away if we adopted the twin TOW missiles turret in addition to the chaingun.  The cannon is never going to be a tankbuster, and if the MGS is not an anti-tank platform, then having TOW as part of the weapon mix will give our guys...

    Chopperhead, the problem with the made in Canada imperative, is that we make a small fraction of the spectrum of equipment that we need.  The LAV is grade A kit, made in Canada; but if we expect Bombardier to produce our strategic heavy lift, our armoured force is going to consist of guys...