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I would think 2 Div and 1 Div (aka 3 Div) respectively. Which begs the question about when all those transfers of name and MOOs/CFOOs etc are taking place. 🍻

I don't think we North Americans run "all-in" armies anymore. Even y'all. The new world order and the Ukraine experience have changed that. The new world order is limiting what we're prepared to do because of the cost; and Ukraine has taught us that attrition rates in Class A equipment is...

Here's my $0.02 on that. Yes, you need that "reserve" equipment but you also need partially trained "reserve" personnel. That means that your "reserve" equipment need not necessarily be sitting in a war stocks warehouse. That's a purely peacetime bean counting concept. Much of it can be with...

I've tried, unsuccessfully to find a definitive Burnham position on national defence. Just the usual rhetoric, but in light of the recent resignation of Minister of Defence - nothing much. Anyone come across anything worthwhile? :unsure:

This is one of my disappointments about Aimpoint 1. Aimpoint 1 reorganizes the artillery by creating what IMHO is a perfectly suitable artillery structure for the 1980s Cold War fight. Fd regiments with SP batteries with their integrated FOOs and STA (with a tiny UAV capability) and a divisional...

This is an interesting development. The byproduct of Chinese entertainment of mass drone formation flying? One would think such curtains would have to have a way to deal with the relatively short battery life of drones. 🍻

He was both as a lawyer and as a judge when I practiced in Manitoba. Very well respected. 🍻

The They're spending less time in office than the average Canadian general. :cool:

There are several counters to that. Firstly, we do not commit a division to anywhere else than NATO's northern flank and we equip, organize and train our expeditionary forces for that and only that role and we include the current multinational brigade in that construct; Secondly, two brigades...

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Here are three links to help muddy the waters. Have fun 🍻

And yet we have to plan for tomorrow on our best guess what that will bring assisted by a programmed flexibility to allow us to react when it doesn't. I guess that I'm one of those who advocates for lighter divisions in order to make them more manoeuvrable. My analysis of Latvia is unburdened...

You might be interpreting what I said wrong. I think that the NDA has everything it needs to build a well functioning reserve force and only needs some very minor tweaking to do that. Almost everything else is regulations, directives and policies which can be effected by the MND, the CDS and...

Indeed. Here's an article from those days that gives a brief overview of the times. The Interim BCT eventually developed into the SBCT (while infantry and armour divisions evolved? into IBCT and ABCT holding commands.) I've always found the concurrency of the Interim BCT and the Canadian...

It was a strange time which, I think was primarily driven by lack of funds on the one hand, and what I consider a flawed vision for what future conflict would look like and which vision was developed from the Bosnia experiences. 4 CMBG was gone; the model for deployment were air transportable...

No doubt. But it extends beyond those sensors in that recce should no longer be pure recce, but an agency that can fight on a broader, more porous battlefield. In effect the deep area well forward of the effects that are the main battle fought by the division's manoeuvre brigades. Exactly, but...

I don't think that I'm missing the point at all. MDTF's original concept was to be a theatre level resource designed to use deep fires to take out opposing A2/AD systems to allow penetration of enemy defensive sectors. The MDEB was the sensor/analysis function and the rocket battalion its...

ADATS was actually modernized several times - including updating its computer systems to digital. There was a project as of 2005 to replace ADATS from an M113 chassis to a LAV chassis, which was called the Multi-Mission Effects Vehicle. Again, this was tied in with the MGS project and the DFU...

The focus in 2004 changed from AD to AT with the Direct Fire Unit experimentation that went on with the LdSH which continued to operate its Leopard 1s (as stand ins for the soon to arrive LAV MGS) together with a TOW Under Armour company from the PPCLI and an ADATS battery from 4 AD Regt. In the...

:giggle: My eighteen cans of Lager M109 arrived today. The cans look even better than the above one. Makes my old SP Bty heart pound. The funny part is we didn't hear the delivery arrive. Some time latter I opened my front door to go out and there they were. Three sixpacks in little open...