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  1. quadrapiper

    AOR Replacement & the Joint Support Ship (Merged Threads)

    Could see an argument for a few federally-owned Pickups of the Sea LSTs, or something akin to the West Coast-standard coastal freighters with landing ramps. Not necessarily CAF (maybe CFAV, maybe CCG, maybe someone breaks out all the CCG roles into separate fleets, whatever) but available to...
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    Trump administration 2024-2028

    No idea of US law, however the only errors committed were by ICE. While immediate recourse to lethal force might be overkill, Congress has right of access. This is absolute. If the Rep had turned up with a dozen goons and forced entry through beating up ICE agents, there would still only be...
  3. quadrapiper

    Trump administration 2024-2028

    How skid-prone is 70ish tons of tank on a steel plate?
  4. quadrapiper

    The War in Ukraine

    How much of that is driven by straightforward greed, and how much would disappear if those nations didn't feel a need to appease Moscow?
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    Liberal (Minority/Majority) Government 2025 - ???

    VA should be an autopilot portfolio! Its inputs writ large (w CAF members at x point in their careers, including y doing things likely to cause damage and z who have suffered some form of trauma) and small (Cpl Bloggins with [specific mental and physical health issues] is releasing in three...
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    Liberal (Minority/Majority) Government 2025 - ???

    It also puts all those shiny new MPs in a position to be in their ridings for a few months, with at least some interaction with constituents for whatever that's worth in shaping subsequent legislation, committee work, etc.
  7. quadrapiper

    Informing the Army’s Future Structure - CAMO Discussion

    Naaaaaa who needs one of those? Especially, to accommodate current approaches and demands from both the Reserve and Cadet organizations, a job that allows you to devote significant daytime weekday time and entire summers to the A-day role? I work an arts gig that doesn't follow Mon-Fri over...
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    New Canadian Shipbuilding Strategy

    I did say almost all, as distinct from Russia's European and Asian neighbours. Are subs still able to pull that sort of approach?
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    New Canadian Shipbuilding Strategy

    Surface ASW means open ocean work and helicopters, and maybe mothershpped uncrewed things, all of which impose certain size requirements. Nobody in their right mind is looking at a SACKVILLE 2025 as a reasonable deep sea combatant, and almost all of Canada's ASW business will be happening either...
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    Canada's tanks

    Half-serious adjacent question: would breaking everything up into single-battalion units be helpful to the Army's internal politics?
  11. quadrapiper

    TKMS Type 212CD (Victoria class replacement megathread)

    Would one of the more crapulous CPFs travelling up and down the BC coast as a training ship be useful?
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    Trump administration 2024-2028

    What abilities does the Supreme Court have to deputize?
  13. quadrapiper

    Political impacts of Ukraine war

    Audible (and ideally visible) air defense activity starting a few minutes in to the event would be good; bonus points if there's something that can blow up on the horizon visible from Red Square.
  14. quadrapiper

    Trump administration 2024-2028

    On the other hand, a Congress that gets a taste for hitting the "nice try, next!" button as far as presidents wouldn't be the worst thing regardless of party.
  15. quadrapiper

    The RCAF's Next Generation Fighter (CF-188 Replacement)

    All the meaningful ones already are. Any further increase in domestic shipbuilding would require building new yards (IIRC all the current ones have maxed out their footprints). Which, yes please, but a) there's no extra people (though let's see if US shipbuilding tradespeople might want to...
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    Government hints at boosting Canada’s military spending

    Comes to mind that a bunch of happy post-short-contract types, both NCM and officer, would help with the whole "connecting the CAF with Canadians" thing. Dated archetype: a City type with a regimental tie, and regimental ties.
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    Trump administration 2024-2028

    The video of that student activist being picked up by ICE a little while ago seemed ripe for that sort of response, too: a bunch of random guys surrounding someone on the street feels like exactly the sort of scenario a number of US firearms owners worry about and arm themselves to respond to.
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    U.S. Annexing Canada (split fm Liberal Minority thread)

    The personality of the parties' offerings for PM is as much a part of the platform as X million to one project or another: what are you, party, intending to put in charge of the country, and in charge of implementing your grand platform? Do they seem at least vaguely intelligent and independent...
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