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Lots of detail Infanteer. A comment on how many maneuvere elements you have in your model. I've always seen command and control as being built on a series of 3 or 4 maneuvere groups - 3 platoons in a company, 3 sections + weps det in a platoon,4 fireteams in a section, etc. This ratio, as I...

I think there is a lot of merit to bypassing 'hard point's in the enemy lines, at least for the initial attack. Why waste time, ammo, and lives attacking a bunker when it can be avoided, cut off, isolated, and dealt with at leisure? This was a doctrime used by the American on a theatre level in...

Col. Fraser is an amazing man, a great asset to our regiment and the Army as a whole. He came out on Cougar Salvo a few years back, but insisted in joining one of the rifle sections and did the whole 3 day final ex, FIBUA in Ft Lewis, including the Chinook assault, just like a trooper. He's...

I always wondered about Canadian op tempo vs American or British op tempo. US forces certainly seem to be busy in the past few years, and the Brits, from what I can tell, have always maintained an unreal operational tempo. Anyone have any solid info on US/UK units and their overseas time? And...

www.ambafrance-us.org/atoz/legion/index.asp Go for it, they're recruiting now....  ;D

Where is the CF officer French language instruction done? At St. Jean itself, or another facility in Quebec? When do Anglophone Officers generally get sent to French school - after Phase 2? Whenever is convenient? Whats the teaching/course structure and language standards there like?

But Russia can easily defeat Ballistic Missile Defence. The BMD is only intended to stop a few missiles fired by a rogue state with a limited arsenal. Russia and China (UK and France too probably)  could overwhelm the system rather easily.

Curious if any of those here with experience with UN missions have any comment on this story? From the second-hand info I've gathered (talking to people, books, accounts) this type of behaviour is fairly common on UN ops and by UN personnel. Does this point a further erosion of UN influence and...

I did a Refugee class last year, and it was amazing the stuff that Europe does to keep people out. European officials are placed at airports around the third world to screen passengers for illegal immigrants. No visa, no flight= no refugees. Visas are almost impossible to get without money or...

Excellent! Now.... the Griffon? And perhaps the non-existent troop transport helicopter?

I'm going to wade in here.... My opinions on these matters have already been well articulated by others. However, I must commend MMI on her attempt to take into account other points of view, and her initiative to find military personnel to give these views. We disagree on a lot, but face it...

Why the need to begun relationships with potentially dodgy (ie, politically unpalatable given recent histories) S American/ SE Asia/African states? Do the Brits (Belize & Brunei), French (Guyana), Aussies, or Americans (Okinawa) suddenly not like us? Jungle training sounds like a blast, and...

Fair enough, not exactly the best source for info. I still have to believe, however, that the combined weight (land mass, resources, population, GDP, military forces) of the Arab combatant states in 1948 was greater than that of Israel, either in pure numbers or in equipment, material, and...

I know my camp in Bosnia was resupplied with food directly from a civilian contractor (ie, the Dutch guy and his semi who arrived every week or so). Not to mention the fact the army has already contracted fitness instruction (massive mistake in my opinion), welfare and morale stuff, and much of...

I quickly Googled the 1948 war and found the following numbers for the 1948 war, and please correct me if these are inaccurate. It appears the Israeli's were slightly outnumbered, fighting from a tiny territorial area against much larger foes. And I believe some of the Arab troops, such as the...

Wasn't the Royal Navy going to bill us for recovery (non-SAR/first aid/rescue) costs for towing our broken ship back to port? Saving the sailors was free, but the tub boat home wasn't. If Foreign Affairs is supposed to pay for all of her costs, what about everyone else in the world who rocks...

In the same vein, however, why doesn't the CF take a harder stand in finding and prosecuting drug users in the CF? In my 5 years in the Reserves and 1 year attached to 1VP (short and limited experience, I realize), I never saw anyone take a drug test. I do, however, recall the interesting sight...

Africa did not just become this way on their own. True, they were undeveloped, by our standards, for much of history. This could be attributed to a number of natural factors: lack of navigable rivers, a long, straight coastline rather than inlets and penninsulas like Europe that percluded...

Actually it was the Federal Communications Commission that has made a number of rulings that made it clear that a movie like SPR - which has swearing, violence, and gore - is inappropriate for prime time TV. Some ABC affiliates chose to carry it, some chose not too. The ones that chose not too...

UBC in Vancouver, Political Science - a fair chunk of which has been paid for with Militia money, an overseas tour, and education reimbursement.