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There are several good points above that need addressing. 1) to get candidates make their education/training free and locate it in their own communities (that means the larger urban centre community colleges) tie that to obligatory terms of service with the RegF or PRes followed by the SuppRes...

We couldn't agree more. I tend to see things from a filter of my last three RegF years with an M109 battery. We had tracks, lots of them, but they stayed on the road because I had a lot of techs working for me and we had the parts and did the crew maintenance as well. My guess is that I probably...

I think that you'll find that the army will be turning to 2 Div matters in a large way starting early this fall. Plans should fall out after that. 🍻

The problem is that the current concept does not provide adequate war stocks. The second problem is that there is only so much money to go around. There needs to be a program that both allows the cycling of older but still useable vehicles into war stocks while new vehicles are introduced in a...

Let's hope there are folks in the administration and in industry who will push on this and make it happen. 🍻

Will this do 🤮? :giggle:

All of that plus the leadership of the division is rotational so every third rotation Canada should assume leadership. We've already had a deputy div commander role. I'm not 100% certain as to the structure there. Estonia and Lithuania each have their own divisions reporting to MNC-NE...

One of my favourite movies. If I recollect though, notwithstanding the clothes, Buster was a cheerful and competent gun fighter who eventually goes to heaven. So there is really no analogy beyond the shirt. :giggle:

I don't see any reason as to why not. Be aware though that Rules 146 to 148 bar reprisals outright against protected people, objects and in non-international conflicts. Reprisals have been rarely used and, in these days of the proliferation of social media and high-level disinformation...

That's a fair bit bigger than the CB90s Norway uses now. Here's a video on the topic of the JCC. 🍻

It's not against the law of armed conflict. It comes under the heading of reprisals. 🍻

I expect that this is why 50% of the evaluation weight went for the long-term maintenance, repair and operational support plans over the decades-long lifespan. One can speculate all one wants and even look to other contracts, but at the end of the day we're all just spit balling here about a...

I have a hard time seeing as to why Canada hasn't already UOR'd several Skynex based systems if for no other purpose then to evaluate them while providing point defences in Latvia. We had previously operated Oerlikon systems with CFE in that role in combination with Javelin and ADATS missiles...

That's fundamentally wrong as a statement of absolutes. Just look at Germany and Japan vis a vis the allies - or France and Poland vis a vis Germany. Each was involved in total war with its adversaries and yet now they are allies across the broad parts of their population. Given the right...

I agree with what you've said. I even agree with this part. When the discussion gets to "boots on the ground" vs "fires" the advocates of "fires" are usually trying to convince themselves, and others, that they can bring about victory with only minor casualties to their own forces. Often this...

That spanned closer to 40 years from the 1950s to the 1990. We had a fairly robust air defence in the 1950s and 60s until the "bomber threat" was eclipsed by ICBMs where a cost-effective technological defence was unavailable. I'm not sure what the point is here other than some governments...

There is so much stuff happening at the ground (or sea)/air interface that it's hard to determine who should make what decisions. There's no doubt that the army made some bad ones in the past but mostly within the framework of very limited funding with no-win decisions required. Neither the...

Funny. My first thought - after everyone was fine - was: "that's gonna be a lot of kit written off." :giggle:

Interesting what motivates one in life sometimes. As a FOO, one of the things that gets mentioned during training is to blend in with the infantry you work with and being a guy with a pistol and radio makes you stand out. Well, you can't get rid of the radio; as a FOO team your signaller...