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More, faster. https://ukdefencejournal.org.uk/shipbuilder-hii-expands-unmanned-vessel-factory-by-25-percent/

RN's XLUAV Excalibur successfully launched a US Mk48 heavyweight torpedo. https://en.defence-ua.com/weapon_and_tech/excalibur_underwater_drone_can_launch_mk_48_torpedoes_offering_potential_way_to_finish_off_russias_black_sea_fleet-19910.html XLUAV Excalibur is the model for the Type 93 UUV...

The Liberal Party does not want a liberal economy, a free market economy. They want a controlled economy, a dirigiste economy, a Colbertiste economy. They want a thicket of laws that prevent free movement. They want to decide who goes through the thicket and when and where it happens. They...

https://ukdefencejournal.org.uk/bae-wins-four-year-deal-to-support-uk-artillery/ The 105 isn't going away. BAE restarting 105mm barrel production in the UK for the L119.

More on the AMPV 30s supplied to the US Army by BAE on their own nickel. It sounds as if BAE has supplied a total of 8 such vehicles for the US Army to play with. https://ukdefencejournal.org.uk/us-army-tests-30mm-ampv-infantry-fighting-vehicles/ "The two 30mm vehicles bring the number of...

https://www.airandspaceforces.com/northern-command-arctic-pacific-european/ https://ukdefencejournal.org.uk/british-general-takes-command-of-nato-atlantic-headquarters/...

The start of an acoustic picket line in the GIUK gap https://www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2026/09/worlds-first-acoustic-picket-line-at-repmus26/ And Denmark bolstering surveillance in its home waters - constraining the Baltic...

We don't teach patriotism.

A bit of tension is productive. If you have to argue your case everyday then you are less likely to be surprised when you do your final presentations.

How about hiring civilian PMs that have had some time in uniform and do have a sense of the operating environment? That woul fit with the notion of rapid turnover in the ranks ... a desirable characteristic for a larger, lower cost force.

IMO they have already acted credibly since 2022 with the Brits giving nuclear cover to the Swedes and Finns while they transitioned into NATO and JEF giving cover to (edit: the UK and) Poland when they allied with Ukraine. Add in their donations of weapons and money and their domestic actions...

Kevin, read the preceding. Not my statement. The statement made was that we shouldn't be there if we aren't willing to commit lives. A bit of a tautology but the point is that foreign policy comes at a cost. We hire governments to make those decisions. They have to justify them. A position...

US settles with Greenland and Denmark - and consequently JEF, NATO and the EU - in the Atlantic Arctic US settles with Japan and South Korea in the Pacific Arctic. https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202609/1370992.shtml Where is Canada? What is our Big Beautiful Deal going to look like?

Shocker! RAF officer passes P Company. https://www.raf.mod.uk/news/articles/raf-servicewoman-makes-history-by-passing-p-company/ And she was a woman.

"We shouldn't be there." Why are we anywhere but here? Being someplace else is a big ask that the government has to justify. The calculus is different if it is sending people that are contracted to do the job instead of people that are conscripted. .... "They are here!" That is a different...

Well, what are you trading those lives to secure? Goods or people? And do the people want to be secured, liberated? Some fights are worth having. Agreed. But how much can be achieved without having to expend our kids?

I am surprised it took this long.

That someplace could be reducing the spec and buying the first thing that is available and starting to use it.

I got a chuckle the other week or so ago when Carney alluded to the National Policy of Sir John A as the effective counter to McKInley's tariffs so beloved by Trump. First of all the Liberals of Laurier fought the National Policy and argued for free trade. Starting a pattern that continued...

My opinion is similar on Project 2025 and Trump. The Project predates and will outlast Trump. I believe that Project 2025 was inevitable in the sense that a new plan was in order, the existing plan (Atlantic Charter et al), being widely held as unsustainable. As to the relative merits of...