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Russia completely misread Ukraine. They thought they would roll over them in a few days and the payoff would be huge. Going to war with NATO would be a different story. They've got no end point in the West. They're not going to drive to the Atlantic. Could they possibly take the Baltic...

I agree that Russia isn't going to go away and is unlikely to stop being a thorn in the West's side. As I noted, our Brigade in Latvia plays an important role in deterring Russia from a conventional military attack against the smaller NATO members along its border. It serves a political role...

My thinking lies between you and @FJAG. I agree that Russia is an extremely unlikely conventional threat to NATO as long as NATO remains united and maintains a credible military deterrent. European NATO is simply too large physically, economically and demographically for a declining Russia to...

You are correct that the US sees threats to its interests both at home and abroad. You can see the nature of those threats directly in the US NDS: The threats the US is concerned about are primarily focused on illegal immigration, narcotics, unfair trade, terrorism and threats to their...

That version of "Fortress North America" describes an economic integration of Canada, the US and Mexico to compete together in the global market, not a defence posture. I'd argue that regardless of whether we aim to compete globally on our own or together as a North American block they both...

I'm 100% with @Lumber here. You keep trying to design someone else's military. Due to our unique geographic location and the fact that we are located adjacent to and deeply economically/politically intertwined with a global nuclear superpower (despite the current occupant of the White House's...

The question is how likely are enemy ships to come within 1,000km of Canada's coastline and how likely are we to have a HIMARS battery deployed in the correct spot? For the (projected) price of a single LBASM (Increment 2 PrSM) you can purchase 2-4 Joint Strike Missiles (air launched NSMs) that...

But where I think UXV's could be really useful for Canada would be as widely distributed sensor nodes to detect any ship/subs approaching our coast so that aircraft can take care of them. The bonus would be that UXV's designed as sensor nodes are a lot cheaper than UXVs designed to be...

HIMARS can launch the Precision Strike Missile - Increment 2 PrSM is the LBASM (Land-based Anti-Ship Missile) and is due to be fielded in 2028. Each HIMARS can launch two PrSM

Sweden is procuring a BvS10-based MSHORAD vehicle that uses the same RBS 70 NG missile that our forces in Latvia are using. This set-up is also shown in the video mounted on a variety of light vehicles so could definitely be mounted on a LAV and potentially on the TAPV. The BvS10 platform also...

So if the hostilities with Iran have been terminated, then I presume if they resume it will be considered by the Trump Administration as a "new" conflict (since the original one was already over) so the clock will start all over at Zero again.

I'd love to know how a non-resident made it through the recruiting process and into basic in THREE MONTHS

An interesting combo, but I bet they'd have a hell of a water polo team!

The standard K239 Chunmoo is significantly larger than HIMARS having dual launch pods and is not transportable by C-130 which I think is a significant negative for an expeditionary Army like ours...and for the Arctic/Coastal defence role in particular. However, according to Wikipedia they...

Their big profits are on the content portions of their portfolios....MLSE in particular for Rogers. The infrastructure/service delivery portions are not where they are making the money. You don't propose to eliminate 10,000 positions in your company (excluding...surprise, surprise...the...

More oil on the market means lower prices for everyone. "Drill, Baby, Drill" to maximize volume over price per barrel.

Well the obvious solution to the economies of scale problem of splitting the submarine order is to get 12 of each! ;)

While it would be nice if Airbus had an AEW aircraft (and an MPA) to give us commonality across our heavy fleets, we've got the MRTT's and we've got the P-8's. To me it would make sense to go with the E-7 for the AEW for commonality of supply chains with the P-8's for many of the base...

Curious to know what your thoughts are on this.