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Are you saying that the USMC and USN are viewed as competitors? The authors certainly do not refer to those services as competitors. They say that the nature of the operating environment make cooperation with the USAF, USN and USMC very important. Yes, Jointness is critical to operate in the...

I realize I didn't really address the questions about how frequently an infantry officer (or any junior officer in the Army really) goes to the field and goes on deployment. I will offer a representative view of a unit's tempo and how a new officer might fit in. Your mileage will vary... Army...

There are two related concepts here: rank and appointment. We have our ranks and those are fairly straight-forward. Then we have appointments - those are also very important but sometimes a little more fuzzy. Generally, rank transcends organizations while appointment is more important within an...

OK. I am not an Infantry Officer, but until a serving Infantry Officer comes along I will offer my perspective as an Armour Officer that has served as a sub-unit commander in an Infantry Battalion for two years. Day-to-day responsibilities is a remarkably hard question to answer. In theory...

It is difficult to discuss in good faith when you use oblique comments, but I will try. The Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) and its constituent elements execute missions in accordance with the direction from the government. This is unremarkable in a democracy but also absolutely fundamental to...

English dictionaries will say what they will, but in military planning, a constraint is something that we must do, while a restraint is something that we cannot do. Both constraints and restraints are limitations on our freedom of action but couched a different way. Being assigned a specific...

The role of these vehicles is to provide organic mobility to light battalions when they go to Latvia as part of a surge. They should not be seen as a fighting vehicle, but rather a way for the light battalion to move out of contact.

Just to add to Stoker’s response, RIMPAC has a HADR (Humanitarian Assistance Disaster Relief) portion for which an AOPS would be a good fit. The AOPS was part of that portion this year.

Sure. Some reservists are civil servants in their full-time employment outside the Canadian Armed Forces. Doesn't change my point that CAF members are not civil servants.

What is a uniformed civil servant? Members of the Canadian Armed Forces are not civil servants.

I am somewhat outside my lane here, but I did serve on an embarked Canadian Fleet Staff for about six weeks as part of a major NATO exercise. A Canadian Commodore and his staff was one of two TG commanders for the maritime side of the exercise (there were over 30 ships involved split into North...

Aide de Camp style duties

Again, I leave the determination of "how" to the experts. Like Oddball from Kelly's Heroes, I only ride'em, I don't know what makes'em work. I don't think that Hamas if firing any long-rod penetrators. Pre-war, the Russians were claiming that their APS was doubling their effective RHA rating...

I think that there is a bone fide requirement for some form of CUAS on each tank, but it should be limited to self-defence against what are being called kamikaze drones. Whether this would be EW (wouldn't work against all systems) or something more kinetic would be something to examine. In my...

For a Canadian perspective I recommend Arthur Gullachsen's An Army of Never-ending Strength. I made a thread a couple of years ago here: An Army of Never-Ending Strength: Reinforcing the Canadians in NW Europe 44-45 The Canadian Army had a very robust personnel and equipment replacement...

In other news, C Sqn RCD won the Canadian Army Trophy (CAT) tank gunnery competition conducted in Latvia last month. There were teams from seven nations participating. This was the first time in 33 years that the CAT was conducted. A team from the UK came second, while a team from Italy came...

OK. I am not a navy type, but I will try here. AOPS is for presence and surveillance, but I don't think it is meant as the recce function for strike assets. The armament it has allows it to perform the OPS function on missions like Op CARIBBE. In our Arctic it performs presence and...

I don't think they would be sub-hunting, but it could be useful to be able to tell if someone has been somewhere doing something on our seabed/in our EEZ? That could be one application of a UUV in a AOPS role, not to mention recovery operations etc. UAS would extend the surveillance radius...

Non-RCN person here, but the AOPS strikes me as a useful ship. The RCN is an important aspect of maintaining our arctic sovereignty. I was working on the Arctic file for the Army, and one way to view our arctic is indeed as an archipelago. All the services have an important role to play and that...

Well, there is a Managed Readiness Plan and the Army Operating Plan has chapters on readiness along with an associated Enhanced Warfighting Proficiency Directive. We look at readiness through a lens of personnel, equipment, training and sustainment. "How ready" forces have to be depends on the...