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Is it a legitimate Canadian job?
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Is it a legitimate Canadian job?
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The Scandinavians seem to be busy against the Russians on our Right Flank.
The Americans seem to be busy against the Russians and Chinese on our Left Flank
And we seem to engage the Russians overhead occasionally.
NORAD detects, tracks and intercepts Russian and PRC aircraft operating in the Alaska ADIZ
NORAD detected, tracked, and intercepted two Russian TU-95 and two PRC H-6 military aircraft operating in the Alaska Air Defense Identification Zone (ADIZ) on July 24, 2024. NORAD fighter jets fromwww.norad.mil
“Overhead” is still pretty left-flank-ish, geographically speaking. That one was intercepted by F-16s, F-35s, and CF-18s.
You misunderstand me.But we are still expected to show up, if only for moral support.
You misunderstand me.
The CF-18s, and the Canadians in Alaskan Region, Western Air Defence Sector, Eastern Air Defence Sector, and NORAD HQ aren’t just there for moral support.
No doubt -
But in 1970 Germany was the main political thrust. Norway was a sideshow. The Army followed the politicians and paid exactly as much attention to it as the politicians wanted. Germany, 1 Canadian Air Division and 4 CMBG (1 Cdn Div) was the main thrust.
At the time of the Beatty paper we could have shifted focus to the North.
I still believe that that would have created a more useful post-Cold-War force.
Except we had already shit the bed about CAST in Norway (Brave Lion) beforethe "Beatty paper""Challenge and Commitment, A Defence Policy for Canada" was issued. And though it was only two short years before the Wall fell, the White Paper and a lot of project planning that emanated from it was basing the main effort on "Central Europe is the geographic focus of the wider contest between East and West. It is the centre of gravity in the balance of power. The greater concentration of of military power is found there. . . . is not necessarily the most likely place for conventional conflict to begin, . . . but it would quickly become the decisive battlefield". We hadn't won the Cold War, yet; that was still to be realized.
To somehow suggest that "The Army" was only focused on Germany because "politicians" wanted it so, gives more credit to the BGHs at NDHQ than they deserve.
Except we had already shit the bed about CAST in Norway (Brave Lion) beforethe "Beatty paper""Challenge and Commitment, A Defence Policy for Canada" was issued. And though it was only two short years before the Wall fell, the White Paper and a lot of project planning that emanated from it was basing the main effort on "Central Europe is the geographic focus of the wider contest between East and West. It is the centre of gravity in the balance of power. The greater concentration of of military power is found there. . . . is not necessarily the most likely place for conventional conflict to begin, . . . but it would quickly become the decisive battlefield". We hadn't won the Cold War, yet; that was still to be realized.
To somehow suggest that "The Army" was only focused on Germany because "politicians" wanted it so, gives more credit to the BGHs at NDHQ than they deserve.
Good thing the West isn't "at war"...The spooks are busy....
Russia on mission to cause mayhem on UK streets, warns MI5
Russia's intelligence agency has been on a mission to generate "sustained mayhem on British and European streets", the head of MI5 has said.
Giving his annual update on security threats faced by the UK, Ken McCallum said GRU agents had carried out "arson, sabotage and more dangerous actions conducted with increasing recklessness" in Britain after the UK backed Ukraine in its war with Russia.
MI5 had also responded to 20 plots backed by Iran since 2022, he said, although he added the majority of its work still mostly involved Islamist extremism followed by extreme right-wing terrorism.
The complex mix of terror-related threats and threats from nation states meant MI5 had "one hell of a job on its hands", he warned.
In a wide-ranging speech, he said:
There was a "dizzying range of beliefs and ideologies" MI5 had to deal with, he told the briefing at MI5's counter-terrorism operations centre in London.
- Young people were increasingly being drawn into online extremism, with 13% of those investigated for terrorism involvement aged under 18
- A total of 43 late-stage plots involving firearms and explosives to commit "mass murder" in the UK had been foiled since 2017
- The number of state-threat investigations by MI5 had increased by 48%
- Counter-terrorism work remained split between "75% Islamist extremism, 25% extreme right-wing terrorism"
"The first 20 years of my career here were crammed full of terrorist threats.
"We now face those alongside state-backed assassination and sabotage plots, against the backdrop of a major European land war," he said.
The UK's "leading role" in supporting Ukraine means "we loom large in the fevered imagination of Putin's regime" and further acts of aggression on UK soil should be expected, he warned.
The UK's current terror threat level is substantial - meaning an attack is likely.
Russia on ‘mission to cause mayhem’ on British streets, warns MI5 head
In a wide-ranging speech, Ken McCallum also revealed MI5 had responded to 20 plots backed by Iran since 2022.www.bbc.com
Israel has left ChatThe Establishment would rather deal with other Establishments.
The ultimate expression of the arrangement:
Thou shalt not assassinate a head of state.
Bad form, donchano?
Not sure I agree.The Establishment would rather deal with other Establishments.
The ultimate expression of the arrangement:
Thou shalt not assassinate a head of state.
Bad form, donchano?
Not sure I agree.
Western governments seem eager to go after the Al-Quaeda’s, the ISIL’s and other non-state terror actors.
But when states like Russia, Iran and China are waging war on us in the grey zone, we seem oblivious, incurious or just wilfully blind.