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There has been a number of very good points raised in this thread. The one point overlooked is the political desire. The Regs & ResF have been structured since the 1st big scheme, to support each other.
There is somewhat out dated regs for the call up of ResF, right down to job protection. Until political will takes the structure, blows a century of dust off it, & updates it, we are stuck with the sadly decaying RegF & ResF structure. Kudos to Gen. Hillier, for having the balls to stand up to the politicians, & trying to bring our military status current. Unfortunately though, these 5 & 10 year plans always fall prey to a small bunch of near sighted, deaf, self serving individuals.
It is interesting that in my travels south of the border, that the most common example cited by current & past US military is the Avro Arrow fiasco. They have great respect for our military, even though $10 hookers are treated better by our government.
At any rate there is a great need to re-organize & re-equip our military to bring it into the 21st century.
Personally I think it should start with a RDF, then SSF/SOG, then the main echelons. The ResF should be an integral part so Trg would only reqire several weeks before integration. Regt's & Btn's would have to be brought up to manned strength instead of paper strength. Also we would have to get past the stage of the wheels fell off the ML & pass the rifle, scrounge the ammo. It means that for every operational piece of eqt, 2 more were sitting spare. (what happened to the EMO lines?)
As for Urban warfare, this used to be part of the syllabus & needs to be brought back. Asymetrical warfare how ever needs to be expanded. In short the spokes have to be put back into the wheel.
Here we end up back at political expediency.
cheers
There is somewhat out dated regs for the call up of ResF, right down to job protection. Until political will takes the structure, blows a century of dust off it, & updates it, we are stuck with the sadly decaying RegF & ResF structure. Kudos to Gen. Hillier, for having the balls to stand up to the politicians, & trying to bring our military status current. Unfortunately though, these 5 & 10 year plans always fall prey to a small bunch of near sighted, deaf, self serving individuals.
It is interesting that in my travels south of the border, that the most common example cited by current & past US military is the Avro Arrow fiasco. They have great respect for our military, even though $10 hookers are treated better by our government.
At any rate there is a great need to re-organize & re-equip our military to bring it into the 21st century.
Personally I think it should start with a RDF, then SSF/SOG, then the main echelons. The ResF should be an integral part so Trg would only reqire several weeks before integration. Regt's & Btn's would have to be brought up to manned strength instead of paper strength. Also we would have to get past the stage of the wheels fell off the ML & pass the rifle, scrounge the ammo. It means that for every operational piece of eqt, 2 more were sitting spare. (what happened to the EMO lines?)
As for Urban warfare, this used to be part of the syllabus & needs to be brought back. Asymetrical warfare how ever needs to be expanded. In short the spokes have to be put back into the wheel.
Here we end up back at political expediency.
cheers