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Just accept that screwing is inherent to the human condition. Sometimes it is pleasant and sometimes it isn't. Co-operation generally makes it less unpleasant.
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Just accept that screwing is inherent to the human condition. Sometimes it is pleasant and sometimes it isn't. Co-operation generally makes it less unpleasant.
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It’s also linked to the USAF taking the lesson learned from the first Persian Gulf war that Air Power, applied against a center of gravity, can solve all military problems.
Even though, in that war, we had to use ground power in order to meet our aims (to wit, expel Saddam Hussein from Kuwait).
The Canadian Air Force, as an organization, has wholly bought into the USAF way of thinking, even though it is as much used in US inter service budget wars as anything else. Right down to all air assets should be owned by an Air Component Commander (which, in my opinion, makes no sense for organic air). This includes a robust contingent that get all of their operational planning and strategic thinking skills at Maxwell AFB, which is probably not a center of joint and combined excellence.
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Do you think that Sweden or UAE or Indonesia or South Korea are wringing their hands saying to themselves, "I wonder how those Canadians are planning on screwing us. All they want is access to our market of XX million people, they want out products and our resources and they want our research money."
Sometimes I think Canadians are the most neurotic people on this plant.
I thought we were buying the Aussie Arctic Over-the-Horizon Radar system. This should in itself calm the US and their NORAD complaints. Couple that with the Remaining DEW site radars up north and add a few (lots of these) Interceptor missiles and we have a winner.
They buy natural resources, some refined some not. We buy the unrefined stuff back as finished products. We buy more dollar value from them then they do us.
The question one needs to ask is what is a long term aspect of a expanded trade deal with a country who has made some top notch pieces of equipment. How can we use this to build our industries stronger. Sweden is only a country of 10,600,000 people. That is not a big market for us in trade aspect. But in the tech side and what they have access to directly through aerospace, defense, manufacturing markets I would think it is a partnership we should be looking at for a long term prospects.
Who really knows, the US is the largest trading partner of many nations, we have to either find other ways to sustain markets or we need to bow down to them entirely.
I think once further deals are made outside of the Traditional US/ Canada trade in tech. The US will warm back up to us if were not providing or putting as much effort into things such as the little black box that allows all the other bigger black boxes to work together.
(I think part of the F35 issues with the newest upgrades is the US defense trying to do it alone without external assistance). Canadian Tech has always been a leading aspect of making things work outside of what was expected. Allowing function and operation of equipment in a way no one expected.
Sell us short on what do provide and what we can provide and we will keep down the same path. Allow us to expand and see the growth.
Quirky
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Has anyone asked the RCAF if operating the Gripen alongside the F-35 is even possible given the personnel and logistics requirements/shortfalls? Hangar construction has been started on the basis of 88 F-35s. Just where the hell does the LPC think we will put the Gripens? This crap just doesn't happen overnight with our own self-inflicted regulatory policies.
