Recent content by daftandbarmy

Until you're rubbing elbows at the bar with someone you sent to jail, or fined, or are otherwise dealing with for disciplinary/ performance issues of course ;)

The ARes supply chain of qualified people depends on faint hopes, more often than not, while the Reg F enjoys - in contrast - a more or less endless supply of freshly trained/qualified/selected and trained leaders at all levels. Problem children or not A Res Units should not be 'one course...

The lack of depth, quality, consistency and resilience in the ARes leadership succession structure - over the rank of Lieutenant - is likely one of the greatest weaknesses in the whole system.

Currently the more senior roles tend to be filled by 1) whoever happens to be available, and 2) has completed the courses, as opposed to any responsibly competitive process that is familiar to any other large business. The results tend to speak for themselves, sadly ;)

But why bother investing in a massive revenue generating infrastructure - for hundreds of years + - to pay for healthcare, education and social services and defence when you can just go into more debt?

I'm assuming then that these people don't know how to threaten people anonymously ;)

More lost opportunities, dozens of billions of them ... Canada squandering LNG export opportunities: EY In the time Canada took to build one LNG plant, the U.S. built seven, approved 20 The race is on to supply the world with natural gas, but despite having an abundance of it, Canada is...

Never even imagined this might be a thing.... Lawyer and self-described 'crook' lied her way onto a huge criminal fraud trial People really don't like crooked Wall Streeters. One New York woman was so determined to see an ex-Deutsche Bank broker found guilty in a big tax fraud case that she...

"Every country has the government it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre

The North American 'base' system is a legacy of the need to manage a remote, colonial empire, win two world wars (and a Civil War and Indian Wars in the US), and to survive the Cold War - remember 'nuclear dispersion? It's inordinately expensive to maintain, putting punishing pressure on...

And the utility, cost effectiveness and operational need/ efficiency of the whole Eisenhower era, uniquely North American, 'base' system enters the chat ;)

But, if there were more, then you couldn't call it the 'Order of the Brown Nose' ;)