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    C3 Howitzer Replacement

    It's like you said above, its a balance of systems. gun projectiles are still cheaper per round, more versatile, and less likely to be intercepted or jammed. On top of that there's the difference between precision rockets and the mass dumb rocket systems. Finally there's all the OWUAV stuff...
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    South Alberta Light Horse Regiment to amalgamate with larger reserve force

    The latter and riffing off the 1 Brit Deep Recce Strike Bde Cbt Team. I initially had it within the arty bde but decided against that for a host of reasons. You'll have to remember that I come at this by having spent more than a half a decade sitting on the Chief of Reserves and Cadets Council...
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    South Alberta Light Horse Regiment to amalgamate with larger reserve force

    The British army reserve is not the be-all and end-all of the reserve system. Despite having large battalions it is more like the Canadian ResF than one might think. The last time serious reform was looked at there was under their Future Reserves 2020 program. Brit ResF officer production is a...
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    C3 Howitzer Replacement

    I think many of us who were following the ERCA project were afraid that it might be a bridge too far. The nature of the "effects" end of the equation has been changing considerably over the last two years and the delivery capabilities have as well. Once you decide that it's easier for the...
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    South Alberta Light Horse Regiment to amalgamate with larger reserve force

    That really is the fundamental question. You can't have either one side or the other responsible for the process. It needs to be a combination of the two. And that means a heavy commitment by full-timers to the planning process. Believe me it is in the officers' mess and amongst those...
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    South Alberta Light Horse Regiment to amalgamate with larger reserve force

    That is the result of RegF prejudices and a lack of support to ResF units to make them viable. This is entirely a problem of our own making. In the US Marine Corps, things are different. Here's a quote from a RAND study on integration of active and reserve components. There is absolutely no...
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    Justin Trudeau hints at boosting Canada’s military spending

    Unfortunately today's prime minister's closest advisors are of the same ilk as that prime minister's. There are a group of people in the political sphere that are simply Pollyannas. They are the heirs of several generations of peace and prosperity and simply can't conceive of a different...
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    South Alberta Light Horse Regiment to amalgamate with larger reserve force

    Most RSS postings aren't technically ERE unless you look at in the very narrow e.g. RCR etc sense because you are still working in a corps-specific job. RSS postings are great because they take you out of the highly regulated battalion construct and give you the opportunity to manage something...
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    Justin Trudeau hints at boosting Canada’s military spending

    My guess is that there's a bit more to being a member of a ship's company than just the cooking skill set. Not sure how they would handle that. I've always that that the purple trade concept was a bit of a fiction. 🍻
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    Lawyers Allegedly Behaving Badly

    Like everything one has to look at the evidence given before the tribunal in question. Obviously there is a disagreement between the Law Society which did not want to licence him and the appeal panel that heard his appeal from that decision. I'll simply drop the appeal panels decision here to...
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    Justin Trudeau hints at boosting Canada’s military spending

    I agree that we shouldn't. It's just my inexpert opinion that we do. IMHO, we're already at war if you take into effect the cyber attacks which we continuously fend off and when you see the Russian and Chinese and Iranian pressures to extend their domains and economies. With the exceptions...
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    Justin Trudeau hints at boosting Canada’s military spending

    Honestly, I have no idea how bad it is at the coal-face these days but you have to remember that I'm a guy that lived through Trudeau the First's army when we were worse than decimated. The arty lost half of its numbers, we lost an entire brigade and our equipment, for the most part, was...
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    Justin Trudeau hints at boosting Canada’s military spending

    When someone gives you $31 Billion a year, and you spend half of it on salaries, you better have a darn good excuse for saying no. 🍻
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    A Deeply Fractured US

    That said, every individual has the duty to disobey an order from the chain of command that is manifestly unlawful. Determining what is manifestly unlawful, in Canada, is set out in R v Finta [1994] 1 SCR 701 🍻
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    Moscow Theatre Attack - 22 March 2024

    Shades of Oceania and Eurasia and Eastasia! ;)
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