Justin Trudeau hints at boosting Canada’s military spending

I'll believe it when I see it.

 

[FJAG]

A well paid and treated (by third world standards) Foreign Legion based outside of Canada. There is your added bayonets. Teach the Canadian troops to be the specialists to provide the bayonets with more teeth, comms, etc.

You can't get me again on this one. I floated that as an idea after one of @Kirkhill's earlier posts and was roundly bitch-slapped.

Fool me once . . .

 

[Fishbone Jones]

419 pages in, it's time to remind everyone.

Justin Trudeau is a pathological liar and doesn't do anything for Canada unless he gets something out of it, including his globalist agenda.

 

[OldSolduer]

You are correct. This is the way.

Very Mandolorian.....

However I beg to differ. If you want to have a seat at the table you put your money where your mouth is. Yes it is a risk, but it needs to be considered.

 

[Halifax Tar]

Very Mandolorian.....

However I beg to differ. If you want to have a seat at the table you put your money where your mouth is. Yes it is a risk, but it needs to be considered.

Respectfully, there is more to having a place at the table than having grunts in holes in far off places.

There were more dangerous jobs than being infantry in WW2 and they were in the air or on or under the sea. And id like to point out that those most dangerous of jobs in WW2 we're dedicated to logistics or destroying logistics.

 

[KevinB]

Respectfully, there is more to having a place at the table than having grunts in holes in far off places.

There were more dangerous jobs than being infantry in WW2 and they were in the air or on or under the sea. And id like to point out that those most dangerous of jobs in WW2 we're dedicated to logistics or destroying logistics.

Boots on the ground however are a concrete example of commitment to a host nation.

That cannot be dismissed or downplayed.

 

[lenaitch]

Funny enough, concentrating on Air forces and Naval forces was the plan of William Lyon Mackenzie King in WWII and it is only the fact that all European powers dissolved before Germany, except the UK, that forced his hand into building up the army too.

I'm not so sure he even wanted that. He was hoping the CATP and material production would safely keep Canadian home and Quebec quiet.

 

[lenaitch]

Probably should have been done years ago.
The whole PET Rips Off Canada should have been a large refinery program as well.

Agree. A drop of crude or a raw log should not leave this country.

 

[Halifax Tar]

Boots on the ground however are a concrete example of commitment to a host nation.

That cannot be dismissed or downplayed.

I simply don't buy that.

 

[Kirkhill]

Agree. A drop of crude or a raw log should not leave this country.

That may be our only option now that Trump has said he doesn't need us.

Good news - we now have lots of cheap energy available. With automation our manufacturing costs should be low and competitive.

 

[Kirkhill]

I simply don't buy that.

Messrs Pitts and Walpole would agree with you.

 

[IKnowNothing]

Boots on the ground however are a concrete example of commitment to a host nation.

That cannot be dismissed or downplayed.

And geopolitically- those boots should be contributed such to get a flag on the map. Those the arguments. Let's accept them- they're good arguments.

And in a time of Corps'- the conventional way to get on the map is a division. But is it the way that most makes sense for Canada?

In Desert Storm 2ACR -a Bde size formation, was right there on the map with 1UK as a prominent part of VII Corps. So were (albeit less prominently) 4x Arty Bde's as corps assets.

 

[PuckChaser]

I simply don't buy that.

Then no one will convince you. The real fact is unless we plan on having a carrier strike group on both coasts, any Naval or Air commitment is a token gesture. Boots on the ground has been the measure of commitment to an area for thousands of years, even after the invention of sail. Those guns only reach so far inland.

 

[Grunt_031]

Trump is now calling for 5% GDP expenditure for NATO members from his speech today at Davos.