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I think the LPC actions and the extremist agenda driven by the gun control lobbyists are exactly because the lobbyists were seeing that demographic shift and overall growth in positive legal firearms ownership. That is NOT in line with what they want for Canadian society. Hence the relentless...

An interesting aspect of that definition is that it’s in line with how the CA defines readiness; it’s basically effort based readiness. Key issue is that effort based readiness has almost no anchor in comparison to threat based readiness. A force that is “ready” in an effort based system may...

If there are no firearms in the “restricted” class owned by civilians there is actually very little reason for formal private range’s licensed by the CFOs. Non restricted firearms can be zeroed and practiced with on the pasture that was formerly a licensed range I suspect. Without civilian...

What are the cons about the current rank culture? Pros?

Do you mean the pay and benefits together as a CPO2 on deployment are not in line with the expectations of the rank and position when compared with the pay and benefits of a lower rank and the expectations of that rank?

Disbanding units does not equal losing PYs. If you disband 2 reserve formation HQs and amalgamate the units of three reserve formations into a single formation with full strength actual units aligned with a mobilization task and purpose inside an overall Army structure, and all the PYs are...

Maybe. I would tend to think the reserve could use a heavy dose of disbanding/formal amalgamation (not our current Tactical groups). That is in addition to a lot of rerolling and none of that precludes concurrent expansion. Expanding a broken structure would not help.

Interestingly enough the Army has now formed a new Army Modernization Team comprised of a dedicated Col, some LCols and others who will be pulled in episodically for various SME items. The remit is to figure out what the Army of 2040 needs to look like. One aspect of CCAs D&G is that no units...

https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/pm-trudeau-surprised-provinces-unanimous-on-accelerated-defence-spending-ford-1.7129647 I think the Premiers have realized that not spending 2% of GDP on defence is now a net liability that is threatening our economy due to the US and to a lesser degree Europe...

I agree I would like to see a foundation set for the entire Army. That includes all of the army not just the three regular Bdes and the 9 regular Bns. I would not consider rockets and fires Bdes as simply “cool” stuff but rather fundamental pieces of an Army that has 44,000 uniformed...

No reason (aside from vision, culture and perhaps funding) why the CA could not have a fires Bde with a long range rocket unit that as an entire Bde, would be employed as Divisional Artillery. If approached from a complete first principles mindset that would be a good fit for the reserve. It...

There is a trend of the official narrative as outlined by the BLUF in that Briefing Note being immensely positive to the point that I can’t take it seriously. It seems almost borderline shilling, and the various problems and difficulties seem to be consistently hand waved away as being solved if...

Isn’t that article stating that it supported LRASM targeting not carriage and launch? I was aware of that although I thought that capability completely disappeared after the wing upgrades. Either way it’s a theoretical capability that would not help to support any ship or ISR asset with actual...

Of course the RCN frigates have participated in a number, but has the RCAF participated in one with its CF18s or CP 140s engaging from stand-off distance?

True but deterrence sometimes needs to be overtly demonstrated. A Sink Ex with simultaneous impact of sea, air and land launched anti shipping missiles has a message that can’t be replicated by top secret undisclosed systems.

Does the RCAF actually have any dedicated anti shipping weapon capability? Laser guided bombs, JDAMs, Mavericks are all in inventory and while capable of targeting and damaging/sinking ships none are exactly ideal for the role. How often does the RCAF practice anti shipping missions? Just...

I has not actually thought about it until now but the UKR Army C2 structure sounds like a disaster. Trying to conduct large scale combat on the scale of this war with only Bdes and adhoc geographic commands, no Div or Corps HQ or echelon above Bde forces coordinated by those Divs and Corps...

If we wanted to switch the police function on our bases and for our forces to a civilian structure, I’m thinking that a simpler, cleaner structure would be to create a standalone civilian federal police force similar to the US DOD police or UK MOD police.

I looked at this. Interestingly these initiatives are not funded; they have no dedicated assigned funding from DND or the CAF. They are being solely funded by the CA and the RCAF through whatever limited funds can be spared. Without dedicated funding and multi year commitments the initiatives...