Recent content by markppcli

Ukraines essentially used tanks to roll into fire positions and engage then pull back. I would t really call it hit and run, they’re just rolling to run ups and backing off. A huge part of that is of course their general inability to employ combined arms tactics and need to Shepard resources...

I’d argue the modern tank destroyer is a Stryker TOW variant but potato potato. The M-10 is going to be used like a tank, probably at great cost.

Not it wasn’t. It won’t be in Stryker Bde’s who were the only used of the MGS.

No because as has been said above much better than I could phrase it, the key to content is perception of authenticity. Being employed as a PAFO immediately erodes that. Gen Z or what ever we call them now doesn’t want to listen to the suit being a desk tell them how the world is.

The problem being exactly this - younger generations are less likely to trust the source if they are obviously the PAFO. The best CAF content creators are not, and frankly cannot be, PAFOs. The Pilot project and Canadian Army pod casts are pretty good while the worst instagram account going is...

100 percent. The pod cast is literally the only accessible information for guys in the ground as to what’s happening with Latvia.

I’m pretty sure the host is a class B infantry reserve officer

From where ?

great interview and nice to hear the plan for the Brigade going forward.

https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.7201524 As someone with extended family up in Whitehorse this stuff is deeply concerning. We have population centres that size that can be totally cut off by fire quite easily. We need to find ways to establish redundancy, and maintain our lines of communication.

Damned auto correct

Oh sorry - right drones are the only effective women anymore so

Well no, it’s replacing the FOO’s OP not the FOO. Or actually more to the point it’s augmenting it in the same way as any other EO / IR sensor. The drone isn’t fire planning, adjusting, or doing any control. Similar with Recce the drone isn’t securing the attack position, it’s just a new set of...

Where does 16 LAVs come from?

Single Bn in Winnipeg. 26 Fd reduced to Bty strength supporting 1 RCHA. Svc Bn reduced to Coy strength as part of a prairie Sv Bn structure and heavily linked into the existing infrastructure at the base.