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The graph actually varies a bit with what Doran said in the Journal article which is that: I'll make a small caveat here in that Doran doesn't quote much in the way of a source for his statistics (nonetheless that hasn't stopped me from citing his information in my book "Unsustainable at Any...

I expect the MLRS issue is correct. The upgrading of the Brit's MLRS fleet of 44 launchers has been in the works and budgeted for several years. They gave some to Ukraine so would be replacing those and planning on increasing their fleet between 50-100% - a total of 71 fits that well. I think...

Agreed - although this was for the carrier capable F-35B. I got the impression from this that this was an RAF contemplation to replace their Typhoons which they still have 137 of. I'm not sure if they'd go with the B for commonality or the A variant. 🤷‍♂️

The Brits are currently 17 Billion Pounds short in their budget vis a vis funding their intended acquisition programs. This would be a tight squeeze. On the other hand the Typhoon's best before date is 2025. Obviously the Brits don't know how to keep things flying for decades with bailing wire...

So is riddling babies with bullets. Did we have to wait for violence against women before Canada's official outrage could be registered? :mad:

My mother, bless her soul, was a dressmaker at the CBC and a union shop steward. Notwithstanding that she and I would argue endlessly about my military conservative leanings and her obvious flirtation with communism, I tended to side with her wholeheartedly about the stupidity and delusional...

Speaking of universities, and U of M, my old alma matter and one of my old classmates, Gail Asper, is in the news. Not a fan of the liberals nor of Izzy Asper for that matter, but this article was right on. Good for Gail and good for U of M. 🍻

One sometimes does wonder as to whether the editors actually read the articles before scribbling in the caption. Although with CBC you just know ... 🍻

Which doesn't negate the fact that the DoJ has gone ahead with the charges. TBH, I think this is a little bit of piling on by the DoJ - a not unusual course for prosecutors to take - considering the plea deal that was there before and which was inches away from consummation. 🍻

CNN article here" Looks like the Bidens don't own the DoJ after all notwithstanding the right wing conspiracy theories. :giggle:

I think that the biggest problem is that there is no transparency on it ... it just doesn't get talked about or debated except in very restricted circles. Sometimes that makes it look to outsiders like us that no one is thinking about it. There are military policies, they're just hard to find...

You know it's strange. When I went through university a few decades ago the vast bulk of us were there to get an education. There were a few folks who were in the less difficult faculties who constantly ran off at the mouth and got into the student union and ran the university paper. This small...

Unless Canada scales back the force (or the fairies give is 2% of GDP) Canada will never get properly aligned on the pers costs / equipment / ops and maint ratios it should be. Frankly before I consider any cuts to the reg f line units, NDHQ would need to be massively cut. But after that...

Towards the end of the podcast I think that there was a nod to the army recognizing the problem and looking at alternative processes. My preferred choice is: a) a core of the current eFP and the brigade headquarters and a CMTC (Fwd) det, and a strong logistics element that's posted for 3 odd...

I pretty much agree with you on this. I expect what is behind the way it is being done is pure numbers. It will take all six mech battalions to keep a combined battalion fed with 6 month rotos without killing everyone involved. That left three light battalions as spares and therefore available...

That is a very good podcast. There are some strong signals here that the army is recognizing the difficulties of the rotation system and the MRP in general. Moving the high end Maple Resolve to Latvia is an excellent move. I do wonder about the 10 week predeployment phase. It's an improvement...

Here's an example from the Vermont National Guard for fighter pilot enlistment and training. They do it. There is a system. And Air National Guard have flown combat missions in Iraq and Afghanistan not to mention thousands of tanker and transport missions. Add to that the Army National Guard...

Things were intense there for everyone. One of the stories coming out of the 14th was at the next exercise in England just after coming back, one of the detachments was at the start of a battery ten rounds fire for effect. With the L5, the breach sits at the end of the carriage and when the gun...

Back in 1971 we were paired up with 14th Light Regiment, RA (a 105mm L5 regiment) in Wainwright. They were just back from Aden the year before and still hadn't quite got the combat mentality out of their system. 🍻

An effective message. 🍻