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It would be a 2 vehicle formation that is the smallest element that can cover and move at the same time. And, once you’ve established a vehicle pair as the base unit, then it would give the officer more flexibility to have 3 or 4 of these base units to command. As a percentage, the actual...

Children who have richer parents will receive many advantages over their cohorts; why should we add education to this? There will be many points in a person’s life where merit and competition will be significant factors; but no child starts life having earned a better education over others. On...

Other infantry platoons were larger than a rifle platoon: Recce, AAP, Mortars; admittedly those platoons were led much differently than a rifle platoon. But how unwieldy would a rifle platoon’s command team (or a modified version of one) find it to control 3 pairs of rifle section vehicles...

I think that the Global Warming “issue” has caused a shift in the popularity of nuclear power. Tie in the non-use of fossil fuel, especially in the sensitive arctic environment, with sovereignty - and this might actually have some public support.

All problems that are solvable without having to throw money away for the benefit of private schools and those that use them. No; what happens for businesses that want government contracts is that they lowball their bids and then do not meet the requirements they were contracted for. And one...

Public Private Partnerships are not ideal for public health or public education; they have to make profits, are exclusionary, and favour those with cash who just want a subsidized form of a purely private service. But private schools and private health facilities must be made to pay for exactly...

Why would there be unlimited choice with total government obligation to pay? Parents are not being charged to use public (secular) schools - and so they are free to choose any of them they can get their child to. Nowhere is there the right for parents to choose the school that offers a free car...

The idea that there is a specific amount of money due to parents for their children is a myth, propaganda, poor logic, and bad math. Why should Joe Gazillionaire get to drop off his Precious at Madame Truffle’s School of Short-pants and Beanies, and then get a cheque from the government to go...

We are in a democracy - attempts to label some government services as socialist and others not, are pointless. This brings us back to your earlier statement: Trying to arbitrarily label some government services as socialism (and therefore to you: as being the result of greed and laziness) is...

I disagree, if it can be termed “socialized medicine” how can it not be, for example,  “socialized policing”. Further response here:

That is completely wrong; it is special treatment being asked for - it is private education at everyone else's expense. The public (secular) system is already openly funded for them - there has been no limitation of choice or freedom.

Common need is the reason for socialism. We have a common need for defence so we collectively form a military – the same applies for other services. Without some level of socialism you do not have a country. Using religious and individual freedoms as excuses for shovelling money over to...

That would make splitting a 4 vehicle platoon easier; on the other hand, is a 2 vehicle assignment really in need of an officer? Interim - wonder if that’s from lack of agreement, or from lack of need. No argument on that one. The ability to smoothly form a combat team at as low a level as...

I’ve seen USA Bradley orbats that, in a 4 vehicle platoon, have the platoon’s senior NCO in a separate vehicle than the platoon’s officer – so that, if working in vehicle pairs, they would each take one of the other vehicles with them (though I’ve never asked if this is actually how it is done)...

You have to really doubt an article that states the following: And then follows it in the very next paragraph: Extreme left wing ideas can find root in Canada because extreme leftist hide within centre-left parties. Centre-right parties almost only ever get voted in here based on the...

Are there any examples of what plans the bureaucrats have that differ from the government ones (or vice versa)? What exactly were these “Dilberts” prevented from accomplishing?

The US use of a medal for those wounded would be an example in the opposite direction. The medal uses indirect lineage to the 18th century award; and its current use replaced the US wound stripe of the First World War. The indirect lineage was a great idea; linking past to present. I would...

“Goofy” seems a bit extreme (unless it actually ends up looking goofy); after all, it will solve your previously mentioned problem: What does seem “goofy” is Canada having a medal for Southwest Asia (SWASM) and yet still awarding a “General” medal (either as the GCS or GSM).

It’s an old thread (and possibly covering a different topic) but it has the right title. Previously (the 90s), when deployed on dispersed operations in a mechanized infantry platoon, it was not uncommon to be tasked out to a position, or a section house, or on a patrol, with only the one...