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Where in the defence realm would an immediate influx of $billions be spendable? Go to the Germans or Koreans and put in an paid up front order for Tanks, Many, and all the other tracked things to make a true heavy brigade... Financial incentives wherever they're actually useful for...

Maybe doeskin? Doesn't look quite like barathea.

Hope Macron has a contingency for "abject failure by Congress." Continue to be amazed that this young century's best opportunity for pork (setting aside all the good moral, foreign policy, and trade reasons for support) hasn't been embraced by Congress (or opportunities seen by US arms...

For the effects achieved, is there a cheaper way? Betting that, for equivalent under-ice coverage and response alone, you'd be looking at enormous investments in sensor nets, personnel, and aviation to do a less effective job.

Must say I was a little surprised when I discovered what their rig looked like! Could make an argument that the Guards title for units associated with the seat of power is as much a French concept as a British one.

They might be more easily convinced to up sticks, though.

I was thinking more that getting rid of such a unit was a bit of an own goal. Which hackles?

There's them, but I meant the Canadian Guards.

Was looking for a setup that would still have a "novice constable" pipeline, rather than (if you want people rolling into the federal roles to have meaningful time on the road) only having the option of trying to lure $100k-$120k/year constables out of their at least somewhat settled life. Is...

Coming at it from another angle: we could have a regiment stationed near Ottawa, positioned to deal with all things capital city and NDHQ! For ceremonial and identity, we could give them highly recognizable uniforms, and a simple, equally recognizable name...

Maybe retain the "police the boonies" role, continue providing/partnering with First Nations police services, set a population cap for provision of services, and count population based on contiguous urban/suburban/industrial development, not municipal boundaries? Basically, to use Vancouver...

I wish the Russians the best of it post war, with the ethnic oblasts (and the criminal classes) newly supplied with resentful combat survivors. Hope whatever can be done to encourage separatists is being done. Comes to mind, referencing someone's comment about $2bn being passed along to fund...

Compared to the recent run of USN projects, the RCN/CCG rebuild actually seems smooth, especially with the rest of the NSS factored in.

Totally uneducated, but moving V Corps and whatever else eastward seems like a move that could have been made at a number of inflection points (or whenever, for that matter) even after the invasion: week two, when it became clear Ukraine would fight, or during any of the Ukrainian...

Is the "two fleet" concept only inclusive of armoured (to one degree or another) vehicles? Thinking of the various ATV- and Jeep/pickup-like, lightweight recce, etc. vehicles, and all things Arctic.

Thoroughly bewildered now. A bump to the next tier's pay for the duration of the "sorry, reached down" posting would make sense.

Is what Iran has been sending properly top line, local best effort, or the sort of cheap as chips thing they'd build to send to their proxy groups?

If it would boil down to costing the same (or more) than not worth doing. Wonder how the cost dynamic would shift if combat/field clothing was treated like more widely distributed flying clothing.

Still, a common (let's say NECU/these trial things) cut with different colours, as with the goretex jacket, should lead to some savings. Wonder how much the NECU fabric costs compared to a "normal" fabric with similar comfort and durability.

Yes, and not as amenable to starch and nonsense as the garrison dress. All garrison duties that aren't No. 3x office roles, CIC (and cadets too, for that matter... would be cheaper than continuing to produce a smaller batch of what's basically the old OG combats), and anyone/any role that...