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  1. Long in the tooth

    Gloves and Coats

    I ride my bike to work on a daily basis.  At this time of the year, the weather is getting a bit cool, but not enough to wear a coat.  As far as I know, we're not allowed to wear gloves without a coat.  Has this changed, or our we, as my wife and children say, "just stupid"?
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    Legitimacy of War

    Ed Morgan is a professor of international law at theUniversity of Toronto.  -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- International law's muddy waters -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 'To me it's...
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    Terrorism and the Legal System

    Our enemies will succeed by waging war between the seams in our legal system, not our operational capabilities. This is exactly the case with those well known patriots, the Khadrs.  Although captured after a fire fight in which an American soldier was killed, his lawyers are skillfully playing...
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    Three Rifle Companies not enough. Bring back #4!

    I‘d like to add a few things that may not be direct on point here be feel need to be said. My comments are not about the Airborne, nor do I claim to have ever served in it; it‘s loss was a suck up to the PC. LCol Kenward had it squared away and it shouldn‘t have happened. My comments are about...
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    The ‘Iron‘ Second

    Just to add a few points about the 2nd Bn CEF - it was formed of men from Ottawa, Peterborough and Cornwall. During one of the major gas attacks in 1915/16 it held the right of the line while many allied units broke. For the remainder of the war it was known as The ‘Iron‘ battalion. One of its...
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    Field/Garrison

    It‘s amazing the amount of effort and resources go into training and maintaining a battalion so that it at a state to be deployable. As an officer you‘ll be shocked to learn that most Private infantry soldiers will only be in the battalion for two years - from the time they complete infantry...
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    Forgotten Soldier

    ‘The Forgotten Soldier‘ was written by Guy Sajer and is one of those books that seems to be in and out of print. It details a young Frenchman who joins the Wermacht as a trucker and then volunteers for the ‘Grossdeutchland‘, the Wermacht‘s elite Panzer Grenadier Division. If read in...
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    Misconceptions abound...

    1. Reservists are not ‘called up‘. They cannot be coerced to go on a mission - they are all volunteers applying for positions as they come up. If they apply for a position and get it, they cannot be compelled to do any other function! 2. Class B positions are laid down in stone and members...
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