Dougie93

women are best suited to a service support role to subject women to close combat at bayonet range is uncivilized

the vast majority of the land is uninhabitable wasteland, millions of square kilometres of frozen wilderness the crisis is more related to all the immigrants wanting to live in Toronto, Montreal & Vancouver plus the federal government printing money in order to pay the bills causing inflation of the money supply which bids the prices of everything up therein furthermore, there is a shortage of construction workers, since most immigrants refuse to work in construction to wit, don't blame HM The King quite sure he is generally opposed to the policies of the federal government, tho he must remain above the fray therein

calculating how many infantrymen Canada has is related to asymmetrical operations like Peacekeeping & COIN but if you are going to be in the big leagues, against the Chinese & Russians; all that matters is sea power since all the infantry in the world cant save you from a naval blockade imposed by SSN's

Ship Submersible Nuclear ( SSN ) is the Fast Attack Submarine Ship Submersible Ballistic Missile Nuclear ( SSBN ) is the ballistic missile submarine the SSN Fast Attack Submarine puts Canada in the big leagues of global security competition this is really what Canadians desire from their military, to be a player in the big leagues the SSBN ballistic missile submarine is another role, that's only for the Superpowers you worked at NDHQ and you don't even know the difference between SSN and SSBN typical NDHQ, what a bunch of clowns

Newfies are tough in terms of enduring hardship gladly but not particularly aggressive more of a congenial bunch if you want Island people who will close with & destroy the enemies of the Crown without mercy nor quarter you recruit from Cape Breton

when it comes to great power security competition to wit, China & Russia vs the Anglosphere & Western Europe the deciding factor is rather maritime power he who rules the waves rules the world ground forces are not really decisive in this strategic confrontation to control the global sea lanes so Canada should really invest in the navy at the expense of the army anyways ideally acquiring nuclear submarines, which are the arm of decision on the high seas now obviously America & Britain do not trust Canada to be a partner in AUKUS at this juncture but Canada does have another option, which is to court the French Canada could buy into the French Naval Group Barracuda SSN program although as soon as Canada did that, the Americans & British might change their minds and invite Canada into AUKUS

bear in mind that there is a limit as to how much you could expand HM Canadian Army in this day & age that limit is the number of personnel available to be instructors and the number of formations within the chain of command you're looking at 5 Regular Force & 10 Reserve Brigade Groups which would be about 75,000 troops when fully mobilized, roughly 5,000 per Brigade Group and it would probably take at least one year for Canada to mobilize that, even under wartime conditions it's not like the First World War when you just had to train them to charge with bayonets the amount of technical skills required now; limits how many troops you could train this is the problem for Ukraine, there's a limit to how many troops they can train to use NATO kit it's all technology dependent now, it's not industrial warfare anymore, this is post industrial war as of right now, the deciding factor is drones it is already a drone war which renders large formations of troops extremely vulnerable NATO tanks are getting blown up left and right by drones they can fly right up and drop a hand grenade down the hatch of your tank with a drone so its basically a stalemate at this juncture, and neither side has figured out how to break it

preparedness can be a deterrent to a war breaking out in the first place but if deterrence fails, such as if you are facing a madman like Adolf Hitler then preparedness does not reduce casualties per se the Germans were the most prepared in both World Wars by far yet they were totally annihilated in both cases in the case of Canada, being unprepared has actually reduced casualties before because in the Second World War, Canada didn't put large numbers of boots on the ground until 1944 instead Canada focused on the bombing campaign against Germany this was the Canadian government's strategy to reduce casualties, and it was successful for the most part it's the same situation with NATO now because if NATO goes to war, and wholly unprepared Canada doesn't have many troops to send that will prevent casualties not increase them the more prepared Canada is to send troops right away, the more casualties Canada will suffer thus it is better for Canada to stick to the World War Two strategy send some navy and air force to the fight, but hold the troops back until as late as possible the Navy SEALs have an axiom which is : "don't rush to your death" so if Canada has to spend years building up an army in Canada that's not a bad thing in terms of avoiding casualties Canada suffered its highest casualty rate in the First World War why ? because Canada was too prepared Canada rushed in, putting large numbers of boots on the ground right away, at the Ypres Salient if Canada had instead done what the Americans did, which was wait until 1917 to go in then Canada would have suffered vastly fewer casualties overall bear in mind that NATO Article V within the Washington Treaty ; does not actually demand that Canada send large numbers of troops to Europe all it says is that Canada must "assist" its NATO allies it doesn't stipulate that Canada do anything specific therein however the treaty allows all member states to contribute only what they "deem necessary" so Canada is in fact free to hang back and consider its options, even if NATO goes to war furthermore, in terms of Latvia, it's not a good idea for Canada to deploy more forces there that's just a tripwire in the event of war however, that force could be cut off by way of Lithuania & Kaliningrad you don't want to get caught in a "Dunkirk on the Baltic" scenario so in terms of avoiding casualties, Canada should minimize the tripwire force, not expand it like if you were going to reactivate 4 CMBG and send it to Europe, don't send it to Latvia just like World War Two ; you send them to England, and then just wait out from there you're really only bound, constitutionally, to defend the Commander-in-Chief at Buckingham Palace there's nothing actually binding Canada to save Latvia at any cost, even under Article V

it just doesn't make any logical sense the only threat of invasion to Canada is America but America has so much leverage over Canada, America would not need to invade to bring Canada to its knees so a large standing army is useless in terms of a massive thermonuclear deterrent, America already defends the entire hemisphere with that so there is no need for Canada to duplicate the American deterrent in terms of not being involved in wars ; Canada has always fought other peoples wars overseas so the defence of Canada itself never precludes Canada from being involved in war, roughly one every generation

I am not the one seeking to throw off the chains of American domination quite the opposite in fact as I am a Republican in the classical sense to wit, an American imperialist but if Beaverfeaver has the courage of his convictions then he should stop kowtowing to us and assert his independence by way of another patron otherwise, he is forever reduced to a fake country colonial, in the face of the American religion

fool's errand America will dominate you regardless the only way to win would be to do as little as possible which is Canada's actual strategy there is no need for a navy nor an air force, unless you are going to project power overseas projecting power on behalf of the Americans is ultimate American domination hence why Canada invented UN Peacekeeping the whole point was to project power independent of the Americans the problem was simply that Canada lacked the courage of convictions and the UN doesn't have a chain of command none the less, Continental Defence is a fake mission, Canada serves no purpose there the only threat to the continent is nuclear submarines, and Canada does not participate therein the Americans & British defend the continent with SSN's under the polar ice thus, if you want to gain independence from Washington, you will need your own foreign policy only then would you have a justification for a navy and an air force if you're going to spend the billions, it should all be spent on expeditionary capability then you deploy those capabilities where the Americans decline to go basically what the French do to wit, if Canada is not going to be a British country anymore then Canada defaults back to being a French country at which point, you might as well go all the way Quebec already runs Canada by default ; so just lean into it kowtowing to Washington doesn't work, that just makes them take you for granted the way to get their attention, is to be a thorn in their side, as Quebec is to Ottawa just acknowledge that Canada is no longer loyal to the Anglo-American hegemony Canada fears & loathes America Canada not only resents but actually despises its own British origins so much so, that Canada actually wants to cut a deal with the Chinese Communists in Beijing Canada literally desires to be the Chinese Communist fifth column against Washington which really leaves you with one alternative, which is joining treasonous Versailles in Paris Canada is obviously not trusted to be in AUKUS for these reasons so Canada should go to the French and buy into their SSN program instead in broad strokes, stop buying American, start buying French the biggest threat to Canadian arctic sovereignty is the Americans so you buy some French SSNs and start following the Americans around up there you don't have to shoot a torpedo at the Americans just hit them with active sonar to give their position away, that does the job there is only one kind of nationalism in Canada, and it is Bourbonite French you can't beat them, so might as well join them Je me souviens

except New Zealand is right beside Australia and New Zealand barely has any military forces at all New Zealand proves you can be an isolationist pacifist free rider totally relying on the Americans; in the South Pacific so there must be some other reason why Australia is buying high end military hardware from the Americans

it's not about defending the arctic that's a fake mission Canada is not capable of defending the arctic, so there is no "need" to pretend AWACS is offensive, used to coordinate overseas air campaigns mostly if you only consider what Canada actually "needs", you could go ahead and disband the entire CF since other than fighting forest fires, it's practically useless for defending Canada itself the purpose of having a Canadian military is not to defend Canada the purpose of having a Canadian military has always been to fight other people's wars overseas it's not a territorial defence force, all Canadian military imperatives are expeditionary

there is no Canadian AWACS presence in NORAD that is all provided by the USAF 552nd Airborne Warning & Control Wing from Tinker AFB Oklahoma in terms of the NATO AWACS at Geilenkirchen, Canada might provide some personnel from time to time but that doesn't mean Australia isn't putting Canada to shame by deploying its own squadron of E-7 Wedgetails

good ol' Australia will have to provide the Allied E7 Wedgetail AWACS since Canada can never muster the courage anymore

I would suggest that we have simply become American conservative Evangelicals if you can't beat them, join them to wit, even General Brock would side with the Republicans at this juncture

cheers tho at my age now I am focused on extrapolating the practical lessons of our history that being the central role played by the Lowland Scots Protestant Enlightenment in the founding of modern Western civilization as we know it Great Britain & America, the Anglo-American Empire of Liberty particularly how that Enlightenment was the source of all our power & prosperity and how that power & prosperity it rapidly waning as the Scottish Enlightenment is overrun by an unholy alliance of Marxist Leninist's & Islamofascists playing out in the streets of the once Orange stronghold of Toronto Canada burns while the Romanist usurper Trudeau fiddles history occurring in real time, at breathtaking pace bydand

and so the mobs turned against the Nazarene at Golgotha crucified for treason against Tiberius Caesar rejoice at the coming of Biblical times crucible is good for the soul

I don't seek to land anything against the Liberals I am an agnostic servant of the Crown, with no party affiliation other than the House of Windsor

you should properly identify it as Marxist Leninism Marxism is the Utopian Communist Manifesto but it truly becomes diabolical when you add the Leninist revolutionary vanguard as it is the Leninist's who seek to impose the Marxist Utopia by terrorizing the population into submission Marxist Leninism is Bolshevism, the most terrifying form of Communism

indeed, this is what a Communist takeover looks like the Marxist Utopians led by their Leninist revolutionary vanguard essentially hollow your society out from within they employ ideological subversion principally by indoctrinating the young in order to incite a revolution and you can't vote that out, it is not subject to democracy Communists are by nature academic intellectuals, so they operate through the education system they indoctrinate and recruit a "revolutionary student vanguard" these students will then take to the streets to incite chaos as needed to the point where even the police & military are insufficient to restore order the Liberals haven't even been voted out yet, but the mobs are already taking to the streets expect that to go exponential if/when the Conservatives win the election every institution in Canada is going to revolt against the Conservatives on behalf of the Liberals in a relentless campaign which will go on and on until the Conservatives are forced to capitulate

I don't think he needs to win the Liberals have successfully altered the culture itself to be a proxy for their dogma every institution in Canada is a proxy for the Liberals you can't vote them out, culture is destiny

"All of this brings to mind the musings attributed to French emperors Louis XIV — “L’État, c’est moi” (“I am the state”) — and Louis XV — “Après moi, le déluge” (“After me, the flood”) — in the 17th and 18th centuries." nailed it Ottawa is Versailles although it was the House of Bourbon which founded Canada on 22 June 1603 so once British Canada was erased, it apparently reverted back to its French Imperial origins

yes, Canada's mythology has been torn down and replaced with anti-Western Marxist Leninism Canada started by dismantling the military, then the dismantling spread to every aspect of governance the Post National State is the reality but I don't even lament it anymore what's done is done, it is what it is congratulations on rendering a once proud nation into meaninglessness not much one can do about it, other than carry on living in the ruins

but Canadian taxpayer money was massively wasted on other national vanity projects in any case the Arrow would have been par for the course and relatively cheap compared to what Canada actually wasted the money on instead