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I'm still using some old statistics on the strength of the ten ARes brigades although I don't think it has changed significantly since then. What is obvious to me is that southern Ontario and southern Quebec are the core of the ARes strength, that BC is underperforming, that the Prairies are...

I think that you need at least one full RegF company and a good slice of the CS platoons (at least a platoon leader or 2i/c and one full section for each platoon) per battalion to ensure that all the requisite career points and internal training from rifleman to battalion commander can be...

I understand the concepts of both ARNG with active duty experience (akin to our Class B) and Active Guard and Reserve positions (also akin to our Class B but with differences) I see much of the Class B jobs go by the wayside as people are recruited into restricted RegF positions and so can meet...

Primarily on existing infrastructure albeit some new infrastructure is needed. I'm against "super armouries." As an example. Toronto has a complex at Dennison that could house a brigade headquarters, a battalion headquarters and at least one full-time rifle company. While Fort York and Moss Park...

I've set out an extensive overview of a force restructure in my revised book "Unsustainable at Any Price: The Canadian Forces in Crisis. 2nd Edition" The first issue is that the 30/70 battalion concept is not based on a fixed ratio but represents the idea of hybrid units made up of RegF and ARes...

Urban 30/70 battalions enter the chat. 🍻 I had to do it - couldn't stop myself. :D

My guess is that it's just above the poverty line there. 🍻

True enough and note I said fewer, not eliminate them all. You forgot to mention lawyers. :giggle: I think I've more than paid back for my subsidized education - which I still consider the best deal I ever got - through the taxes that I've paid over the years - as have most doctors, dentists...

Considering how much universities are subsidized here, they aren't waiting to graduate to sponge off the public. Fewer universities; more community colleges! ;)

The Navy couldn't have given a crap. They have their own air defence. Nope - an army smoky room. :cool:

That depends. Are they infantry illuminati cats? :cool:

Air space coordination measures will only take you so far in a fast moving large scale low level environment. This whole thing makes me firmly believe that all the folks who sat around the army's smoke-filled back room during the 2011-13 nights of the long knives where the decision was made to...

You've revived my favourite thread. I still maintain that if we had two RegF classes of service, both of which are liable for operational deployments but one which has unrestricted terms of service which allow involuntary postings and a second one which provided that the individual could not be...

I've just reread Hellyer's 1964 White Paper on Defence. It's actually a breath of fresh air, brevity and clarity compared to SSE and ONSF. 🍻

When I said "I'm not quite sure what you mean by 'Having marginal capabilities scattered across the Army, in light, medium and heavy, without coherent structures for employment or coherent support, is a perpetuation of the past without a plan for the future,'" I meant that I wasn't sure whether...

Going back to the MBT was an operational need that came out of several events. The first was the VCDS cancelling the MGS on the recommendation of Caron before he left the job as CLS in June of 2006. The project was eventually cancelled later that year. Concurrently he recommended the...

Just noticed this. This was the organization from when it was first deployed around 2007 to 2010. Originally the aim was to deploy 34 with each SBCT but this was reduced to just the three battalion's rifle companies for a total of 27. The system was problematic and by 2017 the number of MGS in...

That's interesting and actually got me to do some more research. Initially I saw an article that the UK gifted 45 L118s to Ukraine. But then. I note that the UK based versions of the L119 went into storage after the Brits had expended all their M1 ammunition in 2005. Further I found that New...

Bit strange for an article. There is no Brit L119 light gun. The Brit gun is the L118. It was designed to fire the L series of 105mm projectiles used by the Abbott SP. I believe it is 45 of these that Britain donated. The New Zealanders, on the other hand, had a variation of the L118 with a...

It's nice to see a government and military that thinks and plans for a future conflict rather than ones that can't think and accordingly can't plan beyond talking points for the next election. :mad: