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  1. quadrapiper

    CDS General Eyre announces retirement

    That is probably the second-worst (first is management wanting the vibe of a full office) reason to opt for in-person. If you were pick a compelling reasons in favour of WFH, enormously reducing the entire commuting and workday infrastructure, public and private, is right up there.
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    The War in Ukraine

    Missiles aside, what's the bottleneck? Electronics and sensors?
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    Maritime Coastal Defence Vessels (MCDVs)

    Copy. Ideal route as in "how the current system is meant to work," or "probably the best way to do it?" And I absolutely meant bait for the hypothetical recruit! Noted. Got it. Wasn't sure if certain singular or small-department shipboard roles were intentionally filled with people who'd...
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    Maritime Coastal Defence Vessels (MCDVs)

    Certainly. Just batted that out as a very tidy option for bait. Running with the idea of incentives, when does Logistician Bloggins (clerk, met, cook, firefighter, PA, whatever) get their first posting identified, and would there be an easy way to ID and incentivize people in those trades to go...
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    Maritime Coastal Defence Vessels (MCDVs)

    A more intensive refit cycle in all those spare yards with hundreds of trained tradespeople hanging around, along with a massive (including standing up Crown machining capacity) parts buy/build. Fixing MARTECH and the whole "risk management by assuming the risk" thing, plus flags not...
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    Maritime Coastal Defence Vessels (MCDVs)

    Since the frigates will be the fleet backbone for some time to come, would there be value in using the two most ragged ones as Fleet School annexes alongside Halifax and Esquimalt?
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    Our North - SSE Policy Update Megathread

    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...
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    Updated Army Service Dress project

    Maybe doeskin? Doesn't look quite like barathea.
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    The War in Ukraine

    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...
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    Replacing the Subs

    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.
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    King Charles III

    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.
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    CAN Secur/Int Committee: Time to Fix RCMP Federal Policing pgm

    They might be more easily convinced to up sticks, though.
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    Uniforms/Unification (split from King Charles III)

    I was thinking more that getting rid of such a unit was a bit of an own goal. Which hackles?
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    Uniforms/Unification (split from King Charles III)

    There's them, but I meant the Canadian Guards.
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    CAN Secur/Int Committee: Time to Fix RCMP Federal Policing pgm

    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...
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    Uniforms/Unification (split from King Charles III)

    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...
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    CAN Secur/Int Committee: Time to Fix RCMP Federal Policing pgm

    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...
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    The War in Ukraine

    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...
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    Canadian Surface Combatant RFQ

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

    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...
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