DND warns capability of Canadian military and equipment is dropping

[BWilly]

FIRST READING: New 'anti-racist' Canadian military scrapes new lows for morale, capability

More than half of Canada’s naval and air fleets are now unfit to “meet training and readiness requirements”

nationalpost.com

This is absolutely ridiculous to see laid out like this. How do we fix this? Is there a bottom where everyone says enough is enough? Do we do away with the DEI and go back to a warrior ethos? Is there a happy medium? I'm interested to hear everyone's thoughts and solutions.

 

[daftandbarmy]

Old news, I'm afraid, and DEI should be the least of our worries:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/nato-canadian-armed-forces-europe-1.7135390

 

[PuckChaser]

Unless DEI siphoned a billion dollars from O&M last year (Coles Notes: It did not), it's not the problem. Chronic under funding of both O&M and capital procurements (as well as their glacial pace) is fueling the decline.

 

[Colin Parkinson]

Drop "warrior" bit and focus on being the best "Peer warfare experts" we can be. All the other missions can flow from that standard, like we did in the past.

 

[rmc_wannabe]

DEI didn't undercut Project Management, implement Byzantine financial processes, fail to do a proper lifecycling management assessment for spares, or make defence procurement beholden to the economic needs of Ste Poutaine de Caliss, QC.

 

[Navy_Pete]

Unless DEI siphoned a billion dollars from O&M last year (Coles Notes: It did not), it's not the problem. Chronic under funding of both O&M and capital procurements (as well as their glacial pace) is fueling the decline.

DEI is a bunch of nonesense; it's not even a recent underfunding, it's been like that my entire career of almost 20 years, coupled with operation demands that don't allow for things like maintenance.

Add in lack of people, hiring freezes and the massive growth in bureaucratic processes and it leads to way less happening than it sould.

Anyone that thinks a 'warrior ethos' will overcome decades of underfunding and chronic overtasking is probably rage baiting.

 

[Jarnhamar]

Positive Space training was one of the first things cut paused when we were hit with the moratorium on TD not too long ago.

 

[McG]

The current state of readiness has everything to do with a $1B budget cut that “wasn’t a budget cut” on top of pre-existing underfunding of the sustainment budget. Of course things are getting worse. If you want a quick fix, double the NP budget and give DND contracting authority to match its initiation authority. Accept that it may take a few years before ADM(Mat) can spend everything. You will have immediate in-year results.

Do we do away with the DEI …

DEI should be the least of our worries

Unless DEI…

DEI didn't undercut …

Congratulations. You (Tristin Hopper) took this topic about a real defence problem and took it down a path completely irrelevant. DEI has nothing to do with the equipment availability problem, but it is great chum to keep the partisans distracted from what is really wrong.

 

[KevinB]

News flash, equipment shortages etc have been happening since the 70’s.

You can’t keep replacing 2 items with 1 and wonder out why things don’t last when the corresponding maintenance budgets get cut too…

 

[Navy_Pete]

News flash, equipment shortages etc have been happening since the 70’s.

You can’t keep replacing 2 items with 1 and wonder out why things don’t last when the corresponding maintenance budgets get cut too…

Can't cut a maintenance budget, if you don't do maintenance!

 

[Colin Parkinson]

Can't cut a maintenance budget, if you don't do maintenance!

Maintenance is so 20th century, oh look AI (aka Squirrel)

 

[dimsum]

Congratulations. You (Tristin Hopper) took this topic about a real defence problem and took it down a path completely irrelevant. DEI has nothing to do with the equipment availability problem, but it is great chum to keep the partisans distracted from what is really wrong.

Also it’s an “easy fix” (narrator: It isn’t) to drop DEI and everything will become all rainbows and unicorns.

I guess we’ll see in the next few months with our southern neighbours.