Justin Trudeau hints at boosting Canada’s military spending

I'll believe it when I see it.

 

[dimsum]

I mean are you surprised?

I am not.

But yeah there is a lot of waste.

That is some British-level understatement there

 

[Good2Golf]

But yeah there is a lot of waste.

So more like a net 3.1-3.2% of GDP?

 

[Brad Sallows]

Edited to add: The Space thing blows my mind. There are the 5 separate Space components (one for each service), the US Space Force, and then US Space Command, which are all different things.

They have Police Agency Envy.

 

[RangerRay]

Congress is forcing the services to transfer the Space positions to Space Force.

I’m guessing all those positions are fighting going to Space Force because they don’t want to wear those fugly uniforms…

 

[KevinB]

I’m guessing all those positions are fighting going to Space Force because they don’t want to wear those fugly uniforms…

It's actually more related to wanting something out of Satellites that they don't think they are going to get from a larger parent --
1) The Army tends to look at the fact they have armed helicopter because the USAF doesn't want to do ground support stuff.
2) The USAF has Security Forces as the Army doesn't want to provide soldiers to look after aircraft that won't do ground support.
3) The USMC tends to distrust everyone and duplicated all efforts because everyone else ignores them.
4) The Navy well they do Navy stuff
5) SOCOM knows the other services are so fucked up, if they want something done they will do it themselves...

and there is justification for a whole lot of shit in DoD - not just the Space aspect.

 

[daftandbarmy]

It's actually more related to wanting something out of Satellites that they don't think they are going to get from a larger parent --
1) The Army tends to look at the fact they have armed helicopter because the USAF doesn't want to do ground support stuff.
2) The USAF has Security Forces as the Army doesn't want to provide soldiers to look after aircraft that won't do ground support.
3) The USMC tends to distrust everyone and duplicated all efforts because everyone else ignores them.
4) The Navy well they do Navy stuff
5) SOCOM knows the other services are so fucked up, if they want something done they will do it themselves...

and there is justification for a whole lot of shit in DoD - not just the Space aspect.