Our North - SSE Policy Update Megathread

[Edward Campbell]

PRC Identified as Dominant Threat to Canada's Democracy, as Vigneault Warns of "Terrifying" Chinese Cognitive Warfare

CSIS officials revealed increasingly sophisticated tactics used by Beijing to influence Canadian elections and public opinion, highlighting a chilling new concept introduced by former CSIS Director David Vigneault: cognitive warfare.

www.thebureau.news

My paranoid take -

The CCP and the PRC feel humiliated and the people that humiliated them were the Round Eyes, in particular the Brits and to a lesser extent their offspring - the Yanks, Canucks, Aussies and Kiwis.

The CCP aim is to reverse the humiliation, reset the yin and yang. They will not be happy until the humiliation is avenged, the middle kingdom is back in the ascension, face is regained and the Anglos are all kowtowing to them.

Success is achieved when the global community treats the whites like the aberrant outcasts they believe us to be.

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[Furniture]

MSEO, CSEO, LogO and IntO do not fight the ship. They are not warfare officers. Pilots on an aircraft carrier are. They not only "fight" the ship, they are the primary weapon. A carrier captain must have an intimate understanding of naval air warfare and an admiral fighting a carrier group must also have an intimate understanding of naval air warfare or be supported by someone who does.

When the Americans found themselves having to fight WWII in the Pacific with carriers instead of "big gun" ships, Admiral King insisted (nay! decreed) that any admiral in command of a carrier group that was not an aviator (such as Spruance) must have an aviator as his chief of staff and any who was an aviator (such as Mishner) must have a chief of staff from the surface warfare community. He was proven right again and again in this decision. And remember, the chiefs of staffs at issue here are admirals themselves.

Until we get carriers there is no need, and even than you can have a two "Captain" solution... One to command the air fight (AirO?), and one to handle navigation(CO). Realistically, the air fight is not happening anywhere near the physical ship, so what the skipper does with the boat doesn't matter too much to the air fight until it's time to land or take-off. It's just taking the surface ship concept that the CO fights outside the guard rails, and XO fights inside them, a bit farther outside the guardrails and changes the name of the job.