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Looks like a pretty brilliantly planned Op by Israel. A couple of interesting tidbits from CNN's live updates: I found these two separate tidbits quite interesting when you put them together: and So, did Israel set up a dummy operation in advance to supply encrypted pagers in Lebanon...

Frankly, anyone who thinks we're going to see any significant increase in our tank force...or a tracked IFV anytime in the near future are going to be extremely disappointed. The CAF has too many other major priority projects going forward that honestly are more important than growing the Army...

Being completely interoperable in terms of equipment doesn't make you a vassal. You can be lead nation in a Multinational Division North with Abrams and Bradleys just as well as with Leopards and CV90s. Either way you're dependent on other nations for key elements of your supply chain...

Some details on Canada's latest contributions to Ukraine: https://defence-blog.com/canada-sends-weapons-trains-pilots-in-latest-ukraine-aid-package/

Put together by countries like Canada who recognize that due to Russia's actions they politically have to be seen to do something but just can't bring themselves to truly accept that we really are in a conflict with nations that consider us as "enemies" and are making concerted efforts to weaken us.

If we were forward thinking we would have designed our Brigades to be plug-and-play with US Divisions and instead of leading eFP Latvia we could either have joined eFP Poland along with the US or provided a 3rd rotational ABCT to Poland (with pre-positioned equipment) for the US as part of...

The Canadian-led Brigade ultimately falls under Multinational Corps North East which includes the following Units: Multinational Division North Multinational Brigade Latvia - including eFP Latvia (Leopard/CV90 & LAVs and a mix of multinational armoured vehicles) Danish 1st Brigade...

Are the Ukrainians repeating the mistakes of Bakhmut and being unwilling to give up territory for political reasons to the point that they are again taking increasingly unfavourable loss rates in the Donbas? According to this BBC article things are starting to look dicey in the Pokrovsk sector...

While I typically beat my drum that commonality with the US Army in vehicles/equipment should be our default option, if we accept that the Multinational Brigade Latvia will continue to be the primary focus of our Regular Army then I'd say we should go for the Leopard 2A7 as our MBT. Our primary...

And can our new subs bring their kid brothers with them??? https://defence-blog.com/kongsbergs-new-underwater-drone-completes-longest-autonomous-dive/ Have an AOPS deploy a couple of these equipped with towed arrays in support of a manned sub to expand the area they can patrol. There's even...

Maybe because a private sector company can go out of business (and all the jobs it generates lost) if the company fails to earn a profit while the government can simply go deeper into debt to cover its employment expenses?

And are the rural residents buying all those resources among themselves? To earn that resource revenue you need customers that need those resources...i.e. the urbanites. How much GDP would rural Canada generate if they were only selling what was required by their own small, low density...

The question is if JT DOES quit then who the hell will want to captain that sinking ship?

Germany is supplying Ukraine with an additional IRIS-T AD systems with initial deliveries starting this year: https://defence-blog.com/germany-orders-17-more-iris-t-air-defense-systems-for-ukraine/ Wikipedia info on the systems being supplied can be found here Meanwhile the Ukrainians are...

And the 80% that live in the cities are the ones buying the energy, milk, wheat, eggs, minerals, oil, gas and lumber from the 20% which provides their income. Personally I'm fine with the compromise that over-represents the rural and small province populations...I'm just pointing out that it's...

It's not even a big town...population of 30,252. That would place it at the 62nd largest municipality in Ontario...in between Orangeville and Centre Wellington.