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We're pretty close. Equipment wise, we might actually be worse off than the 90s when a lot of 80s sustained them. We now have ships, fighters and helicopters from the 80s and 90s held together by sweat and duct tape. Personnel wise, have we ever had a gap from mandated strength this large...

Trudeau literally told a group of world leaders in the past that no Canadian PM would ever commit to 2%. You can bet a lot of pressure from the US Congress was aimed at Poilievre as much as it was aimed at Trudeau. And broadly aimed at the Canadian public too. At the end of the day Canadians...

Let's be honest. No faction can overrule him. Just the LPC is all about Trudeau, the CPC is all about Poilievre. Unfortunately, our political parties have increasingly become cults built around their leaders. You should expect to see lots of folks who were complaining about Trudeau not...

Good domestic politics. But the world is clearly changing. And increasingly trade is being tied to allyship. If people actually understood why quantum computing is significant they'd be way more bummed out about Canada left out of AUKUS. Getting locked out of deals like that will have...

A lot of that "waste" in procurement that parties complain about in Opposition they discover is very useful pork barrel politics in office. It's not going to change unless we develop real defence industrial policy. Something our governments are allergic to. That would suck. So many of the...

Why? What's the point? Airborne is increasingly useless to anybody but the really big boys. What near-peer conflict will ever require a Canadian para battalion? Developing a real air assault capability would be far more useful. And provide a nascent landing force, if eventually the RCN gets a...

You believe ghost written books are sincere? Unfortunately, political biases make people really susceptible to propaganda. Even if demonstrably bat shit crazy.

Poilievre says he won't commit to 2%. Hope allies are happy with going from woke to warrior in lieu of actual kit. https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/poilievre-dumpster-fire-economy-nato-1.7261981

Falcon 10x is the same size as the Global 7500.

Not worthwhile. There's various rules that get triggered when MTOW exceeds 100 000 lbs. Becomes a different category of aircraft. The Global 6500 has an MTOW of 99 500 lbs.

Endurance on both platforms exceeds normal crew day limits. Really it depends on what contingencies they see in the SOR.

Vague commitment in response to pressure. But should be a start..... https://www.canada.ca/en/department-national-defence/news/2024/07/canada-launching-process-to-acquire-up-to-12-conventionally-powered-submarines.html

That's why it's called a threat multiplier. Climate change isn't automatically a strategic threat. But it can make actual strategic threats much worse. For example, what do you think will happen in the Global South if more extreme climate drives substantial volatility in food prices? Part of...

And given that they are acquiring these to replace E-3s, it's going to be hard to argue that they aren't sufficiently capable enough for Canada, or that the only customers are small countries with no clue about capabilities.

Those are all large air superiority platforms. What exactly would Saab offer in this category?

Yep. Did my PG at NPS in California. And there were both guest lectures and programs on climate change and cleantech. I did one in addition to my sponsored PG. They actually incorporate climate modeling and cleantech into everything from future threat analysis to defence infrastructure planning.

Unpopular opinion here. He's not wrong that climate change is a threat multiplier. That said, saying you face major threats and then not equipping your response forces isn't exactly sincere. As for his base.... Who exactly are they? All the 25 year olds who voted for him in 2015 are now 35...

She generally won't care until there's economic consequences. Same for governments. There's potential economic consequences to being left out of AUKUS, which is why the government is starting to care. There's also a building risk that trade deals start to lock out Canada, with the recent...

Unfortunately, adulting didn't necessarily translate into SRIT points.