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For a Canadian perspective I recommend Arthur Gullachsen's An Army of Never-ending Strength. I made a thread a couple of years ago here: An Army of Never-Ending Strength: Reinforcing the Canadians in NW Europe 44-45 The Canadian Army had a very robust personnel and equipment replacement...

In other news, C Sqn RCD won the Canadian Army Trophy (CAT) tank gunnery competition conducted in Latvia last month. There were teams from seven nations participating. This was the first time in 33 years that the CAT was conducted. A team from the UK came second, while a team from Italy came...

OK. I am not a navy type, but I will try here. AOPS is for presence and surveillance, but I don't think it is meant as the recce function for strike assets. The armament it has allows it to perform the OPS function on missions like Op CARIBBE. In our Arctic it performs presence and...

I don't think they would be sub-hunting, but it could be useful to be able to tell if someone has been somewhere doing something on our seabed/in our EEZ? That could be one application of a UUV in a AOPS role, not to mention recovery operations etc. UAS would extend the surveillance radius...

Non-RCN person here, but the AOPS strikes me as a useful ship. The RCN is an important aspect of maintaining our arctic sovereignty. I was working on the Arctic file for the Army, and one way to view our arctic is indeed as an archipelago. All the services have an important role to play and that...

Well, there is a Managed Readiness Plan and the Army Operating Plan has chapters on readiness along with an associated Enhanced Warfighting Proficiency Directive. We look at readiness through a lens of personnel, equipment, training and sustainment. "How ready" forces have to be depends on the...

This is an extract from Our North, Strong and Free: Similarly, the Canadian Army’s light armoured vehicle fleet is central to ensuring Canada can maintain its operational commitments, including to NATO, while maintaining a robust fleet at home for training and domestic operations. Canada will...

If anything, many of the other posts should be split off. You are quite right that a discussion of SSE should be focused on the big picture. I think, though, that rather than saying if we should become Australia or New Zealand we should focus on what is needed by Canada. I get that you were...

Before this goes into the Army.CA hivemind of "truth", the US exchange personnel at ACTA worked for me. I was also the link to ARNORTH. We got lots of phone calls before, during and after JRTC 23, but they were regarding things like dangerous goods paperwork for vehicles stopped somewhere in the...

The 1997 movie was certainly a satire of fascism. The book, though, was not. Indeed, the glorification of fascism is among the charges levelled at the book by critics. I think that is a stretch, but there it is. Charges of militarism, though, have to be accepted. There was not a lot of irony...

We've been over this before, but you cannot seem to resist turning any thread into a TAPV discussion. The TAPV was initially conceived as a replacement for a number of vehicles that were being used to move people around Afghanistan. The Canadian Army (CA) had all sorts of small elements...

I am not a recruiter, so take everything I offer here with a grain of salt. Check out 39 Signal Regiment. I think a chat with a recruiter would be the best way to frame your next steps. They can tell you what is available and what you qualify for. I am not sure how much of an interview you can...

And I said “TAPV” - a trifecta.

I will try to provide some background to this as someone who was recently very much involved in Collective Training (CT) policy, planning and resourcing. The concept of Foundation Training (FT) applies to both Reg and Res. The aim is to ensure a solid CT base is retained regardless of Managed...

What targets are you trying to strike at 5,600 km with a Canadian system and in what context? Like really? Just because you can do something doesn't mean that you should. What we need are systems that can strike in the 30 km to 120 km range band in support of tactical operations at the Brigade...

What exactly would you be trying to do with that system in Alert? What are you striking?

STEADFAST DEFENDER exercises NATO plans to reinforce Europe's defences. Canada is participating in a number of ways, including the movement of the additional equipment associated with the expansion of our contribution to the eFP as well as the relief in place of the eFP BG (there is a eFP BG...

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That a Canadian private company has business interests somewhere does not on its own mean that Canada has interests in that venture to the point of using force to protect it. Canadian companies that operate or invest in interesting places in the world do so with the assumption of risk. Canada...

And with the inclusion of Reserve Restructure this thread has checked-off the entire Army.ca bingo card. I counted the Star Trek red-shirt as counting for dress - maybe that was offside?