At a certain generally conservative paper:
National Post View: Are the Tories sound managers? Not of the Navy
The [sic] HMCS Athabaskan near Sydney, Nova Scotia. Canada’s last destroyer is temporarily sidelined after a series of engine problems and other technical issues on the 43-year-old vessel caused senior navy leaders to worry the ship might not be able to continue operating.
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Everytime CBC needed a self described veterans advocate" to bash Harper they trotted out Wayne Johnston. Oops. http://t.co/qGdc92x4U2
— Sheila Gunn Reid (@SheilaGunnReid) July 1, 2015
h/t Jamie, who editorializes; I’m by no means any kind of a military expert, but it doesn’t take a Wellington to figure out that the metamorphosis of the US military as envisioned and promoted by General David Perkins in this address to the World Affairs Council in Washington DC is nothing but “doing less with less”. It is a retreat rather than a refocus. (Skip the first 4:30 of this hour-long production).
Video: Self-guiding sniper bullet proving successful
Via email;
Please could you include something for ANZAC day for us, down under this is a big deal and rightly so, even more this is the Centennial remembrance. There are plenty of good links on the NZ blogs including this one on Whale Oil, whose owner is presently out in Gallipoli with his grandfathers medals,there is also a nice renditioning of the last post on there by Marc Knofler to boot.
Would really appreciate and know your NZ readers would as well.
This article is rightly about recovering the dead and Norm Christie’s inexhaustible efforts to educate Canadians about their military history.
It is worth noting the myth, propagated by the Liberals, all started by Mackenzie King to shore up the Quebec vote.
“Canadians don’t know their history (of the Great War) and there’s a reason they don’t,” he says. “It was intentionally erased by the Liberal government of Mackenzie King … to protect his vote in Quebec, and to hide the fact that he didn’t serve in the Great War.
My history is all sunk except for HMCS Qu’Appelle.
Rest easy, old girl. Rest easy.
Does the ‘loyal’ opposition or Foreign Affairs not understand?
But a memo provided to opposition MPs by the Department of Foreign Affairs during a closed-door briefing Wednesday….
I’m reminded of that Clancy saying, “Top-secret – Press”.
Michael J. Totten on Yemen, all it needed was a spark.
Related, “The Yemen Mess Is Sparking a Full-Fledged Regional War”
Michael J. Totten on Egypt’s attack on ISIS in Libya.
It’s a CTV two-fer!
CTV News, Regina – Are you comfortable with a military elective in high schools?
CTV News, Saskatoon – Should students be given credits for taking military classes in Saskatchewan schools?
Story here.
Attacking ISIS near Mosul on January 22nd.
Via Michael Yon:
That these A-10s are rolling in is a sure sign that US special operations forces are out there helping the Kurds. (No secret there — this is often in the news.)
Ideas that drones or F-35s can replace A-10s, or Kiowa Warriors is wrong. Apaches also cannot replace KWs or A-10s — each has a roll, and Apaches simply cannot do what KWs or A-10s do.
If anyone say drones or F-35s can cover for A-10s or KWs, just switch the channel. If a person were to say that Canada is in Asia, we would stop listening, right? Likewise, anyone saying drones in the foreseeable future, or F-35s, can replace A-10s or KWs might as well be saying that Canada is in Asia. It is safe to ignore him. He has no useful input on the topic.
31 Rolls of Undeveloped Film from a Soldier in WWII Discovered and Processed.
AP: Lawmakers agree on $585B defense bill, prohibiting retirement of A-10.
When it comes to Department of Defense doctrine on military treatment of detained persons, “unlawful enemy combatants” are a thing of the past. That term has been retired and replaced by “unprivileged enemy belligerents” in a new revision of Joint Publication 3-13 on Detainee Operations, dated November 13, 2014.
A respected former senator who struck a friendship with Mr. Obama when they were both critics of the Iraq war from positions on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Mr. Hagel has nonetheless had trouble penetrating the tight team of former campaign aides and advisers who form Mr. Obama’s closely knit set of loyalists.
Meanwhile, John Kerry continues talks with Iran…
Flashback: Republicans did try to warn him.
Reid: GOP filibuster of Hagel is "one of the saddest spectacles I have witnessed in my twenty-seven years in the Senate"
— Greg Sargent (@ThePlumLineGS) February 14, 2013
The story of an IDF platoon in battle.
A group of cadets volunteering to distribute Remembrance Day poppies were turned away at Cabela’s in North Edmonton, an act one legion representative calls disappointing.
“The management of Cabela’s informed them that, no, they weren’t welcome there,” said Greg Laskey, cadet liaison and poppy fund representative for the Royal Canadian Legion Norwood Branch.
Folks in Regina seeking an alternate source for fishing gear can visit locally-owned Pokey’s. Readers are invited to publish/plug other local alternatives in the comments.
Update: An apology has been posted to their Facebook page. It’s pretty lame, though.