Article 4
So, watch the North Atlantic Council, then start talking about Article 5.

On the eleventh day, of the eleventh month.
We Remember.

h/t Bob H.

He knows that drones can’t take prisoners.

“…one of the lesser-told tales of that endlessly examined morning.“

Lose anything?

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.

New Zealand and Australian soldiers above Anzac Cove, 1915.

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.