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Rather than creating completely new ports why don't we properly develop the ports that we already have and leverage the existing economic opportunities to create the effective military infrastructure we require. This summer a new deep sea port officially opened in Iqaluit which is not only the...

He still needs to finalize the "business case"??? Here, let me help:

Haligonian's Harem!

This I think is key. Major equipment takes longer to procure than troops take to train. This is where I differ somewhat with @FJAG on his restructuring plans. It appears to me that his objective is to maximize the number of fully-equipped, deployable units in the CA at the highest eschellon...

I think it's even worse than that. A chart for projected 2023 Defence spending shows that Canada alone among NATO allies sits in the "Quadrant of Shame" meeting neither our 2% of GDP spending on Defence OR our 20% of Defence expenditures on Equipment.

You're correct. Singapore is a single data point, but there are a lot of countries that are facing natural population decline that are all trying by various methods (with very limited apparent success) to slow or halt that decline. All I'm saying is that the social trend in developed countries...

Those policies are fine, but do they actually work? Singapore still has one of the lowest (and still declining) fertility rates in the World with 2023 projected to drop in 2023 to a record low of 0.97

Oh great...now Newfoundland will have TWO groups of people that don't speak English!

To be able to fully man the fleet you need much more than just the stated complement of the ships as many personnel will be in training, teaching, staff positions, on leave, unable to deploy, etc.

Oh...I was thinking Never paid a porn star for sex yet Does that make me a bad person?

Yeah....that would attract a lot of settlers!

More rapid adaptation by the Ukrainian military. Russians use aircraft to target Ukrainian USV's so Ukraine mounts heat seeking missiles on their USV's. That will certainly make Russian pilots think twice when engaging these targets...

Russia apparently having some issues with their North Korean-supplied munitions. https://defence-blog.com/ukraine-russian-launched-north-korean-missiles-explode-mid-air/

Well I guess it's their use of ISR assets that makes the IRS so good at tracking down taxpayers!

Understood. Explaination?

It's my understanding (quite possibly wrong) that the ASW suite on the Cyclone can be removed so it can be used as a utility helicopter. If so, could the ASW suite be modified to work with a Cormorant? The AH/EH-101 for both the SAR and ASW roles and the Blackhawk as the Griffon replacement?

Whatever we get I think we should get them all marinized to maximize their interoperability with our ships and potential operations on allied amphibious ships. Apparently all Bell 525's are marinized as standard (and parts of the aircraft are made in Canada), but we'd be the lead customer with...

Just thinking through the numbers... efP Latvia from what I can tell currently has around 1,000 troops deployed. I'm not sure if that includes the fairly recently added 15-tank armoured squadron or not. A doctrinal 19-tank armoured squadron is 123 personnel so I'm guessing that would mean...