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Especially one that doesn't have a bunch of personnel-intensive standing commitments. The UK today doesn't have BAOR or the multitude of other major commitments it once maintained, nor does it have all the DOMOPS activity implicit in half a continent's worth of fires, floods, and other...

What would a South Korean alignment look like?

Not on its own, but would having non-nuclear subs retained in the Anglosphere be a good idea?

How much value, looking at that proximity, is found in having SSKs available for USN/RCN/RCAF to train with, and within NATO/Five Eyes/etc. in other settings?

Yeah, unless you're using it as an information strategy and intend to sucker-punch the target. I'd had a vague hope at least some of the F-16 delay was a lie, for example, and that a suitable moment would be found for a live reveal.

Was thinking of providing support to the not-PAFOs, on top of carrying on the "sell the CAF" and film/video creation work, and having that group separate from the one whose members get to deal with the fallout when S2 Bloggins posts something obnoxious.

Time for a split within the trade? A "promotion and communication facilitator" stream to support (not control, notably) non-PAff people in getting their word (images, videos, whatever) to the world and to handle the non-reactive (or non-crisis, at least) side of things (backgrounders, website...

Could see that impression taking hold given OP IMPACT. Whatever the Auroras were doing there, it wasn't ASW.

Almost feels like the older style of "release" needs to return, as the second step for everything that's not Instragram (would be lovely if they'd give up and allow links in post text...). Get all the material about whatever in the same place, either within the page or one click deep. Might take...

Which suggests a need to present a thousand genuine faces telling their, their unit's, and by extension the CAF's story, in an engaging and relatable way. There's definitely a gaping hole in place of the old mass-distribution internal material. While the CAF app and the online Maple Leaf have...

Would imagine something with a "combatant" armament*, plus AOPS-level icebreaking capability, plus whatever other capabilities are unique to the AOPS, would be on the large and power-hungry side. *Assuming it's Arctic-focused, this would mean - what - an ASW suite sufficiently robust that it'll...

I wonder just how much of the noise from Russia a little while back about officially designating the occupied territories as part of Russia was driven by that sort of internal game.

Beyond the shovel-and-C4 realm, and setting aside airborne units, does that look more or less the same whether it's supporting light, medium, or heavy?

Question: someone mentioned lines of communication. How rough should those vehicles be able to handle? Even in BC, there's a pretty quick, steep dropoff from "paved road" to "the bulldozer followed the goat."

Given the lack of real impact the fine is likely to have, thoughts on why it wasn't straight to cells?