„Wir müssen uns auf groß angelegte Konflikte vorbereiten“, sagt Kanadas Militärchef

Are the Liberals going to ask the Conservatives to fight it for them ?

Even though in today’s world the odds of having a large scale global war are much higher than they were 5 years ago, I think the best for Canada would be to try staying out of it. This is because regardless the end result  of a such large scale conflict, Canada only has things to lose but nothing to win out of it. The focus for the decades to come should be to defend the Canadian North and to enforce the Canadian sovereignty over the Northwest passage. This will consume a large chunk of Canada’s resources and we cannot afford to waste them elsewhere 

CAF isn’t capable of fighting large-scale conflicts. It’s nothing against the bravery or skills of Canadian soldiers, only that the CAF is like a small pebble in a heavy weight arena. Canada has vacillated on one fighter jet for more than a decade now, all the while the CF-18s continue to accumulate flight hours. This is not a hallmark of a serious military power.