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    Die Generalüberholung der kanadischen Armee steht bevor, während DND die Mobilisierungspläne fertigstellt


    Die Generalüberholung der kanadischen Armee steht bevor, während DND die Mobilisierungspläne fertigstellt

    https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/army-canada-mobilization-soldiers-9.7145446

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    1. Freebird025 on

      If, as the article speculates, the military had to scale up to hundreds of thousands of people, would young Canadians volunteer their lives? 

      Is there much of a buy-in to defend Canada the homeland if home ownership and family creation rates are as low as they are for young people?

    3. Saisinko on

      Pretty much everything government related needs an overhaul and a large majority of the time, it’s removing administrative bloat from the payroll, streamlining + modernizing if even just to a common sense level, and raising the pay for frontline workers.

    6. Baulderdash77 on

      The scale is interesting; especially the reserves.

      Going from. 20,000 reverse force to 100,000 is pretty massive. Reserve units average 100-120 people per unit and thus would increase them to 500-550 per unit. A full battalion has 600-700 troops in it; so this is getting close to full capacity of the reserves.

      I also wonder how the 300,000 semi-trained volunteer forces will be structured. Will it be paid or not?

      This isn’t an overhaul; it’s a semi-mobilization they’re talking about. There are lots of questions.

    8. WineNot2Drink on

      Canada’s biggest threat is also our biggest ally. The USA will stop any other nation from making serious moves on Canada. But they are also the biggest real threat that no matter how much we spend we couldn’t stop.

      Canada should shift to the Switzerland model of “pain the ass” defense. Lots of reserves (seems like the plan) and defensive, low cost tech (drones, shoulder fired missiles to take out tanks and armor).

      There’s a need for a handful of advanced fighters and helicopters. But less 1980s style standing army with tanks etc.

    9. NavyDean on

      These guys are talking about raising division strength level, cold war style combat units, against the growing threat of drones making cold war military tactics useless.

      Jesus take the wheel.

    10. PoliteFocaccia on

      > „That is not a critique of our people. It’s a sober assessment of the strategic environment — one that led us to lay out a plan of action.“

      Hopefully ChatGPT is less involved in the reorganization than it was in this speech.

    12. Euclidisthebomb on

      Am I the only one wondering why Montreal? The „defence of Canada/protection of civilian infrastructure“ should be more centrally located and also further away from the border.

      Would not North Bay/Sudbury Ontario make more sense? And you could stash a lot of stuff away in the Sudbury mine tunnels repurposed to military storage.

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