This is a useful article for thinking about the Supplementary Reserve, Primary Reserve and the Defence Of Canada concept - a translation of an article in a Russian military journal from 2022, outlining the tactics and capabilities of Ukraine's Territorial Defence and Special Police units.

No mistake or crime is more horrible to God than those committed to power. Why? Because what is official is impersonal, and being impersonal is the greatest insult that can be paid a person. —Søren Kierkegaard

i should have been allowed to tattoo this on myself in sleeping dogs

What is the @irhottakes.bsky.social observation? Americans treat Trump like the make a wish boy and the rest of the world treats him like the president of the United States?

12 people have been arrested as part of an investigation into a suspected extreme right-wing terror plot against an Islamic gathering in Suffolk The UK Ijtima, which hosted 15,000 Muslims for a programme of talks and discussions, was closed and evacuated by police on Sunday

Of great interest Must update my USV guide, might split AUVs into a separate one

Since I’ve been doing a lot of CAF-related reading, I’d like to give a shout-out to this wonderfully deranged research paper from a professor at the Canadian Forces College, asking the question that was on everyone’s mind in 2023: what if the RCMP attempted a coup and the Army had to stop them?

This may be a long shot, but would anyone know where I could find PDFs of the Land Forces Combat System Study (Corps ‘86), reports from Exercises BRONZE TALON or BRONZE RAMPART, or the 4th CMBG paper which was submitted for the 1978 Infantry Study? It would be great to examine them in detail.

You really do have to love the contrast between the dramatic music, the FPV pilot goggles, the whole "this is modern war" vibe, and the footage of very serious people in masks setting up their drones and then "arming" them with water balloons.

"On the night of July 10, bullets whizzing, glass shattering, running feet and fear, so thick we could almost taste it... Strap yourself in. War is coming. So, under the cover of darkness, lights off, crouched as low as possible, unknown screams rending the air. We put on the only armour we had."

One of the more annoying parts of being out of the forces is not having access to the Canadian Army Doctrine Library, they don't even publish the really borderline public knowledge stuff unlike the US and it sucks.

This is not particularly new, and forms a big part of Canada's place in the American right's imagination as a kind of uber-woke authoritarian hellscape. It is always worth a reminder that the American right wing has a long, selective memory and any of their smoldering grudges can easily flare up.

"Suburbs" is an amazingly bad translation of "banlieue" which almost completely fails to capture Mbappé's point here.

This thread is long overdue. There's an article in my field, one of the only published in a peer-reviewed journal in fact, that is so astonishingly bad and commonly cited that I need to warn people about it. I don't blame unassuming scholars for citing it. Expertise on Japanese aviation is rare.

Alongside the article I did my best to cover yesterday, I think this article from the same issue (originally researched and written in 2019-2020, before the change from reconnaissance squadrons to cavalry was put into effect) is also worth considering for a few reasons.

I'd say the "white left" being unable to reach Black political leaders probably has less to do with some innate servility towards "imperialism", and a lot more to do with a white guy born in 1990 accusing veterans of the Civil Rights movement who defeated Jim Crow of being being phoney sellouts.

If this is true, this is a very worrying story. It may also require a certain updating of priors in how we consider threats to our sovereignty from the US.

Late on this one (it was written in April) but this is a truly bizarre little piece in War On The Rocks. An argument for Canadian-American defence cooperation that literally does not even mention the annexation threats, the Davos Speech, the tariff wars or Canada diversifying procurement.

Tomorrow is the 31st anniversary of the #Srebrenica #Genocide and the beginning of the mass executions of over 8,000 people. Honour them by better understanding what happened. I worked on this resource below and it remains one of the things I am most proud of. srebrenica.sense-agency.com/en/

Visiting Srebrenica massacre sites, mass graves being exhumed, and the mortuaries handling the remains of the victims are experiences I will always remember.

The US government lies as a matter of procedure but if what they’re reporting is true they have basically stolen three and a half billion dollars from Canada

The underlying point: from bridges to defence pacts to ceasefires the word of the United States government counts for nothing. You cannot bargain with these people except through corruption

A training video from back in the day on the Canadian army's Small Arms Replacement Program. The wildest thing for me is that the trials unit at the start of the film are equipped with FNCs, not M16s. I wonder how that happened? I always figured Diemaco was a lock.

people really determined to show their whole asses on this one, it's pretty amazing.

Different time period but this is one of the many things I couldn’t stand about 1536. Sorry religion is not an afterthought! It’s central to the worldview of everyone in your play. Your grandparents aren’t just you with a pose!

I'd like to shine a spotlight on one of the Canadian Army Journal's greatest hits (from Volume 20.2) - Lessons On Fighting Reconnaissance From Exercise Maple Resolve 21. The link is here, though I'd recommend the illustrated PDF at the end of the article:

Badenoch really is a catastrophe for this country. She is a barrier to deradicalisation on the right, because she works daily to make the centre-right position as extreme and irrational as possible. I wish Cleverly had won that election.

I do kind of feel for Schiff (or the staffer who actually wrote this skeet and caught the wrath of BSky full in the face) because California vintners are probably leaning on him to at least say something. Having said that, this is still tone deaf and asking one side to unilaterally disarm.

Sixth day is ending. Tommorow, nr 7. No end in sight for the biggest battle in years for Mali and the Sahel, in what has long become something else other than simply defending or conquering a strategic location. Result so far? Inconclusive.

The link above downloads an MHT archive of a web page on my mobile browser, so here's a link to a page with a simple direct link to the original PDF document: www.queensu.ca/cidp/norther...

This is excellent news. I’ve made my issues with FPV drones clear before, but they are the best stopgap measure the CAF could have, especially since Draganfly has a mature FPV system and the new mobilization plans will need to equip tens of thousands of troops with AT capabilities.

people really do forget that the Yoon Coup had a whole second arc which was straight out of a Larry Bond/Tom Clancy book killing opposition politicians and AMERICAN SOLDIERS in a false flag to start a war with the Norks

A publication from last year that's still worth a look today: a collection of different perspectives and proposals on how CANSOF can adapt to the growing need to defend Canadian sovereignty in the Arctic. The full publication can be found here: publications.gc.ca/collections/...

North Korea learning drone warfare lessons from Ukraine combat www.nationaldefensemagazine.org/articles/202...

What is a "conceptual maneuver box"? How does framing the problem this way help to organize thoughts or clearly convey the problems and solutions? A lot of modern military writing imports these concepts - they seem to come from books on management, and do nothing to make creative thinking easier.

This is really fascinating; because i think the govt is acting correctly, Section 301's outcome is already made. This is a farce. there is no need to participate

This is good, but also this is the LUV contract, where downselecting to GM Canada or Roshel was basically inevitable given the requirements and the preference for domestic suppliers. I'm happy that it's been done, but I'm doubtful if any American bidders were especially hopeful to start with.

The closest you’ll find are the SIGAR reports on the ANP and SFA, though those don’t cover the latter years of the war. My public works cover some pieces (eg www.cna.org/reports/2014..., ctc.westpoint.edu/afghanistans... & ctc.westpoint.edu/lessons-from...) but there isn’t an end-to-end history yet

The whole deal with EBO, the Five Rings Concept, etc. which I find very funny is that its shining example was Desert Storm, while a Rand report on Desert Storm's air campaign explicitly said that "We hit so much stuff that it's impossible to say if certain key targets had an outsized effect."

The ARVN was essentially a giant social in whether advantages in airpower could compensate for a marked inferiority in materiel and firepower in the close battle, and repeatedly demonstrated that the answer was a clear “no”.

Deptula was a leading proponent, perhaps the leading proponent, of Effects Based Operations which was exactly the kind of simplistic, linear thinking that he's decrying here despite claims that it wasn't.

In all seriousness there's an argument to made that controlling land is a generally poor strategy but Deptula is absolutely not the guy to make that case.

Airpower didn't fail, you just failed airpower. You fool. You absolute simpleton. www.19fortyfive.com/2026/07/airp...

Given yesterday's discussions, I think this article is worth highlighting. It may be grubbing for a job, but it is noteworthy that the chair of the Obama administration's Global Development Council seems to concur with Bessent on certain points, and argues that Biden sustained trends from Trump 1:

NEW: Brig. Gen. Eric Widmar, senior legal adviser to the chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said he is retiring “for personal reasons.” His is the latest high-profile departure among the military’s top leaders and lawyers in the Trump administration.

Playing The Caribou Trail, a game following three members of the Royal Newfoundland Regiment in Gallipoli during the First World War! Probably a more accurate war game than most, in that I've spent most of my time cooking and digging and have yet to fire my rifle. A weirdly cozy experience so far.

This is a fair argument, and Mike's broader point about going it alone is also sensible, even if it's decidedly not Elbows Up. I believe that a security threat from the US should not be discounted, but the fact remains that Trump has also hardly won friends and converts in US foreign policy circles.

Extremely funny to imagine the circumstances that would somehow bring 40 mounties on horseback to the banks of the Milk River to catch two guys stealing horses, only for them to stand there and watch while two random livestock agents crossed the border to steal their quarry.

There’s a scene in Yellowstone that’s a middle finger to Canadian society and sovereignty. youtube.com/shorts/DI_Fh...