19th January 2004, 1:50 PM
Since the cold war ended we kind of felt that who is left to threaten us so badly that we must keep and maintain a large military? The Military has become a peace keeping force and less as a defense force and more of a foreign aid service.But Canada's armed forces has a good deep history , We served with the common whealth forces in both world wars.
But hell without a military we lose are independance and we are at the mercy of are allies and without a army we cannot help any foriegn nation in times of need. If we had a nemesis like Nazi germany or Soviet Russia that threatend are freedom we probaily would not have allowed are army to stagnate.
What we need is to construct a realistic body of military which trained and equiped soley for peace keeping duty. Homeland sercurity is the task of the Militia and the Air force.
As for the navy what the hell is the point? Sure we do need some ships to crack down on ilegal smuggeling and other activities.But really who is gonna attack us by sea especially since we got the U.S and Britain and all of the common whealth to rush to are aid. Forget the Submarines who's gonna bite us ? A pack of angry whales I think honnestly we should only have Troop transports and Frigates and maybe one Carrier so we can send Aircraft bombing missions when we need too. Decommision the submarines and everything else that is of no use today so we can save cash for somthing else.
But hell without a military we lose are independance and we are at the mercy of are allies and without a army we cannot help any foriegn nation in times of need. If we had a nemesis like Nazi germany or Soviet Russia that threatend are freedom we probaily would not have allowed are army to stagnate.
What we need is to construct a realistic body of military which trained and equiped soley for peace keeping duty. Homeland sercurity is the task of the Militia and the Air force.
As for the navy what the hell is the point? Sure we do need some ships to crack down on ilegal smuggeling and other activities.But really who is gonna attack us by sea especially since we got the U.S and Britain and all of the common whealth to rush to are aid. Forget the Submarines who's gonna bite us ? A pack of angry whales I think honnestly we should only have Troop transports and Frigates and maybe one Carrier so we can send Aircraft bombing missions when we need too. Decommision the submarines and everything else that is of no use today so we can save cash for somthing else.