19th January 2004, 3:42 PM
Gearing the army towards more modern objectives is a given, seeing as how it'll probably need to be entirely restructured at this point. I'm just not sure whether ditching the job of protecting North America on the U.S. to go play sheriff in third-world hellholes is the way to go.
I do believe we need an efficient navy, if only to patrol our immense territorial waters; there've been issues about asserting Canadian dominance over the north-west passage, which is quite telling. I agree that the submarines are a waste of money and time, as they're outdated and useless anyway. Land army-wise, the way to go would probably be smaller-sized units that fit into both schemes (homeland defense and peacekeeping). That way, we can keep a strong presence both on the continent and on the international scene.
I do believe we need an efficient navy, if only to patrol our immense territorial waters; there've been issues about asserting Canadian dominance over the north-west passage, which is quite telling. I agree that the submarines are a waste of money and time, as they're outdated and useless anyway. Land army-wise, the way to go would probably be smaller-sized units that fit into both schemes (homeland defense and peacekeeping). That way, we can keep a strong presence both on the continent and on the international scene.
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This is a special car.
Two accelerators... no brakes! Yeeeah!
-- Zodiac Mindwarp / Backseat Education