Tag Archives: Canadian Military

Solving The Problem

I wrote the words in italics below more than a year ago, in mid-January 2023. For whatever reason, I never finished the post. Which, as it turns out may have been a good thing – I would probably have looked pretty silly to anyone reading the post today, as I will explain once you’ve read […]

Taking Off – Maybe

The timing was fortuitous. When Canada’s Minister of National Defence announced that the government is buying 88 F-35 fighter jets, the announcement was timed for when the Prime Minister would be out the country.  That way he didn’t have to take any questions. For him this is an especially embarrassing purchase, which explains why the […]

The Costs of War

When we toured the First World War battlefields in the Ypres area of Belgium last summer, the enormity of the human toll was apparent. The numbers are staggering. Daily casualty figures were measured in hundreds or thousands as more than a half a million men died in combat on Flanders fields in four years of […]