Scott Taylor
Scott Taylor is editor and publisher of Esprit de Corps magazine.
Scott Taylor is editor and publisher of Esprit de Corps magazine.
In this political climate, Canada and the Air Force need to take the Black Hawk deal off the table for good by locking down a non-American supplier.
A fleet of high-speed, hard-hitting boats would be a better Navy reserve recruiting tool.
Building specialized hangars and recruiting special security personnel for the uncontracted future fleet raises questions.
Now that Eyre is criticizing the very real shortfalls of the CAF, perhaps he will better understand that the role of the media is not to simply cheerlead the military.
In overlooking Gen. Jennie Carignan, the NATO chiefs missed an opportunity to strengthen ties with Canada at a time when the U.S. is becoming a less-reliable ally.
If the prime minister is serious, we should base one of the Army’s new divisions in a central European country on a permanent basis.
The fact that we have grown collectively numb to Donald Trump’s unpresidential antics should not excuse inaction on the part of our elected leaders.
With ingratitude of this magnitude, is it any wonder that no NATO ally has chosen to join in on the American ‘excursion’ in Iran?
Let’s truly stop buying weapon systems from the one and only country that repeatedly threatens us with annexation.
Given that their role is to preside over religious observances, on the surface it seems ludicrous to prevent military chaplains from mentioning God or using symbols representative of their own particular religion in public settings.
The decision to conduct a flypast on the Fourth of July employing two CF-18s and two U.S. F-35s begs the question of just how tone deaf the Air Force brass are in reading the mood of the Canadian public.
DND’s move to ‘better align CAF resources’ is effectively a death knell on Canada’s history of exemplary UN peacekeeping work.
For many NATO allies, something as ubiquitous as trucks and jeeps for the army are not purchased on a batch basis every couple of decades.
As an ‘observer,’ Canada will have no decision-making role in the Global Combat Air Program, and we are not committing any resources to the deal.
The Liberals have fixed a recruitment problem that didn’t exist, and as a result are enrolling less-capable recruits into an already over-stretched training system.
Canadian history has shown that many major acquisitions get far beyond this point in the process and end up never seeing the light of day.