Alex Buck 🇨🇦

Badged into The RCR 10 years ago today. How it started: How it's going (a few months ago):

@ian_tb03 @FoundationDietz Great to put a face to the name! Thanks for all your work on this game and Boyd!

I always forget pics, so before I forget again—#ManeuverWarfare on the table at Connections North! #wargaming @FoundationDietz

Great to be at #ConnectionsNorth and finally put faces to so many names I’ve only known through emails. Awesome to connect in person with so many thoughtful people doing great work.

Great to be at #ConnectionsNorth and finally put faces to so many names I’ve only known through emails. Awesome to connect in person with so many thoughtful people doing great work.

Don’t forget to #wargame! It’s PT for your brain!!! @USACGSC has a few! Come try one out!

Made it into the Gander beta test! Glad to be a part of it, and hope it takes off. If you’re on there, look me up!

"You can automate a bad process and do it faster but it doesn’t change the outcome." mwi.westpoint.edu/how-the-army-s…

As both the US and Israel expend hundreds of precision weapons-- from JDAMs to Tomahawks to Patriots--it is time to start focusing on logistics.  How deep are the stockpiles?  In wars, the true professionals are ultimately the logisticians.

I suppose it is a good a time as any to share this article again. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

@newcoldwar89 @SebastianBae @PhilMarineCorps @HBuchanan2 The New Cold War & LC combo is strong here in Canada too!

Very happy to see our game in the tables of the Marine Corps Force Development Center of the @PhilMarineCorps with other great games as Flashpoint South China Sea from @HBuchanan2 and Littoral Commander from @SebastianBae!!! Many thanks to Robert Baynosa for his help!!!

“The slow, zero-risk management model that has been transferred into the ADF from the public service – which lacks elements such as the need for rapid decision-making under duress and the concept of unlimited liability – is not survivable in a future war.” To back up Chris Smith’s speech, I published this last month. 1/2 lowyinstitute.org/the-interprete…

BREAKING: Canadian government releases list of highest ranking anti-fascists in the Canadian Military: veterans.gc.ca/en/remembrance…

It was a great one! Lots of Littoral Commander on the go today! @SebastianBae

Great way to start the day!

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@MapleChaos000 I love that this is insane but also 100% accurate. If you need a replacement antenna, you might as well just buy 100 tanks - it'll be faster.

@ian_tb03 Always fun!

Mornings are also for prototyping and play-testing. #wargaming

"On paper, this is shared understanding. In practice, it is shared data. The brigade commander may be looking at essentially the same map and video that the company commander sees, but with a staff of 150 people and a fires cell to help interpret it." mwi.westpoint.edu/data-defeat-wh…

A good article on how gaming can inform emergency management and response. linkedin.com/pulse/what-gam…

Brittney Shki-Giiziz, Canadian volunteer in Ukraine: My first day fighting was absolutely excellent. I destroyed a train station with a tank. Being at war was physically easier than the training the Canadian Army puts us through. It prepared me very well for war. 1/

Spent the last week in an Army Modernization wargame looking hard at the Army’s future. A bit outside my usual lane of educational wargaming, which made it even better. Learned a ton, saw new angles, and already looking forward to week 2.