Jan Kool 🍁

1/ I've been a student of #airassault in the #canadianarmy for some time, and thanks to great sources such as this one, have done some thinking on the VDV assault on #Hostomel. TLDR: AAslt remains relevant. The attack failed because of Russian errors. youtu.be/r0Ji7KqqEqg

@fknorm50 @CDNPolicyHawk Ah, I understand. You are a bot.

@jankool37 @CDNPolicyHawk Clearly Canada's military is a joke. "This is the first time since the fall of the Berlin Wall that Canada will be spending two per cent of GDP on defence," Carney said at an event in the naval dockyard in Halifax... cbc.ca/news/politics/…

What's so irksome about US posturing against Canada on mutual defence is that they treat us as moochers, when we're clearly net contributors. Here's the USAF Commander of NORAD having to explain to Congress that defending the US would need more resources without Canada.

@fknorm50 @CDNPolicyHawk Clearly I know more about this than you. This is the 2014 Wales Summit Declaration, signed in September 2014. It commits members to spending 2% of their GDP by 2024. Canada achieved this in FY 25/26. Ergo, we missed our NATO obligation by 1 (or 2) years.

@jankool37 @CDNPolicyHawk The graph I posted was made in 2015 and is from the University of Ottawa and clearly shows NATO has a 2% spending target. Canada is clearly underspending and your fighter planes now cannot fly. You have failed NATO for 35 years. You arguing that you have only failed since 2014?

@fknorm50 @CDNPolicyHawk That target was agreed to in 2014, and came into effect in 2024. We missed it for one year, not 35.

@jankool37 @CDNPolicyHawk NATO requires that member countries spend 2% of their GDP on their militaries. Canada has not come close to that and now everything needs replaced at once. Your 40-year-old CF-18s are not airworthy and your submarines are not seaworthy. You have junk.

@UCCavalier I imagine all the infantry officers could. For the others, that's not their job

How many of these metaled officers could even lead a platoon into combat?

@fknorm50 @CDNPolicyHawk In what way have we not met our NATO obligations for 35 years?

@CDNPolicyHawk Canada has not met its NATO obligation for 35-years. Its Air Force is not airworthy Its Navy is not seaworthy Its Army is 2/3 the size of the Paris Police force. Its Coast Guard is unarmed. Its heavy ice breakers are 50-years-old. BUY some FIGHTER PLANES, ANY fighter planes.

@NoahGairn @pbontoast1 Here me out - Snowbirds on PC-21 fitted for/with light attack capes with a secondary role as counter one-way-attack drone (C-OWAD) platform... If someone is shooting drones at us, chances are the air shows are cancelled anyway.

FUHR RESPONDED TO THE SNOWBIRD CONTROVERSY skiesmag.com/opinions/a-pil…

@MuggyGrunt @SGarrisonSTL @RALee85 I happen to know Latvia is happy with Canada, having served there with the Latvians

@jankool37 @SGarrisonSTL @RALee85 Honest question: Do you believe Latvia would rather have canadians instead of any of the nationalities I just mentioned?

“The Canada-led NATO brigade in Latvia has moved beyond its original “tripwire” deterrence posture and is now focused on mounting a credible defense of the Baltic country bordering Russia, according to its commander, Col. Kris Reeves. Reeves said the shift towards what he described as “tactical credibility” has meant establishing forward locations and stationing troops near Latvia’s eastern border, in the terrain where they would actually fight in the event of a conflict, the Canadian commander told Defense News.” defensenews.com/global/europe/…

@MuggyGrunt @SGarrisonSTL @RALee85 You clearly have never read a history book

@SGarrisonSTL @RALee85 Latvia cares about having american soldiers, not canadians. hell even french or german soldiers. even polish soldiers would be more of a deterrent. Canadians? pls get a grip

@Prominent_Bryan Lived in the US for two years and absolutely missed e-transfers while I was there. Zillow, etc., is so much less convenient

I will never understand why Canadians insist e-transfer is better It isn't. It's always more annoying to use than the US system (or what they have in the rest of the world) I'm not saying interac e-transfer is terrible or unusable but it is objectively less convenient than Venmo, especially if you don't already have this person in your contacts It's weird how defensive Canadians are on this. Weird elbows up stuff. But it's always from people who have never experienced the system in the rest of the world

@ReiverHall Congrats Bill!

Always a good time when senior officers quote Tolkien during their speeches. Working full time and studying was challenging, but I was able to work through my mid-life crisis and finish an MA in War Studies.

Took a little drive with the family to Kingston today to see the sights.

@Moon_River05 @KensingtonRoyal @sueziad I wish you really were at a loss for words and had said nothing

@KensingtonRoyal @sueziad I don't care what her culture is, nor her religion nor whom she's honouring....that is the stupidest place for tattoo I've ever seen....I'm at a loss for words

A pleasure to meet with Māori Queen Te Arikinui Kuini Nga wai hono i te po today at Windsor Castle.

@major2571 @Harry__Faulkner She's an incredibly smart woman. Try to keep up

@Harry__Faulkner while i realize that media is often prepared but this sounds like straight up scripting with a fully prepared answer. like what kind of hoity toity gobeldegook is that word salad. "accede" - never heard or read this word before in my life.

Canada's next Governor General, Louise Arbour, is asked if she is a monarchist. Q: "Are you a monarchist?" A: "This term is unfortunately very often used in a pejorative way. What I can say is that I will accede to a function in which I will be the representative of the Crown, in a constitutional arrangement that I think has served Canada extremely well throughout our history, but even more in recent decades."

@Yarme1959415 @patriottakes He's a military officer posted to the US as part of the astronaut program... He's literally ordered to be there by Canada

@patriottakes Who lives and works in the US and still hasn’t visited Canada since he returned. Like most of our talent.

Astronaut Jeremy Hansen is from Canada… 🇨🇦🚀

@justinmassie1 @AlexRMcColl Can confirm that a ton of detailed analysis went into this... And also that resources aren't infinite

@AlexRMcColl Depending on the number of platforms to operate, the new units to set up (e.g., drone and counter-drone), and the composition of our expeditionary division, one could argue we need a larger regular force, closer to 120,000. We’re not provided evidence to support any force size.

A key issue not addressed here: for what specific purposes and threat scenarios do the Canadian Armed Forces need 85,500 regular force members, 100,000 primary reservists and 300,000 lightly trained citizen soldiers?

@ultraunvaxx @CQBVideo This does not appear to be a war crime

@CQBVideo The more I watch these drone attacks the more cowardly they become. They should be classified as war crimes.

An entire Russian squad gets wiped out by a single Ukrainian drone

@PatrickSchuess1 @Antus_Real @VLO225 No disagreement here!

@Antus_Real @jankool37 @VLO225 US design standards are, at this point, doing far more harm than good. A "good enough" warship underway beats a "perfect" warship that never leaves the design stage.

To elaborate there IS no highly readily producible ships that can replace the constellation in a ASW / FFG role . Both the Mogami and Korean FFG batch 3 class would require the same heavy overhaul that plagued the constellation , same Type 26 and others USN requirements for systems and other things will ultimately lead to a very different ship . A brand new class of ship would take nearly a decade or so to develop . This only leaves the LCS derivatives which nobody wants

@jla1810 @VLO225 @AleksnderZajac River will have infinite VLS when paired with arsenal UxS

@VLO225 @AleksnderZajac @jankool37 F110 block II It will have 48 cells vls

@ThomasWatsonCD @DavidGrebstad @CoastGuardCAN @ccg_acad We tried a non-degreed officer corps for most of our history as a military. Reforms in the 1990s put a halt to that for a bunch of valid reasons. Recommend checking out Horn - Forced to Change.

@DavidGrebstad @CoastGuardCAN @ccg_acad Hotter take: your right. Magma take: not all officers need a degree to be effective leaders. I really like how the UK generates officers.

You know….now that the @CoastGuardCAN is part of the DND you can’t convince me that the @ccg_acad shouldn’t be considered our East Coast Service Academy. Let’s farm baby NWO’s and NEO’s out to them! All floaty stuff all the time!

@TheRealKeean It's like you've never watched volleyball before

EXCLUSIVE: A massive transgender Lieutenant in the Canadian Armed Forces just smashed a volleyball going 95km/h into a girl's face, knocking her on her back, and throwing her feet in the air. The CAF won't say how many injuries have been caused by Trans military athletes. junonews.com/p/exclusive-vi…

@HDoesit63716 @MarcKieley He's serving his country. Least we could do is give me a hat

@MarcKieley Cute that yall made the Sikh his own special hat. 🤮

143 new sailors, soldiers, and aviators graduated BMQ today, but mostly soldiers! 80% of the graduates today are Army, so no surprise they swept the top athlete awards. Also cool to see almost 40 combat medics on the same graduation.