Ought Canada to automatize the military?

[Machjo]

While I agree that Canada should have a military of at least a hundred thousand strong"

I was thinking of the 100,000 more as a ceiling rather than a floor. I was even thinking, for bufget purposes, that such a force could even be shared among a few nations.

Unles we intend on taking over the world of course.

 

[Machjo]

By the way, who's the other guy who voted in favour besides myself?

 

[#juan]

Machjo wrote:

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While I agree that Canada should have a military of at least a hundred thousand strong"

I was thinking of the 100,000 more as a ceiling rather than a floor. I was even thinking, for bufget purposes, that such a force could even be shared among a few nations.

Unles we intend on taking over the world of course.

Regardless of whatever sharing programs we might have with other countries, Canada needs a military of at least a hundred thousand. Compared with other G-7 countries, Canada is ten times their size and we spend half as much on our military.

We'd have a very hard time taking over the world with a hundred thousand people in our military.

 

[darkbeaver]

While I agree that Canada should have a military of at least a hundred thousand strong, in the combined air, sea, and ground forces, the force should always be under the control of the elected government.

We the people should make it clear that the dismal condition that our military was allowed, by neglect, to slip into, is just not acceptable.

When I was in the service in the fifties, I believe we had around a hundred and twenty thousand in uniform. As far as I know our borders and coastlines haven't got any shorter, or the country any smaller.

I'm sure our WWO(Wing Warrant Officer) spun in his grave when half our equipment was stuck on a foreign ship.

While there was a time when I would have agreed with the safety of having the military under the control of an elected government that time has passed we know that the military of the United States and the UK and Canada are for all intents and purposes under the control of the transnational coporations in other words big money and not the people but a small and exclusive segment of those constituancys. While it might appear that democratically elected governments control those military forces that is a facade, a paint job.

 

[I think not]

that time has passed we know that the military of the United States and the UK and Canada are for all intents and purposes under the control of the transnational coporations

Who's we?

 

[MMMike]

Machjo, interesting idea and I can understand some of the rationnel, but in reality you can never really seperate war and politics. As Clausewitz said, "war is nothing but a continuation of politics by other means".

Your idea means rule of law fully trumping national sovereignty. Which I agree with to a certain extent (Canada's idea of Responsibility to Protect being a good example). But there's not a nation in the world that can't be accused of violating some aspect of international law. And the process for making that determination would become hopelessly political as well. Sorry, but this idea won't fly.

 

[Retired_Can_Soldier]

Darkbeaver:control of an elected government that time has passed we know that the military of the United States and the UK and Canada are for all intents and purposes under the control of the transnational coporations in other words big money and not the people but a small and exclusive segment of those constituancys. While it might appear that democratically elected governments control those military forces that is a facade, a paint job.

DBeaver: Do you really believe this stuff or are you just mixing it up and being provocative? I'm not getting personal either, I'm just wondering.

In your estimation, are the evil corporations directing the movement of Canadian Troops in Afghanistan. If so, for what? With the exception of opium and burka's Afghanistan has very few resources.

Perhaps the evil SANDBOX INDUSTRY? Eureka! Fisher Price. The evil Fisher Price is plotting to take all the worlds sand. LOL


Your goofing on this right?