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"Stop Starving the Navy (RCN)"!!!!- newspaper editorial

Let's see if our MPs in Ottawa will deliver on this past 2015...http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2014/12/30/national-post-editorial-board-stop-starving-the-navy/#__federated=1National Post...

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"The home front has known nothing but peace for nearly 70 years." Canadians have been to a lot of wars and in the Cold War as part of NATO, they opposed the USSR. I don't know exactly what you expect...

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In near total ignorance of the Royal Canadian Navy situation, I would not be surprised if the politics and problems in Canada were not remarkably similar to that in Australia. Let me guess, there will...

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What I ment by on the home front is Direct attack on the Canadian or Australian mainlands. No one wants to spend money on the military unless there are bombs being dropped on your capitol city. As for...

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Skipper101, I think that you are a bit loose with your time measurements. Recently the Government of Canada did not sign a contract to build some patrol boats for patrolling the Arctic Ocean. The...

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The decisions to build the AWD's and LHD's were made in 2006 though with significant lead time beforehand. As it stand's the Future submarine and Frigate orders are expected this year, so it is a bit...

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People seem to be comparing Canada to Australia. Probably because they are of similar size. Strategically they are probably more comparable to New Zealand. There is no actual threat to their security...

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sam mk2 wrote: Frankly I could make a pretty good argument for reducing their navy to not much more than a Coast Guard with a small expeditionary fleet to meet its NATO responsibilities .You mean as...

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It would seem that the Canadian Navy could get away with not have sophisticated AA ship's as all their neighbours would seem to have the well covered from Japan to the West, the US to the south and...

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Skipper101, your optimistic confidence gives me hope that I am being too cynical. Were I you, I would look for references on the woeful standard of productivity before I quoted the present or past...

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"I will need some convincing that we could not have accelerated our patrol boat purchases and brought forward our frigate programs" IIRC that is being looked at, and I suspect that if the Submarine's...

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This is highjacking a canadian thread, but I couldnt help but comment on some of the issues raised here. There is more than one large dry dock in Australia, interested parties might want to look up...

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Has the Broken Hills shipyard site (Whyalla Shipbuilding and Engineering Works) been redeveloped? The largest ship built there was the tanker Amanda Miller, 66,800 tons 780' x 109' x 43' - launched...

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Although I certainly agree that a ration ship building program is preferable, I don't think it at all likely, Australian Governments only spend money on defence when it has to, there are far more...

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Badger, my father in law was a crane operator at the Whyala yard back then. It has not re opened and is never likely too. Skipper, I guess that was my point, the issue is not one of infrastructure but...

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skipper101 wrote:Unfortunately the home front has known nothing but peace for nearly 70 years Skipper: do you really wish people war at home? With all the misery and suffering attached? That's sick man.

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Re: "Stop Starving the Navy (RCN)"!!!!- newspaper editorial

Of course I don't wish people to experience war at home, not by any measure, to be quite honest I don't want them to know war any where. my point is simply that while bomb's are not dropping the...

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Skipper, neither Japan nor Germany [never mind Italy] seriously threatened the Canadian homeland much less bombed it. As I said before, it is hard to fault Canadian participation in conflicts both for...

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jim3au wrote:Skipper, neither Japan nor Germany [never mind Italy] seriously threatened the Canadian homeland much less bombed Wrong. The Japanese submarine I-26. was able to surface in early 1942 and...

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More to the point there was a realistic threat that it could have happened, as the whole Empire was at war. The point I am trying to make is that 1st world people are complacent these day's as modern...

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And there are people out there who quite honestly believe that the war mongering militarists working for their corporate master's did that in order to justify that war. Oddly enough they're...

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