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A new electric aircraft is being developed and (apparently) soon to be marketed. While the current version can be considered a fairly expensive toy, the idea of an all electric VTOL without complex mving wings or rotors is very interesting, and it should be possible to scale this idea. These...

Well maybe not everything, but this article argues that a common mistranslation has seriously affected how "we" in the West understand both Clausewitz and how we apply his ideas to warfare: https://thediplomat.com/2014/11/everything-you-know-about-clausewitz-is-wrong/ While we have moved away...

Not entirely clear where this should go, so if the Mods have a better place for it, then be my guest. https://mythaxis.com/2020/10/28/stupefying-stories-an-interview-with-bruce-bethke/

Guided bullets fired from .50 sniper rifles. Yet another way to ruin your day: https://nationalinterest.org/blog/reboot/military-snipers-could-soon-be-using-guided-bullets-169616 Military Snipers Could Soon Be Using "Guided" Bullets It's all thanks to a DARPA project. by Kyle Mizokami The...

An interesting article which looks at adversaries in a different way. By stressing the "evolutionary" nature of warfare, where actions are met with responses, which spawn new measures and countermeasures, it suggests that in many ways, "we" might end up on the wrong end of the learning curve...

While this may have been discussed before, I have not found any mention. During the Soviet era, the USSR created hyper detailed maps of many Western cities. Those maps were almost like the Google Maps of its day, as they not only documented every street and avenue, but also the measurements and...

Not really clear where to put this, but it certainly speaks poorly of how well "we" acculturalize people into accepting and adopting Canadian values when they come to Canada to live...

Not really an aircraft the way we usually think of it, but rather a hybrid of an airship and an airplane. It seems to work a bit like the Seaglider  UUV by changing displacement. A silent, long endurance UAV would be an interesting addition to the ISTAR suite, and depending on how scalable it...

Probably an idea which comes up every decade or so, but this seems to be more serious than most attempts to float the idea. While the issue of merchant vessels being slower and not built to the same standards as warships is entirely true, it occurs to me the best place for this sort of...

An interesting opinion piece which essentially writes off Canada. I was annoyed at first, but then really began thinking about my own lived experiences in Canada and on deployment. Many indicators pointed out in the article are quite true. I have also personally experienced the decline of...

The 1990 era deployment to the Balkans left a lot of people damaged by the horrific conditions they encountered (and the inability to do anything about it under the UN ROE's). This story tells of how one of the survivors of the civil wars eventually reached out to some of the Canadians who were...

Short excerpt in Russia in the 21rst Century thread Full RFE article here: https://www.rferl.org/a/russian-mercenaries-vagner-commanders-syria/29100402.html

Given the topic of the DPRK is current news right now, I had hoped a single "Long article" thread could be maintained. A short version is in the North Korea Superthread: http://observer.com/2018/03/how-donald-trump-got-north-korea-open-to-giving-up-its-nuclear-weapons/

OF course, the collapse of the DPRK has been predicted many times before, but this article suggests that the force behind collapsing the noxious regime of the DPRK is going to be China. I'm still inclined to think the article "When North Korea Falls" by Robert Kaplan still is a valid thought...

Interesting TedX talk about the origin of the term "Fake News" in this article. As always, the key observation is "follow the money", and you will be surprised(?) at who bankrolled it: https://pjmedia.com/video/sharyl-attkisson-explains-tedx-talk-origins-2016-fake-news-narrative/...

Strategy Page has been running daily photos lately. The most recent ones have been on the Viet Nam war, with today (13 Feb 2021) being a shot of the ONTOS fire support vehicle advancing in the city of Hue during the Tet Offensive. Interesting stuff...

Real Clear Defence has a very interesting article looking at the factors behind the Schlieffen Plan. The plan has always been one of the central planks in the histories of the Great War, so this brings it more into focus...

From the National Post: http://nationalpost.com/opinion/andrew-coyne-an-attractive-place-to-invest-are-you-serious-prime-minister Serious indeed.

Long article posted here as well: https://army.ca/forums/threads/111880/post-1514570.html#msg1514570 https://strategypage.com/qnd/russia/articles/20171219.aspx Russia: Avoiding The Judgement Of China December 19, 2017: Russia ends 2017 still trying to hide the damage done by over three years...

Artillery modernization in Poland. Considering we are still kvetching over rebuilding 105mm howitzers..... https://strategypage.com/htmw/htart/articles/20171222.aspx