In some ways the Canadian action is very smart. No one, including the Russians or the USA know what the future military defense offense needs will be as the world transition from a cold war posture to the uncertain future.
Right now the entire world is in transitional phase as old threats are neutralized and new threats are emerging. Why hedge defense bets with reckless spending, in a situation where most bets will not pay off. The only thing sure to change is future military technology, which keeps getting better and better.
If a second class military power like Canada keeps buying first class equipment, two things are certain. (1) The bulk of their expenditures will both be misguided because it is almost certain to not address future needs, and be obsolete in a few years. (2) Canada can afford to lay back, save their money, because they are under no current military threat.
So to a large extent, Canada is better off saving their money, building their economy instead, and then when the world becomes better defined and they choose to resume military spending, they in Canada are in a better position to buy State of the arts technology to better address those future needs.
The things they do to continue funding the Queen Whore
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Photo op of a lifetime, and not a moment too soon. D:
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Somewhat wrong, as every military in the world knows. Its one thing to lose your military assets in combat, it is a combat risk, and even if the military asset is lost, there is always the chance that the lost plane may have gotten the bad guy too.
But when the military asset is lost in a non combat accident, its nothing but a dead loss waste. Maybe the biggest recent example was the Russian sub that went down in the Northern Russia, in a similar accident, all those young men lost, our fellow human beings, just lives pissed away for no gain.
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Somewhat wrong, as every military in the world knows. Its one thing to lose your military assets in combat, it is a combat risk, and even if the military asset is lost, there is always the chance that the lost plane may have gotten the bad guy too.
But when the military asset is lost in a non combat accident, its nothing but a dead loss waste. Maybe the biggest recent example was the Russian sub that went down in the Northern Russia, in a similar accident, all those young men lost, our fellow human beings, just lives pissed away for no gain.
Unfortunately, there has been a long history of training mishaps in the forces. Mostly from older equipment, but yeah, as you said, It always sucks to lose someone in such a way.