Here are some of today's news -- this isn't everything, of course, like I'm not including anything on the AI sky-is-falling scare that I don't understand anyway - but I've gathered up some interesting posts.
Canada military restructure and alliances
#Ottawa - The #Canadian military officially restructured a section of the army on Thursday to serve as its main fighting force in a major war, marking the latest in an ongoing drive to prepare for large-scale combat including the defence of #Canada itself 🇨🇦 #Cdnmilitary share.google/NfTvsTEzk6Ty...
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The CBC reports:
..."This is a big change," Maj.-Gen. Wade Rutland, commander of the new 1st Canadian Division, said in an interview.I'm looking forward to reporting from Black Cloud Six and Wesley Wark to analyze these changes.
"This is not an exercise in restructuring the deck chairs. We're doing this in order to be more agile, more lethal, more relevant to defend Canada."
Rutland said the threat environment has changed and the world is returning to large-scale combat operations with hundreds of thousands of soldiers, like the ones in Ukraine.
"We realized that we needed to stand up what we call a war fighting division, which will bring together thousands of troops able to integrate air, cyber, space effects and actually contribute as a really trusted ally into that likely future fight," he said.
It's part of a series of structural changes ordered by Lt.-Gen. Michael Wright, who laid out his plan to modernize the army in a 2025 document titled Inflection Point.
Alongside the manoeuvre division, the army is setting up a support division, which will be run out of Kingston, Ont.
The army also is standing up a "defence of Canada" division based out of Montreal, to be known as the 2nd Canadian Division. It's made up largely of part-time soldiers and will focus on national emergencies and domestic defence....
