that was supposed to change the culture of the CAF puzzles me greatly. Civilians aren't always right, but autonomous militaries left to their own devices is a recipe for mission failure. 5/5

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CAF folks, past and present, complain about too much civilian oversight, and while there is heaps of civilian attention to procurement, there was not much paid to personnel or operations or ... professional military education. That CDS Carignan signed off on this after heading the command 4/

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Reading this piece about the Royal Military College and post-Arbour report reforms and you can't find anything in it about how the Defence Minister agreed to reduce civilian oversight www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/educa... Lots of rah rah in this--making RMC more military, but 1/x

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but that either justifies or ignores the reduction of civilian oversight. Letting the military do what it wants hasn't worked thus far, so let's do more of that? Not great, very much against the spirit of the Arbour report. Once again, it raises key question: who is overseeing the CAF? 2/

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No idiot since the beginning of time has ever been in a position to do so much damage to so many people as a consequence of his malfeasance as Trump. No one.

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