Royal Canadian Navy Discussions and updates

[John Fedup]

Asia is indeed becoming more important for Canada however, we are in a formalized military alliance with NATO and have legitimate/larger scale commitments there than we have in the Pacific. We have fundamentally limited resources and when it comes down to cold hard logic, we have to maintain our relationship with NATO as that is where a great deal of value comes from for Canada. [/QUOTE}

Not objecting but focus needs to be monitored as Asia is on the up-swing, Europe hopefully as well but.....

If the reliability of the Panama Canal is being seriously discussed for Canadian military use, we have far more serious issues at stake than simply moving warships from coast to coast. [/QUOTE}
No argument there

I don't tend to entertain that sort of talk as its fundamentally out of the scope of reality

Given recent events, the Ukraine invasion, Trump's trashing of the global trade order along with his threats to Greenland and Canadian sovereignty plus the Iranian war...not sure about " your out of the scope of reality comment".

We aren't sending frontline combatants out to many of these theatres like Africa, it is second line non-combatants like the AOPS or MCDV's doing these roles.

My view is AOPS and/MCDVs in Africa shouldn't be a RCN mission