Anyone have any principled reasons why Canada SHOULDN'T participate?

"Connectivity has become as important to war as supply lines." Control the RF spectrum and you control the battlespace. Enabling friendly communication while denying the enemy, all while staying as "hidden" as possible is now the name of the game. The battle over the RF spectrum is one of the biggest drivers in autonomous systems able to find, fix, and finish targets without relying on any sort of RF spectrum comms.

We're looking at you, PSPC...

21st century security challenges are truly omnidomain. The battlespace knows no limits. Prepare accordingly.

"The U.S. has increased shell production by 178 percent since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. In the same time period, Canada has increased its regular artillery shell production by about zero percent." Canada's preeminent munitions manufacturer, @IMT Group is opening a new production facility to meet AMERICAN demand. Canada has budgeted $1.8 billion for munitions, but those funds don't start to flow until 2027. Let this all sink in.

Japan is both recognizing crisis and reacting appropriately.

Helping bring to market disruptive defence and security capabilities is much more than a lifestyle - it's the mission.

Consensus has seemingly emerged around increased defence spending, but does it reflect the views of the electorate and our governing parties? If there isn't consensus amongst the parties, it's high time that the opposition stake out how their policies will be substantively different. If they wont be, let's move get the non-partisan ball rolling.

Trading security for speed to keep up with the ever evolving battlespace is not without risk. Somewhere in Russia, some polonium tea is steeping. Telegram has become a de facto part of the Russian PACE plan, with forces sending intelligence, targeting data, drone feeds, and more over the network. It will be interesting to see if Durov's detention, and fears of him disclosing information, will impact the use of Telegram going forward.

Canada is a world leader in materials science, and Equispheres, a local Ottawa company that's part of the ONE9 ecosystem, is the world leader in aluminum powder for 3D printing. It's homegrown, breakthrough dual-use technologies like this that will allow Canada, and our allies, to meet the manufacturing demands of the 21st century.

Do we ACTUALLY need tanks when we're a kilometre wide and a centimetre deep!? Canada should maximally leverage sub-surface and airborne autonomy in support of sovereignty and continental domain awareness, while maintaining light, agile, and technologically enabled expeditionary forces in support of allied commitments.

SOF elements continue to be the test beds for the new technologies and tactics that are ultimately adopted by conventional forces. As new technologies enter the battlespace, offering new capabilities, we must not forget our legal and moral obligations to minimize harm to protected persons and objects.