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November 7th, 2005

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Like a ripe maple leaf ready to be plucked

Canada is the world’s second largest country and has the longest national coastline. Despite this, they have just 9,000 Navy personnel!

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felipe the latinlover
November 7, 2005
1:20 pm
9.000 persons?? Venezuela if i am worng have like 20.000 mens maybe less, it hink is because canada is peacefl country without enemys, because i never heard somebody to do the jihad of the holy war against canada or anybody try to fight the imperial power of canada, so peaceful and without enemys i dont think that need a big budget or giant amred forces to defne his territory of a enemy doesnt exist.

and also with the new technology made that person can do the funtions of three or four persons is mean, with the technology you cand o more with less men so you dont need massieve troops or giants numbers to be military strongest in the modern world.

bye god bless you
J. Kende
November 7, 2005
4:39 pm
What is this Canada you speak of?

Northern Territories of the United States of America is a bit clumsy, but has a certain ring to it.
Chief Wiggum
November 7, 2005
5:03 pm
Canada does not belong to the so-called "Canadians" who live there now. That land was claimed long ago, and is the rightful property, of the descendants of vikings who settled at L'Anse aux Meadows in Newfoundland. As you read this, a massive invasion force is being mobilized in Iceland. New Iceland for the Icelanders!
ElamBend
November 7, 2005
6:09 pm
It's called free-riding under the umbrella your neighbor's navy. It can be a problem, though when European fisherman are over fishing your fisheries (heehee) and all you have is an old frigate to ward them off.
sun bin
November 7, 2005
6:26 pm
Do you have any figure on the "liquid" coastline in winters? :)
Mike
November 8, 2005
2:42 am
I'm coming in a rowboat with a kitchen knife, I've always wanted a summer estate in British Columbia. 48-40 Or Fight!
Younghusband
November 8, 2005
4:31 am
Okay all you Yankee bastards, this is how it is: most of that coastline is in the frozen north (think of all those little islands) which is defended by the Rangers. Our Navy is split into 3 fleets (MarPac, MarlAnt, Reserve) There are "30 surface ships, four submarines":http://www.navy.forces.gc.ca/mspa_fleet/fleet_home_e.asp and 9,500 sailors in Canada's navy. At the end of WWII, Canada had the third-largest fleet in the world, after the US and the UK. The Navy has suffered many cutbacks and admittedly is lacking good equipment. It is true that being beside the US gives us the luxury. The only thing we really defend against are illegal fishing and militant protesters attacking seal hunters: classic "SLOC":http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_lines_of_communication defense. The organizing principle is more Corbett than Mahan, which by the way only the US can pull off these days, thus comparison is impossible. Hopefully "Eddie":http://fdnf.typepad.com/live_from_the_fdnf/ can chip in with some more info.
snow
November 8, 2005
4:14 pm
The Canadian military has some good soldiers, even though for reasons of political correctness, they disbanded such good fighting forces as the VanDoos for the nastiness of a few soldiers in Somalia (that really pissed me off, as I figured, why couldn't they just throw the book at the bad boys and perhaps revamp and still keep the unit going? Just more PC bs).
Norman Long
November 8, 2005
11:16 pm
They didn't disband the Vandoos, they disbanded the Para's which had a unit of the Vandoos, along with units of the RCR and PPCLI. They still train paratroops today though.