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starryniteshade

12 Step Program to posting more

Nov 03, 2010 16:10

masqthephlsphr has suggested I update more often - implying that once per year was just not enough. LOL

However, habits die hard. It's important to recognize when you need help. So I went in search of a 12 step program for posting more often, that is, more often than once per year. Side bar comment: I do see that more than once per year is valuable otherwise ( Read more... )

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A Work One... dlgood November 5 2010, 13:10:51 UTC

In the industry press, who do you read? As an American in the maritime defense sector, which media outlets will give me an accurate picture of Canadian defense issues, or how the Canadian press and defense establishment views the US?

To the extent that I see stories out of the Canadian press, it's mostly the Globe and Mail, but even pretty rarely that...

Re: A Work One... starryniteshade November 6 2010, 00:07:07 UTC

We don't really have a great defence press. There's the Canadian Defence Review, which is mostly about official stuff. I don't think I ever recall anything in it about the US. By and large our press is EXTREMELY uninformed when it comes to defence issues ( ... )

Re: A Work One... starryniteshade November 6 2010, 00:14:33 UTC

I've pretty much been working in the homeland security / emergency management area for the past 4 years. I've not really kept up with the defence side of things, but how would you know that? I never post!

Re: A Work One... dlgood November 6 2010, 13:27:21 UTC

Yes, I suppose I wouldn't know that... It's interesting to me, because it wasn't until I shifted more to media side that I realized how absent Canada is from the maritime security press. Of course, our big stories are mostly Horn of Africa/Piracy. Britain and France have been all over the press, but no Canada...

Re: A Work One... starryniteshade November 6 2010, 13:54:37 UTC

One reason for not posting about my job in the last couple of years was because of my involvement in the Olympics. Being involved in a real operation means not talking about it, but now that's over.

I think reasons for the absence of Canada on the maritime side are (1) the attention of the Canadian Forces has been on Afghanistan and (2) the re-capitalization until now has been for the army and air force. The navy's turn will come, but the priorities were (1) re-equip the army for Afghanistan and (2) re-equip the air force (to support the army).

By the way, you may or may not be aware that the casualty rate (casualties per deployed troops) for the Canadian army in Afghanistan is, by far, the highest of any nation providing forces for the NATO mission there. I was aware of this 2 years ago, but they're only officially starting to examine why in the last year.

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