Recent content by Brad Sallows

Sure. But that's not enough for the people who are net losers or otherwise feeling pressured. The establishment does well, and talks among itself as if the only people in the world who matter have post-secondary educations and work in public service. "Well, we're the polite faction" doesn't...

Centrists need to ask themselves what part they played in driving the "loons" to take over, and follow up asking what they can do themselves to change. Populism is just appeal to the masses. Why don't the centrists appeal to the masses? Did they lose their appeal; if so, why? Could they...

Up-armouring to meet a threat is a losing proposition (there is always a bigger fish). For vehicles not intended to fight mounted in the mix against anything short of tanks, settle for wheels (optimize for non-tactical mobility), ballistic protection up to .50 inclusive, hull design to mitigate...

Nothing wrong with consultation as long as everyone remembers that not everyone should be consulted on everything all of the time.

There is a role for amphibious equipment if you really need to force a crossing site. But if you're fighting at that level, you have corps or army amphibious equipment units, not every-vehicle-a-swimmer.

The thing about old folks disconnected from how young people experience things differently is that young folks are equally disconnected from how old people experienced things differently. What's the same across time is that people whine about the way things are; what's different across time is...

Today's recruits are unlikely to be better than yesterday's. But they are likely to have led much more comfortable home lives growing up.

As long as the factors are identical, the name doesn't matter.

Part of what the Forces must absolutely be able to do is train nearly any person above the fifth percentile (or so) to do a useful military job. While it's reasonable to chase the best prospects available in peacetime, the risk is forgetting how to work with all of the people available.

Training always did have unlockable things. "If you achieve X, you get to leave barracks this Saturday."

If Gladue Reports are worthwhile, then they should be applied to everyone with background problems, not people with background problems who belong to a specific ethnic ground.

An alternative to reducing standards/expectations is to increase close supervision, austerity, and training designed to improve the raw material. Might mean more staff, more time, different location.

That's like dealing with rust on the car by painting over it instead of keeping it parked in a garage. "Disparate impacts" almost always result from earlier fundamental factors upstream. Family life and education are two big ones.

Should be a way to sell how service can help a person grow from teenage high school graduate to mature confident competent adult capable of leading other adults (small teams) in a few years. Not sure exactly how.

About the invasion bottleneck... (Twitter thread).