Western Standard - Canada’s Military Breakdown： More Generals Than Tanks, Jets, or Ships？

00:00:00.000 get your elbows up boys canada's back mark carney's gonna make canada great again

00:00:28.240 and pull the military up by its bootstraps hooah chief of defense staff and weepy dei general jenny 1.00

00:00:35.360 kerringan signed a directive to increase the size of canada's reserve forces from 25 500 to 400 000

00:00:43.280 for those rubbing their eyes at that number that's a 16-fold increase cue the laugh track

00:00:52.160 canada's already paltry reserve force has thus far failed to ever hit its personnel target

00:00:57.600 of 30 000 every single year since it was set in 2017 when it was 26 500. even if the canadian

00:01:06.080 armed forces were fully funded and furnished with adequate equipment and resources it's just not

00:01:11.360 going to happen at least not without conscription the thing is the federal government and the senior

00:01:16.240 military leadership appointed by it openly loathe the very things that have traditionally fueled

00:01:22.160 voluntary military recruitment the new military prioritizes dei in its recruitment and promotion

00:01:29.520 this is a problem for a profession that by its very nature is attractive to nationalistic young

00:01:34.960 white men on aggregate they tend to like guns struggle comradeship and feeling a part of something

00:01:40.560 meaningful when they join a nation's armed forces they feel pride in the uniform other demographics are

00:01:46.320 great and welcome but the main source of recruits has been made to feel decidedly unwelcome the planned

00:01:52.640 wildly unrealistic sextupling of the reserve force got me to thinking just how top heavy is our new

00:01:58.720 dei army navy and air force too many chiefs and not enough indians doesn't quite do justice to how

00:02:04.400 upside down our military has become we've got 145 flag officers that is officers with the rank of general or

00:02:12.720 admiral including commodores which are the navy's equivalent to an army or air force brigadier general

00:02:18.240 of this an estimated 27 are in the navy 27 in the air force and 77 in the army another 15 are in joint

00:02:25.600 commands across the branches or organizations like norad so how many indians are our chiefs leading

00:02:32.160 lock and load this is going to be good as of january 2025 the royal canadian army had just 82

00:02:40.320 leopard 2 main battle tanks and its armored forces but due to maintenance issues only 41 were combat

00:02:46.080 ready that means that for every combat ready main battle tank canada has nearly two generals crazy you

00:02:54.400 say maybe but it could make for a rather direct command structure if canada were to ever mount a

00:03:00.960 defense against an invasion from say vatican city we could have one general pilot the tank and another

00:03:07.040 general man the gun with our top brass so close to the action their orders would be immediately

00:03:12.160 followed without any hesitation the royal canadian air force is in slightly better shape on paper we

00:03:18.320 have 88 cf-18 hornet fighter jets mostly built in 1980 of that only 30 to 35 are combat ready well

00:03:27.200 let's be generous and round up to the high end of that figure that means that our air force would

00:03:33.200 almost have one general piloting every single fighter jet in operation if you're not gonna

00:03:37.920 have a big air force then you better put your best man where it counts right and the vaunted royal

00:03:42.560 canadian navy the floating force that ended the second world war as the third largest navy on the

00:03:48.240 planet well it's got six to eight combat ready warships mostly halifax class frigates again let's round

00:03:55.840 up to eight to be generous in this exercise with 27 flag officers that means that we have

00:04:01.760 more than three admirals for every single combat ready warship in the royal canadian navy with the

00:04:08.320 deck so crowded they might need to bunk up but perhaps i'm being unfair in april the royal canadian

00:04:14.000 navy posted on x that the hmcs cornerbrook was upgraded and ready for operations they said and i

00:04:19.520 quote freshly upgraded it's now the most advanced submarine in the canadian fleet correction the hmcs

00:04:28.320 cornerbrook is the only submarine in the canadian fleet one diesel submarine built in the 1980s to patrol

00:04:38.320 the largest coastline of any country on the planet but we can rest assured that the cornerbrook will

00:04:45.280 be well commanded with three admirals aboard if we combined every single one of the 145 generals and

00:04:51.680 admirals in the canadian armed forces and gave each of them a fighter jet tanker warship they would outnumber

00:04:57.520 their equipment by nearly two to one canada has nearly two generals or admirals for every operational

00:05:03.920 fighter jet tank and warship in operation canada's armed forces have been in decline for a very very

00:05:11.440 long time with a moderate resurgence during the first half of the harper government that blip wasn't

00:05:17.280 enough to reverse the damage of decades of neglect and since then the imposition of radical progressivist

00:05:23.600 ideology into the command structure has destroyed its meritocracy and martial culture i grew up in

00:05:29.440 military towns and dreamed for most of my bud of joining the navy's ranks if i had done so perhaps i'd

00:05:35.440 be an admiral by now and get to command the engine room of the hmcs cornerbrook thank god i didn't and

00:05:41.600 based on the truly wretched state of our forces it's doubtful that we'll be meeting our 400 000 man

00:05:46.960 recruitment target anytime soon

Western Standard - November 09, 2025

Canada’s Military Breakdown： More Generals Than Tanks, Jets, or Ships？

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