MILNEWS.ca: Inbox Highlights, 5 November 2018

 

Veterans & Helping Veterans (or Not?)

• Ooopsie …
• “Ottawa short-changed more than 270,000 veterans on pensions, disability payments”
• “Liberals and Conservatives confirm support for NDP plan to ‘end the theft’ of money meant to help veterans”
• “Erreur de comptabilité en défaveur des vétérans entre 2003 et 2010”
• “Veterans Ombudsman uncovers an estimated $165 million accounting error shortchanging thousands of Veterans receiving a disability pension” (Ombudsman info-machine)
• “Minister of Veterans Affairs issues statement on compensation for corrective adjustments to annual Disability Pension calculations between 2003 and 2010” (VAC info-machine)
• “Projet pilote au Québec de GardaWorld et La Patrie gravée sur le cœur pour les anciennes combattantes”
• “Veterans Ombudsman Awards 2018 Commendations”
• “Lightening the Burden for Ontario’s Legion Halls — Ontario’s Government for the People reiterated its commitment to ease the burden on Ontario’s Royal Canadian Legion halls by ensuring they pay no property tax and looks forward to tabling legislation shortly …” (Gov’t of Ontario info-machine)

Way Up North

• “Media Opportunity (6 & 7 Nov) with Canadian Commanders following successful NATO Exercise TRIDENT JUNCTURE 2018” (DND info-machine)
• “A SAPPER from 5 Combat Engineer Regiment (5RGC), Canadian Military Engineers, mans his gun and scouts the terrain during NATO exercise Trident Juncture 2018, in Kivkne, Norway on November 4th, 2018 …” (Pentagon info-machine photo)
• More CAN pix from the Pentagon info-machine
• “Russian Navy Tu-142 Flies “Over” USS Mount Whitney involved in Ex. Trident Juncture in the Norwegian Sea”
• “Trident Juncture 18: Tupolev russe au-dessus du navire amiral USS Mount Whitney”
• “Russian recon aircraft makes low pass over NATO command ship”
• “Russian spy plane shows up uninvited during massive NATO war games in the Arctic”
• “Russia turns up uninvited to major NATO wargames”
• “Arctic Yearbook’s 2018 edition focuses on China in the Arctic”
• “Is the Arctic Route the Future of Shipping?”
• “Russia expects China to enter Arctic LNG-2 project” (RUS media)
• “Murmansk Shipping Company enters agreement to deliver coal along Northern Sea Route”
• “Russian Arctic Sea Route Shipping More Than Quadruples in 5 Years”
• “Russian Warnings That A War With Extraterrestrials Has Started In The Arctic”

#LVA/Europe – Op REASSURANCE/Cold War 2.0

• “Force opérationnelle aérienne en Roumanie: un bilan à mi-mandat”
• Latest DND info-machine pix of CAN tps in Latvia
• “We call on Canada to work with Europe to save the INF Treaty” (ceasefire.ca)
• “Finland ready to back new nuclear disarmament talks, says president Niinistö”
• “NATO Stocks Up on Bombs, Giving Smaller States More Punch”
• “Iron Wolf military exercise kicks off in Lithuania”
• “How Estonia Secures Its Electronic Elections From Kremlin Attacks”
• “Russian Military Budget Cuts Are No Olive Branch”
• “Russia’s Giant Dry Dock Sank With an Aircraft Carrier Inside”
• “Nuclear Subs Starving the Fleet (Part I)” (Russian Defense Policy blog)
• “BELARUS: WE’RE WITH RUSSIA AND WILL RESPOND MILITARILY IF POLAND HOSTS U.S BASE” (pro-RUS site)
• “Successful launch of a Glonass-M satellite” (Russian strategic nuclear forces blog)
• “Foreign Affairs Ministers meetings – Brussels, 4-5 December 2018” (NATO info-machine)
• “Russia Predicts Next Presidential Election Could Cause a Second American Civil War”

#UKR – Op UNIFIER

• “Danger Zone: Russian Fighter Comes ‘Really, Really Close’ To Navy Plane (over Black Sea)”
• “A Russian Su-27 fighter jet has intercepted a US Navy EP-3E Aries spy plane over the Black Sea and escorted it away in compliance with security and safety requirements, Russia’s Defense Ministry said on Monday …” (RUS media)
• “Russian Su-27 Intercepts US Spy Aircraft Over Black Sea – US Navy” (RUS media)
• “JFO conducts air defense and strike aviation exercises in Donbas”
• “Ukraine’s Joint Forces conduct air defense, combat drills in Donbas”
• “Kyiv Says Ukrainian Soldier, Three Separatist Fighters Killed In East”
• “Donbas war update: One Ukraine soldier killed, four wounded in past day”
• “14th brigade fighter Maksym Pasychnyuk dies in Donbas conflict zone”
• “Ukrainian air defense units, warplanes underwent combat readiness test, – JFO HQ”
• “Volunteers published new data on Russian paratroopers who participated in occupation of Crimea”
• “Soldiers of the 34th Brigade and Private Kozlov Reveal Russia’s Military Secrets” (InformNapalm.org)
• “Poroshenko: Ukraine would welcome Turkish peacekeepers’ deployment to Donbas”
• “Former Principal Deputy Chief Monitor of the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) to Ukraine Alexander Hug has said he doesn’t consider Russia an aggressor country …” (UKR media)
• “Former deputy head of OSCE SMM in Ukraine Alexander Hug claimed he did not treat Russia as an aggressor state. He said this in his interview to the Ukrainian press …” (UKR media)
• “Former First Deputy Head of the OSCE in Ukraine Alexander Hug Does Not Consider Russia to be an Aggressor” (pro-RUS page)
• “French observer: Elections of Donbass leadership are rightful, transparent and logical”
• ” “Frozen Conflict” In Eastern Ukraine Seems Not So Frozen. More Casualties Reported As Clashes Erupt” (pro-RUS site)
• “The leader of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Kyiv Patriarchate says steps toward independence from Moscow must be carried out carefully to avoid giving the Kremlin a pretext for further Russian incursions into Ukrainian territory …”

#CANinIRQ/Mid East – Op IMPACT

• “Nato Mission Iraq begins work to boost security institutions”
• “Iraq deploys soldiers in border with Syria”
• “Iraq Kurdistan’s trade ties with Iran remain active – official”
• “Assessing Turkey’s Future Role in the Middle East” (Divergent Options paper)

#MLI – Op PRESENCE/Africa

• “Burkina : un combattant d’Al-Mourabitoune suspecté d’être le coordonnateur des attentats de Ouaga”
• “W.Africa security forum opens amid concerns over G5 Sahel force”

Internal Security

• In Canada …
• “Letter to senior Canadian ISIS member complains about sandwich shortage”
• “How Canada barred adoptions from Muslim countries — and used Shariah law to do it”
• “Too many of Trudeau’s errors in judgment have a common thread – radical Islam” (Toronto Sun)
• … and Elsewhere
  
• “The Release and Community Supervision of Radicalised Offenders (in Australia): Issues and Challenges that Can Influence Reintegration” (Terrorism and Political Violence journal)
• “(U//FOUO) U.S. Army North Operation Faithful Patriot Presentation” (Public Intelligence blog)

What’s Canada Buying?

• “QinetiQ Target Systems and Canadian UAVs Sign Memorandum of Understanding for Commercial and Military UAV Services in Canada” (company info-machine)

Mental Health in the CAF

• “Statement on Veterans’ Week from the Mental Health Commission of Canada”

Other Military News

• “Military’s top commander applauds Legion’s Silver Cross Mother appointment”
• “La Juge avocat général des Forces canadiennes reçoit le Prix du juriste du secteur public”
• “The best explosive threat is one that never exists” (Canadian Army Today)
• “… What we do not want and cannot afford is people who cannot do their job under harsh, difficult, stressful conditions … that means we need people who are both physically and mentally fit. The late, great Field Marshall Lord Wavell called it “robustness,” and he defined it as the capacity to withstand the shocks of war …” (Col. Ted)

Afghanistan

• “Canada’s role in failed Afghanistan mission needs probe”

Remembering

• “Conscription divided Canada . It also helped win the First World War.”
• “Ottawa is doing a lousy job of honouring Canada’s fallen from WWI”
• “Canadian Armed Forces personnel arrive in Europe to support commemorations for 100th anniversary of the end of the First World War” (DND info-machine)
• “Government of Canada encourages the public in the Ottawa area to participate in key Veterans’ Week activities” (VAC info-machine)
• “Harjit Sajjan: To our soldiers and veterans, please know your sacrifices are not in vain”

#CHN/Pacific Rim

• “China, Distrusted in Asia’s Chief Maritime Dispute, Offers to Share Data”

The Koreas

• “Koreas, UN Command to hold talks over (Joint Security Area) disarmament”
• “DPRK Notches Up the Warnings” (38 North)
• “Toward a Ban on Deployment and Production of Kim’s Missiles” (38 North)
• “N.Korea ‘Still Mining Uranium’ “

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