For those not in the know, which I imagine is most people:
The CAF has been undergoing a project called "Operation Honour", begun by the previous Chief of Defence Staff, General Vance. Ostensibly enacted in response to allegations of sexual misconduct by Canadian soldiers, it has grown and incorporated every aspect of leftist ideology. Canadian troops are required to undergo Operation Honour briefings at least once a year. The content of these briefings is generally more reasonable than one might assume (think 2010 leftist propoganda rather than 2021), but does include being browbeaten into, for example, thought policing each other for making jokes at the expense of the rainbow mafia.
The primary stated goal of Operation Honour is to "change the culture" of our armed forces. There is good news and bad news on this front. In my experience (i.e. generally with the lower-to-middle enlisted ranks), the troops know that the propaganda is horseshit and continue to act privately among each other the way they always have. The bad news is that publicly the fear of being "Op Honour'd" has indeed changed the culture of the armed forces into one of mistrust and reluctance to engage with unfamiliar personnel. I also can't speak as to the private opinions of out officers, but being as they require a university degree I would expect the beliefs and values of Op Honour are held sincerely by a higher proportion of them (not to mention the value of Op Honour to the sort of careerist backstabber that the comission can attract).
As I implied earlier, I am a part of the CAF myself, and I unfortunately have a higher involvement in Op Honour due to my trade than most. I have to say, the damage to morale and espirit de corps that Op Honour has caused have made me doubt our capacity to do our jobs under any kind of real pressure. The worst part, however, is that I can't see any way of effectively resisting the leftism in the short or long term. There is no way our government will allow Op Honour to end, and there is no realistic hypothetical future government that will either.
Few people understand the impact of Stalin's military purges had during Operation Barbarossa. It ended up costing the Soviet Union millions of lives more than necessary, both civilian and military. The war through ~Stalingrad was a horrific meat grinder of incompetence on the part of the Soviet Union as they barely hung on at the cost of slowing down German tanks with stacks of bodies. After that, Hitler's stubbornness cost their army millions as well, paving the way for the invasion of Germany by the Soviets and the dropping of the iron curtain.
I guess risking a repeat of those failures (even if the chances are small) is worth destroying the military culture required to win wars. I mean, if it stops just one person from getting offended...
The USSR wouldn't have survived the war were it not for FDR industrializing Russia for free, particularly a massive amount of trucks, tooling, food, and steel.
And they realized it themselves. The political officers went away for much of the war, and practical war fighting took the place of ideological purity. Right up until the war ended and the party immediately reasserted their control.
For those not in the know, which I imagine is most people:
The CAF has been undergoing a project called "Operation Honour", begun by the previous Chief of Defence Staff, General Vance. Ostensibly enacted in response to allegations of sexual misconduct by Canadian soldiers, it has grown and incorporated every aspect of leftist ideology. Canadian troops are required to undergo Operation Honour briefings at least once a year. The content of these briefings is generally more reasonable than one might assume (think 2010 leftist propoganda rather than 2021), but does include being browbeaten into, for example, thought policing each other for making jokes at the expense of the rainbow mafia.
The primary stated goal of Operation Honour is to "change the culture" of our armed forces. There is good news and bad news on this front. In my experience (i.e. generally with the lower-to-middle enlisted ranks), the troops know that the propaganda is horseshit and continue to act privately among each other the way they always have. The bad news is that publicly the fear of being "Op Honour'd" has indeed changed the culture of the armed forces into one of mistrust and reluctance to engage with unfamiliar personnel. I also can't speak as to the private opinions of out officers, but being as they require a university degree I would expect the beliefs and values of Op Honour are held sincerely by a higher proportion of them (not to mention the value of Op Honour to the sort of careerist backstabber that the comission can attract).
As I implied earlier, I am a part of the CAF myself, and I unfortunately have a higher involvement in Op Honour due to my trade than most. I have to say, the damage to morale and espirit de corps that Op Honour has caused have made me doubt our capacity to do our jobs under any kind of real pressure. The worst part, however, is that I can't see any way of effectively resisting the leftism in the short or long term. There is no way our government will allow Op Honour to end, and there is no realistic hypothetical future government that will either.
Short version: They're purging the right wing from military.
Obvious implication: They're perparing for the coup/civil war that will end democracy and bring about a communist state.
Few people understand the impact of Stalin's military purges had during Operation Barbarossa. It ended up costing the Soviet Union millions of lives more than necessary, both civilian and military. The war through ~Stalingrad was a horrific meat grinder of incompetence on the part of the Soviet Union as they barely hung on at the cost of slowing down German tanks with stacks of bodies. After that, Hitler's stubbornness cost their army millions as well, paving the way for the invasion of Germany by the Soviets and the dropping of the iron curtain.
I guess risking a repeat of those failures (even if the chances are small) is worth destroying the military culture required to win wars. I mean, if it stops just one person from getting offended...
The USSR wouldn't have survived the war were it not for FDR industrializing Russia for free, particularly a massive amount of trucks, tooling, food, and steel.
And they realized it themselves. The political officers went away for much of the war, and practical war fighting took the place of ideological purity. Right up until the war ended and the party immediately reasserted their control.