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Originally Posted by thurmas
I am glad you pointed out Australia. They are very similar to us yet they spend 1.8% of their gdp on their military while us it's 1.3% Also we are a little more than half the size of France and Britain their militaries are around 250-275,000 regular force members if we cut that in half for our population it should be around 125-135000 members yet we only have 67,000 you could fit our whole armed forces inside montreal's olympic stadium that's pretty sad. The reason for a strong military in the future is for further protection of canadian soverignty in the north while the north west passage melts mean potential BILLIONS for canada in oil revenue.Also a stronger military would ease the strain on our mighty troops in Afghanistan and allow us to have a stronger voice in foreign affairs in places like libya and africa ie:Congo and Darfur.
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You need to do some homework.
Let's keep it on the subject of this thread.
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