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Originally Posted by Delgar
The US, the most expensive military in the world, hovers around 3 to 3.5 percent GDP on the figures I could find. I don't think Canada should be engaging in the role as world police like the US attempts to... and they always (100% of the time) screw it up and create other problems. Look at ISIS, which was only made possible because of what happened in Iraq.
If its less than 1% that we spend now, I'd support bumping it to 1% and I think the focus should be to our north. We should be looking after our own borders and asserting our sovereignty in the north, and beyond that only take on international peacekeeping where it aligns with our interests. We have no business being in Syria or elsewhere actively fighting.
Just my opinion, of course.
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If you're going to focus on the North then you'd better be spending more then 2% at least over the next 10 years as we need the replacement ships for the navy including ice friendly ships. upgrades to our airforce for quick reqponse, and improvements to our sensor nets and intelligence gathering.
I want to add that the concept of peacekeeping is over and useless. Putting lightly armed blue beret'd troops into trouble spots is stupid,
Peacekeeping has to be peace enforcement especially in this day and age of rebel groups and insurgents.