Comments by "Abraham Dozer" (@abrahamdozer6273) on "Canadian commander who helped train Ukrainian soldiers has 'immense confidence' in them" video.

That culture of "training up" in the Canadian army that empowers the infantryman goes back more than a hundred years. In the preparation for the storming of Vimy Ridge in early 1917, Privates were "trained up" to replace Corporals, Corporals to replace Sargeants, Sargeants to replace Lieutenants as the battle progressed and things rapidly changed. It sounds like an obvious thing to do in the 21st century but back then, it was revolutionary (and widely doubted) within the Imperial British forces .. and apparently it still is in the Soviet remnant army. It's totally Canadian.
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@dohope4554 Again, back to Vimy. Ordinary Privates were all issued maps to orient themselves (It worked, too) . This was not done! The British Army didn't think that the lower classes could possibly understand or read maps and it wasn't done anywhere else in the Imperial Army. Here we are a century later and Russian soldiers don't know where they are.
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@adenadrianamontreal2633 I'm not sure about that but it is a very smart but chronically unsupported military. Canada has high quality soldiers, sailors, airmen in spite of her political leadership. It's worse now than it has been since the Chretien years.
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@kijijiuser1784 I guess that you're yet another Russian troll. It's not working, anymore. Nobody believes you outside of Russia.
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@dougcoombes8497 A brilliant young science educated officer named Andrew McNaughton pioneered counterbattery work using flash detection and acoustic ranging gathering data over weeks before the battle to locate the German guns opposite them. His counterbatterry artillery took out 85% of the German guns in front of the soldiers at the very moment that the assaults bagan. Science in battle was another Canadian innovation at Vimy. (The battle was won the very day that the Americans finally declared war)
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@matso3856 Canada pioneered all these thing when our bigger neighbour was an unarmed, uncommitted neutral. A lot of that military knowledge flowed in the other direction in the 20th century Canada spent 10-1/3 years of the 20th century at war with Germany and the Americans spent 5-1/2 years at it. Military knowledge and experience often travelled from North to South.
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@mdf3006 I was in the Navy and the Canadian Navy came up with some inventions that have changed Naval warfare. A major one is that we essentially invented flying large, powerful helicopters off of small ships. The aft parts of just about every ship larger than a patrol boat in the World now has a flight deck and hanger. The RCN invented that whole thing back in the 1950s and it is everywhere, today. How about the "Trackball"? The RCN held the original patent for it and decades later it morphed into the ball computer mouse.
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@mdf3006 We've spend that last six decades making bricks without straw. Canadian service personnel are exceptionally resourceful.
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@letranger6750 We stopped sending Peacekeepers towards the end of the Chretien years. There wasn't any peace to keep. Peacekeeping only works if both parties wan peace and if that is the case, there is no need for Peacekeepers. If not, it is a futile pursuit (see: Mali)
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@jorannielsen4213 Th Germans were totally routed by it ... and not just second rate Silesians, etc. It was the Prussian Guard that was rolled up like a carpet at Vimy and if the Germans were somehow good at it, they forgot how to do it every time they engaged the Canadian Corps right up to 11/11/1918. Your General Staff was afraid of the Canadian Corps. They never lost a battle that was commanded by Canadians and the "Hundred Days" that pushed the German Army back to the German border in 1918 was led by Canadians and Australian divisions. If it was a "great German invention" they were half-assed and ineffective at it."Uber Alles" but totally defeated in battle.
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@jorannielsen4213 Then you would know that the German army was defeated in almost all battles with Canadian forces in two World Wars (save Dieppe and Verrières Ridge). If The Germans indeed "invented" large scale anti battery work and were any good at it, they wouldn't have been beaten in every battle including and after Vimy by Canadians. I guess that their "good idea" was good theory that they weren't able to successfully implement.
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@herringchoker01 They were revolutionary in 1917.
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@spitfirenutspitfirenut4835 ... goes with that helicopter thingy back aft.
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