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One possible future outcome from the Ottawa Incident.

Canada got hit today.  Some will say that it wasn't a particularly effective attack but it has rattled law makers in Canada and the US.

Which leads me to the next issue.

After the fact, terrorist leaders will realize that they missed a prime opportunity to take out the Canadian legislative branch.

I'm betting that terrorist are going to go after political leadership in the future.  Politicians, military leaders, judges etc...Once you get past a couple of security/law enforcement personnel at the checkpoint/metal detector its clear sailing.  Consider it a Jihadist Matrix scene...only this will be real...and the victims might be Congressmen, Dept Heads, Generals/Admirals and Judges...

Do you like dogs?

Do you like dogs?  If you do then you should head here to read this article and check out the pics.

Funny.

People died today in Canada and it didn't move me in a particular way.  A story about dogs made me pause.  Either I'm fucked up or we live in fucked up times...I'd like to think the times are fucked up...and so are people.

More photos from the Ottawa Incident.

Gloves are off. The US Army steps firmly onto Marine Corps turf.

via DoD Buzz

As it rethinks its global posture for a possible shift to the Asia-Pacific region, the U.S. Army wants to buy a new fleet of small boats and upgrade existing watercraft, an official said.
The land force and largest branch of the U.S. military has more than 100 vessels in its inventory — including the Cold War-era Landing Craft Mechanized-8 “Mike” boat, as well as the larger Logistics Support Vessel, LSV, and Landing Craft Utility, or LCU-2000 — to support combat and humanitarian missions.
The Army is gearing up to solicit proposals to replace the so-called Mike boats as part of a new acquisition program to buy three dozen craft called the Maneuver Support Vessel (Light), or MSV(L), according to Scott Davis, who heads the service’s Combat Support and Combat Service Support office in Warren, Michigan.

There is no such thing as a crowded battlefield, at least when you're talking about friends or allies.

THERE IS SUCH a thing as services stepping onto each others designated roles and functions.

100 New Mike boats?

During a time when the Army is having trouble getting funding for its Ground Combat Vehicles?

This might be bluff and bluster but its clearly a shot across the USMC's bow.  The gloves are off and they've stepped firmly into Marine Corps turf.  Is this in response to the SPMAGTF-CR's that Amos stood up?

Is it part of the chess game with the budget?

Unknown.  What I do know is that this will raise eyebrows in Marine Corps circles.

...I will say that but it's purely and simply fucked up...via FoxTrot Alpha.

"This is very serious, I would go so far as... well, I won't use Scanian [southern dialect of Swedish]. But I will say that but it's purely and simply fucked up that something or someone has entered this way into Swedish territory."Sverker Göransson, General of the Swedish Army, Supreme Commander of the Swedish Armed Forces

Read the entire story here. 

Armed response pic to the terrorist attack in Canada...

Canadian Forces soldier shot at National War Memorial in Ottawa, Wednesday, Oct. 22, 2014.
An RCMP intervention team run next to a Parliament building in Ottawa Wednesday Oct.22, 2014. A Canadian soldier standing guard at the National War Memorial in Ottawa has been shot by an unknown gunman and there are reports of gunfire inside the halls of Parliament.