{"id":11251,"date":"2011-09-21T07:34:27","date_gmt":"2011-09-21T11:34:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=11251"},"modified":"2011-09-21T07:40:14","modified_gmt":"2011-09-21T11:40:14","slug":"report-shows-military-bureaucracy-defied-government-orders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2011\/09\/21\/report-shows-military-bureaucracy-defied-government-orders\/","title":{"rendered":"Report shows military bureaucracy defied government orders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s not really a surprise that the bureaucrats don&#8217;t want to increase the size of the militia, but it is surprising that they&#8217;ve been willing to <a href=\"http:\/\/fullcomment.nationalpost.com\/2011\/09\/21\/christie-blatchford-military-has-defied-orders-to-increase-army-militia-report-says\/\" target=\"_blank\">ignore direct government orders<\/a> on the subject:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Canada\u2019s bloated military bureaucracy has consistently defied explicit orders from government ministers and failed to increase the size of the army militia as directed.<\/p>\n<p>The accusation is made in a scorching but carefully documented report done by pre-eminent military scholar Jack English for the Canadian Defence and Foreign Affairs Institute and obtained in advance of its release Wednesday by only a few media outlets, including Postmedia.<\/p>\n<p>It is a \u201cwretched saga\u201d that Mr. English describes as marked by \u201csandbagging, obstruction, futile wheel-spinning, and endlessly wasted staff effort.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Using statements made by a series of defence ministers and recommendations either from special commissions or in government \u201cWhite Papers\u201d &mdash; all of them pledging or urging that the part-time militia or reserves, whose members most proudly call themselves citizen-soldiers, would grow &mdash; Mr. English shows how bureaucrats and leaders within the regular army, who saw any move to increase the militia as a threat, stubbornly stymied the wishes of their political masters.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In the numbers game, NDHQ has drawn level with the entire militia force, and like all bureaucracies, wants to continue to grow. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s not really a surprise that the bureaucrats don&#8217;t want to increase the size of the militia, but it is surprising that they&#8217;ve been willing to ignore direct government orders on the subject: Canada\u2019s bloated military bureaucracy has consistently defied explicit orders from government ministers and failed to increase the size of the army militia [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,84,5],"tags":[31],"class_list":["post-11251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cancon","category-government","category-military","tag-army"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-2Vt","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11251"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11253,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11251\/revisions\/11253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}