{"id":28208,"date":"2014-10-11T10:55:19","date_gmt":"2014-10-11T14:55:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=28208"},"modified":"2014-10-11T10:55:19","modified_gmt":"2014-10-11T14:55:19","slug":"canadas-six-pack-strategy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2014\/10\/11\/canadas-six-pack-strategy\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada\u2019s &#8220;six-pack strategy&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A report by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/article\/20141010\/DEFREG02\/310100031\" target=\"_blank\">Jeff Schogol<\/a> in <em>Defense News<\/em> on Canada&#8217;s relatively trivial contribution to the fight against ISIS:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Canada\u2019s participation with airstrikes in Iraq will free up U.S. aircraft for use in Syria, said Canadian military expert Christian Leuprecht. Historically, Canada has deployed six aircraft to support joint operations, said Leuprecht, who has dubbed the approach \u201cCanada\u2019s six-pack strategy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen there\u2019s a party, you\u2019ve always got to bring something, so you bring a six-pack,\u201d said Leuprecht, associate dean in the Faculty of Arts at the Royal Military College of Canada. \u201cThis is what we deployed to Libya. This is what we\u2019re deploying over the Baltics to defend and survey the NATO airspace over the Baltic states.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. and Canadian militaries have worked well together for years through the North American Aerospace Defense Command, Leuprecht said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBecause Canada integrates on the interoperability piece \u2014 in command and control, logistics, intelligence, common targeting functions \u2014 so seamlessly with the U.S., Canada is always a highly desired partner because the transaction costs are so incredibly low compared participating of many other NATO allies,\u201d Leuprecht said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A report by Jeff Schogol in Defense News on Canada&#8217;s relatively trivial contribution to the fight against ISIS: Canada\u2019s participation with airstrikes in Iraq will free up U.S. aircraft for use in Syria, said Canadian military expert Christian Leuprecht. Historically, Canada has deployed six aircraft to support joint operations, said Leuprecht, who has dubbed the [&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":[6,370,5],"tags":[556,333,982,214],"class_list":["post-28208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cancon","category-middle-east","category-military","tag-f-18","tag-iraq","tag-isis","tag-rcaf"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-7kY","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28208","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=28208"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28209,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28208\/revisions\/28209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}