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Okedoke, I'll cite it for you
American military officials repeatedly warned about the growing mass of troops. But Russian military officials said they had no control over the fighters assembling near the river — even though American surveillance equipment monitoring radio transmissions had revealed the ground force was speaking in Russian.
OK, so the guy on the radio who the Russians were speaking to was speaking Russian. How bizarre.
That, however, does nothing to indicate how many of the people who were attacking were Russian, nor does it do anything to prove that the Russians were not exactly what they claimed to be "mercenaries" (or "Civilian military contractors" if you prefer).
:shrug: DOD reporting is pretty believable on this one. If you want to claim It's All A Conspiraceh to obviate your attempt to downplay U.S. force projection capability... well,... okay, but we have a forum for that.
I don't remember ever questioning the DOD estimate of the size of the attacking force, or even the fact that SOME members of the attacking force were Russians.
I do question the "conclusion" that the force (which was several times larger than the reported size of the Russian mercenaries known to be with it) was composed almost exclusively of Russians and I also question the "conclusion" that the US forces managed to kill a number of Russians that was someplace in excess of 200% of the Russians known to be with the attacking force.
Unless you are one of an extremely small number of Canadians (and, your claims thus far do not suggest this), I suspect you likely shouldn't be trying to bump chests on this.[/quote[
I make no claims about my military service other than to state that it exists.
But, if you need to cling to this fig leaf in order to make the Russians seem even scarier - alright; then why isn't Canada doing more to help bulk up to meet that threat?
Why would I want to make anyone "seem even scarier"?
The basic idea behind "threat analysis" is to have an ACCURATE assessment of what the threat ACTUALLY is.
Hyper-inflating a threat doesn't actually make the actual threat any greater (and the opposite is also true).
Theoretically the Canadian armed forces should be at least 500,000 active service members in order to provide the minimum generally acknowledged defence force against any country which actually has the logistical capacity to invade and attempt to conquer Canada. However the likelihood of that threat ever becoming reality is so low that it can be ignored.
Besides, the US government would get really worried if Canada has a 500,000 man military that was equipped with modern weapons and fully supplied. In fact, Canada should probably have a fairly large number of fully functional ICBMs in order to be able to defend itself against the Red Hordes. (That, however, would make the US government REALLY upset since the US government has this thing about "Socialist" governments having nuclear weapons that have the capacity to reach the United States of America.)