The problem is, and will be for the foreseeable future, you can spend all you want on fancy new kit but if you can get the people to run it then what? That's the problem, retention. They can barley keep the people they have let alone scale up. So, while we pour billions on new jets/icebreakers/drones we cut on maintenance on the kit we are deploying thus making their end of life that much quicker.
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According to the federal main estimates, the current defence budget sits at $26.5 billion and won't reach the $40 billion mark for several years. The goal of doubling expenditures is still an aspirational one.
It's more delusional at this point.
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