tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post5339134798064998285..comments2024-03-22T05:20:44.167-07:00Comments on The Disaffected Lib: It's Back to the Good Old Days of War FightingThe Mound of Soundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09023839743772372922noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-76323893350928659922018-01-24T22:23:14.970-08:002018-01-24T22:23:14.970-08:00The future of weapons is here and it's scary.
...The future of weapons is here and it's scary.<br />Forget your F35's and nuclear submarines.<br />This is precision strike at it's pinnacle.<br /><br /><br />http://autonomousweapons.org/slaughterbots/<br /><br />TBTrailblazerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03436709163754934547noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-25231594665673848602018-01-23T19:03:33.401-08:002018-01-23T19:03:33.401-08:00Aside from fish, oil and gas, there's not a lo...Aside from fish, oil and gas, there's not a lot of "exploitation" of seabed resources, <br /><br />https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_sea_mining<br /><br />and Arctic fishing, well,<br /><br />https://www.google.ca/amp/www.cbc.ca/amp/1.4428360<br /><br />Summer weather conditions will probably become more unpredictable with worse storms due to the heat/energy factors.<br /><br />With the window closing on viable ice roads, and drunken forests, melting permafrost and methane sinks, supplying the Arctic overland is going to become harder, not easier.<br /><br />Similar weather conditions will also make air and surface marine operations harder, and will barge operations even be viable or will we have to dredge and canalize the rivers?<br /><br />Are "fighting" Icebreakers even viable in an environment of AD/AC hypersonic missiles?<br /><br />Nuke subs will still be viable, in the deepwater channels, but they're not along the Canadian Arctic Coast.<br /><br />The "Great Game" will still be in the 'stan's, the Balkan's, the Middle East and North Africa, to prevent the One Belt, One Road link up, and along the Chinese Coast, as China continues to try to create a protected coastal shipping lane to the Persian Gulf, behind their island chains.<br /><br />https://www.google.ca/amp/amp.dw.com/en/first-freight-train-linking-uk-with-china-arrives-in-yiwu/a-38635908<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Jay Farquharsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03335226520940843630noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-71693951982468050162018-01-23T18:20:00.285-08:002018-01-23T18:20:00.285-08:00This isn't about shipping lanes but access to ...<br />This isn't about shipping lanes but access to and control of seabed resources which lie at the heart of Russia's claim to the north pole. China likewise aspires to grab a share of those seabed resources and seems willing to challenge traditional boundaries if necessary.<br /><br />The military dimensions of the Arctic encompass both the resource aspects and the Cold War issues.<br /><br />I think it's a bit premature to imagine the northeast passage as some death knell to the North American economy. Should that happen it could be one factor but only one of several.The Mound of Soundhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09023839743772372922noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-36569135102673118172018-01-23T18:01:30.853-08:002018-01-23T18:01:30.853-08:00I have read about the North East passage but never...I have read about the North East passage but never 'fully' understood it's implications.<br />Perhaps this will help..<br /><br /><br />https://www.google.ca/search?q=north+east+passage&tbm=isch&source=iu&ictx=1&fir=tXPBFBmDztCiNM%253A%252CfLX5kzg4a4vXlM%252C_&usg=__EmbIpc7vtuxbvVZb7Yyq_5n_pqE%3D&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiMv7yhv-_YAhVY8mMKHeDsAegQ9QEIZDAL#imgrc=tXPBFBmDztCiNM:<br /><br />With western manufacturing becoming important to only itself , this trade route has huge implications.<br /><br />This is the Panama canal or Suez canal of the twenty first century.<br /><br />TBAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-8772355712541087272018-01-23T15:18:47.320-08:002018-01-23T15:18:47.320-08:00The Canadian Arctic is shallow, strewn with island...The Canadian Arctic is shallow, strewn with islands and reefs, and subjected to prevailing winds and storms, and rapidly shifting ice packs.<br /><br />The Russian Arctic is deep, has few reefs or islands, rarely has icepacks closing off navigation, and the landmass shields the sea from much of the prevailing winds and storms.<br /><br />The NorthEast Passage also lies astride the currently developing trade routes, while the treacherous NorthWest Passage is a 1500 nm detour.<br /><br />The One Belt, One Road project will leave much of North America an economic backwater like Austro Hungary in the 1900's.Jay Farquharsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03335226520940843630noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-83422330705899244762018-01-23T13:53:56.513-08:002018-01-23T13:53:56.513-08:00Back in the fifties I occasionally read comments i...Back in the fifties I occasionally read comments in American publications in which politicians and/or business types referred to "our" (meaning American) resources in what was then called the Dominion of Canada. There was never any sense or indication that Canada had any right to these resources be they uranium, aluminum, oil, copper, lumber, water or whatever. It struck me at the time that the US would righteously invade Canada any time it decided that its access to its resources were being impeded. <br /><br />In any dispute in the Arctic we can be sure that the Americans would defend what they believe to be their resources. In such a case we can expect to see the Canadian Arctic become effectively an American one with permanent military bases. Manifest Destiny is not dead. Tobynoreply@blogger.com