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Kirkhill replied to the thread British Military Current Events.Chinese Gordon and the telegraph caused the 1884-85 Nile Expedition to relieve him at Khartoum. Now everybody is Chinese Gordon... -
If you can think in the long term and big picture then yes they are. If you live for the moment and let every provocation get under your...
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First time in a long time that I’ve lowered the flag for any reason. As a parent who has lost a child, I can tell you we will always...
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Kirkhill replied to the thread The Arctic.Saudi gave up slavery under duress in 1962. Mauritania didn't outlaw slavery until 1981 but didn't criminalize it until 2007. The...
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Kirkhill replied to the thread The Arctic.Further to that and my last 1905 Denmark and Norway split the sheets. The US started pressurind Denmark to give up its islands in the...
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Then there's the elephant in the hydrographic survey room ;) My latest article “Canadian Arctic Hydrography: Proceed with Alacrity” has...
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Kirkhill replied to the thread The Arctic.Correct. But that was primarily because WW1 intervened and disrupted pre-WW1 plans based on the National Policy and membership in the...
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HBC might have operated York Factory (near the mouth of the Hayes River) until 1957 but steel was never laid to Port Nelson (near the...
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Kirkhill replied to the thread British Military Current Events.Back in the good old days they, and we, would have been afforded the protection of a common passport and a gunboat of a common navy...
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Kirkhill replied to the thread Canada moves to 2% GDP end of FY25/26 - PMMC.That Newgrange building that was built about 3100 BC. Its white walls looked pretty impressive. It was faced from tbe quartz waste fro...
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Kirkhill reacted to FJAG's post in the thread Canada moves to 2% GDP end of FY25/26 - PMMC with
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Whenever I see the Brit cadets I see well equipped, well supported young adults on the way to learning military skills. Whenever I see... -
Kirkhill reacted to Furniture's post in the thread Indirect Fires Modernization Project - C3/M777 Replacement with
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I think Canada needs a Black Watch to keep people in line... A reminder of who we were, and who we are. A nation of angry people... -
But I suspect that in short order most of AH squadrons will be uncrewed working with a leader crewed system.
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Kirkhill replied to the thread Hybrid Warfare and Sabotage.Related https://oilprice.com/Energy/Crude-Oil/Indias-Oil-Pivot-The-US-Gambit-That-Could-Break-Russias-War-Economy.html
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Kirkhill replied to the thread The Shadow Fleet.Sanctioned Russian tankers redirecting to Singapore from India...
