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    Kirkhill reacted to Blackadder1916's post in the thread British Military Current Events with Like Like.
    What do other "middle power" countries do differently than Canada when their citizens are "illegally incarcerated" that make us the...
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    Kirkhill replied to the thread CJADC2.
    https://www.businessinsider.com/army-general-new-tech-no-more-hour-long-decision-meetings-2026-2 Once the Yanks sort this stuff out...
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    Kirkhill replied to the thread British Military Current Events.
    We are a middle power.
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    Kirkhill reacted to Colin Parkinson's post in the thread The Arctic with Like Like.
    For small waterways For deeper and larger
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    Kirkhill replied to the thread The Arctic.
    Got me to thinking Medium to large freighters of the era drew up to 9 meters with DWT of 5 to 10,000. Trampers and Panama freighters...
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    Kirkhill replied to the thread The Arctic.
    Possibly. But there was local economic and political pressure in support of the enterprise.
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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...
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    Kirkhill reacted to FJAG's post in the thread British Military Current Events with Like Like.
    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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    Kirkhill reacted to Cloud Cover's post in the thread Tumbler Ridge with Insightful Insightful.
    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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    Kirkhill reacted to daftandbarmy's post in the thread The Arctic with Like Like.
    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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    Kirkhill reacted to lenaitch's post in the thread The Arctic with Like Like.
    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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