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  1. Kirkhill

    The Origin of the State as Protection Racket

    It used to be received wisdom that hierarchies saved starving pastoralists by inventing irrigation agriculture, complex societies and temples - Mesopotamia and Egypt circa 3500 BC But then Gobekli Tepe was discovered, a temple complex built by hunter-gatherers and pastoralists circa 9000 BC...
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    Janet Daley nails it

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/11/22/fatal-clash-between-individual-and-welfare/ Could somebody extract this from the paywall. I have run out of gifts.
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    Canada and the rule of law

    Lawfare. Lawyers, no laws. There are no immutables in Canada. https://nationalpost.com/opinion/richard-ciano-mr-carney-investors-dont-see-rule-of-law-in-canada-they-see-chaos
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    Shutdown Contracts

    https://breakingdefense.com/2025/11/pentagon-announces-nearly-9-billion-in-contracts-over-six-week-shutdown/ Germany spending 876 MUSD for 60 Chnooks (seems like a good price to me, can we get another squadron or two?) Aerovironment seems to have done well as well. Moreso with their small...
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    Conventional Forces in Irregular Warfare in the Gray Zone

    Expanding Irregular Warfare beyond Special Operations. https://breakingdefense.com/2025/11/pentagon-formalizes-conventional-forces-role-in-irregular-warfare-but-will-it-stick/
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    Canadian Culture

    The article is about beef but the story is about Canadian and American culture. https://torontosun.com/opinion/columnists/donald-trump-beef-packers-ottawa-silence "The contrast ultimately comes down to temperament. The United States acts; Canada deliberates. Washington’s reflex is enforcement...
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    10,000 year old fish weir under the arctic ice

    https://www.fossewaytreeservices.co.uk/10-11-2025/166924-10k-year-old-artifact-discovered-still-working/ 10,000 year old engineered fish weir founf intact and functional under high arctic ice. Still catching arctic char. Made from pebbles, antlers, bones and sinew. 27 m long. Add in the...
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    EW, Drones and Jamming

    I am double-posting this article intentionally. It had some relevance to the training of pilots so I posted it in "Future Helicopters". However the discussion about flying drones in a contested environment is fascinating. Particularly some comments about US vehicles like Skydio. 6 Questions...
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    LGen Wright - Drones in the Canadian Army

    A new article in the Walrus from Wesley Wark. A long interview with CCA LGen Wright on getting drones into the Army in a hurry and potential impacts on structure. Short form: Drones for everyone everywhere and encourage bottom up experimentation...
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    Canada's New Alliances?

    https://www.canada.ca/en/global-affairs/news/2025/10/joint-statement-by-foreign-ministers-of-canada-norway-and-the-united-kingdom-on-situation-in-tanzania.html Canada, UK and Norway commenting jointly on Tanzania...
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    Vger is back!

    https://evidencenetwork.ca/although-it-was-thought-to-be-lost-24-billion-miles-from-earth-this-probe-sent-in-1977-has-against-all-odds-resurfaced-on-nasas-radar/...
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    Modern War in the IndoPacific

    “The mega trend that you could think about wrapping up all those other three meta [trends] and underpinning it, connecting it, enabling it, is ubiquitous competition for networks,” Lt. Gen. Joshua Rudd, deputy commander of INDOPACOM, said Thursday at AFCEA’s TechNet Indo-Pacific in Hawaii. “If...
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    Canada's Pacific Pivot?

    Canada Phillipines https://globalnation.inquirer.net/297174/canada-to-become-4th-country-with-visiting-forces-pact-with-ph Canada South Korea https://www.international.gc.ca/news-nouvelles/2025/2025-10-29-republic-korea-republique-coree.aspx?lang=eng...
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    Ukraine Buying Gripens

    Ukraine will be flying more of them than the Swedes. https://united24media.com/latest-news/sweden-signs-deal-to-supply-ukraine-with-100-150-gripen-e-fighter-jets-12717 Any bets on them keeping the GE engine?
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    Occupational 'Elf 'n' Saaaafty ca 1970s

    https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1A4uszs3Ea/
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    For the Engineers in the crowd

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    Canadian History and the End of Canada

    https://nationalpost.com/opinion/the-erosion-of-liberal-education-is-a-civic-emergency-in-the-making Social Studies used to be two separate departments: Geography and History with a leavening of political studies in the later grades. These were buttressed by the study of literature and...
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    A 5000 km torpedo?

    https://united24media.com/latest-news/ukraine-could-soon-deploy-sea-launched-drones-with-5000-km-range-and-1-ton-warheads-12412 This thing is uncrewed. It floats. It is powered by jet engines. It is propelled by air. It has an undercarriage like the Bras d'Or. It moves on the surface like a...
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    The value of an education

    https://fortune.com/2025/10/02/jim-farley-says-gen-z-son-worked-as-mechanic-college-degree/ 12000 USD degree ca 1980 now costs 94000 USD. Inflating faster than everything. 5 tradesmen retire. 2 new candidates enter the field.
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    Anti-Tank Platoon or Anti-Tank Battery? - 24 Vertical Launch JAGMs on a WAPC

    JAGM has a 16 km range, is fire and forget with a MMW seeker and a warhead effective against tanks, aircraft, ships and structures...... Who wants it? ;)
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