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Land defenders the world over are branded as terrorists, intentionally targeted and often killed. As capitalists and corporate projects ramp up lands and natural resources, environmental defenders act as the last barrier against the destruction of their own homes. The numbers are staggering. One environmental defender was killed every other day between 2012 and 2022, making it more than 2.000 reported murders, mainly in the Global South. Alessandra Bergamin reports on the global threat to environmentalists and the deep ties to governments and the #US. "The hidden nature of the killings and the entanglement of military, paramilitary and local police makes it hard enough to trace state complicity, let alone track them back to more powerful geopolitical actors — such as the neocolonial U.S. military apparatus that has long cleared the way for resource extraction, and the global corporate and financial interests that ultimately profit." Read the full piece at https://lnkd.in/dcSs5Si6

The Pentagon Needs the American Private Sector to Step Up and Contribute its Resources and Focused Efforts to Support the Country in These Increasingly Perilous Times Globally. The publication Foreign Policy outlines the problem well, asking how we can rebuild the US Arsenal of Democracy to protect our nation and allied democracies throughout the world. Properly structured Public Private Partnerships could be part of the solution to activate American industry. Excerpts include: “…..Defense Department officials are facing a problem from hell. How can the Pentagon mobilize the U.S. defense industry to respond to not just one conflict or two, but potentially three wars?” “There was a time when the United States could turn plowshares into swords; in the Second World War, the United States built more of pretty much everything than any other combatant, from tanks to planes to ships to landing craft. Then-President Franklin D. Roosevelt called it the “arsenal of democracy” because it was. In five years, U.S. factories built 141 aircraft carriers, 88,410 self-propelled guns and tanks, and 257,000 artillery guns.” “…..China has done everything short of invading Taiwan, though it has vowed to do so at some point soon. In a naval fight, shipyards count as much or more than hulls in the water, and there the United States is beached. Even when it comes to what the United States is really good at—building and operating high-end nuclear submarines—they are artisanal affairs. The rest of the U.S. Navy is shrinking while China’s is growing….. If the United States were in a war with China over the Taiwan Strait, it could run out of long-range precision munitions within a week, according to one study.” https://lnkd.in/eQGVEbJa

🇬🇧 Britain’s geopolitical standing in the 2020s This is the first in a weekly series of Open Briefings to the Strategic Defence Review from the Council on Geostrategy 🌐 In this piece, James Rogers lays out his thoughts and recommendations. You can read the article here: https://lnkd.in/eFx55w8t #StrategicDefenceReview #SDR #OpenBriefings #BritainsWorld #Geopolitics #InternationalRelations

We have crafted a Maginot Line of military-centric national security that is easily flanked with little effort and less penalty. It is useful to accept that Russia and China, among others, would be dumb not to wage political warfare against our interests and those of our democratic allies. Political warfare is inexpensive, especially relative to traditional warfare. Munitions, which include but go well beyond mere “information,” are cheap. The damage to physical infrastructure from political warfare is virtually or completely nil compared to a traditional invasion. If we want to be glib, we can throw in that political warfare is environmentally friendly. Political warfare is tolerant of mistakes and missteps. It allows for multiple and simultaneous, even potentially contradictory, lines of effort along multiple fronts, audiences, and territories. Further, political warfare can result in a deeper and longer-lasting positive result without post-invasion reconstruction, occupation troops, or possibly a directly appointed viceroy, depending on the objective. 

For those interested in getting a sense of how NOAA provides critical support in the management of a challenging and complex disaster situation, click through the article. There is a short and interesting article and video describing how both sonar and lidar are used to measure water depth, the air gap between the water and the remaining bridge and more.

The fuse is lit on a powder keg in the Middle East, and Colonel  @DougAMacgregor --- #intelligence #iran #nuclear #Israel #yemen #Iraq #Syria #DIA #CIA #Mossad #global_jihad #AQAP #AQ #Terrorism #Inspire #nuclearwar #Turkey #Pakistan #hamas #houthis #hezbollah #WAR #WWIII --- to decode the imminent dangers for global #security. His expertise unveils Iran's alarming progression towards weapons-grade uranium enrichment and the whispers of nuclear aid from Pakistan to Turkey—developments that could trigger a catastrophic regional war.  Macgregor's analysis doesn't just skim the surface; it plunges into the strategic depths of regional power dynamics, exposing the potential fallout on tens of thousands of American servicemen and the stark absence of discourse from the White House. Watch the Full Interview Here: https://lnkd.in/eCQvkj7k 

Episode 153 is out! Congressional Defense Update; Conflict in the Middle East; and a China Threat Update: The Rendezvous https://lnkd.in/eQwGPjjP

With two real-world maritime crises now unfolding, it is becoming clear that the Marine Corps has adapted appropriately to modern challenges and that it is still the capable crisis response force that the nation has come to rely on. Not everyone agrees.

Reading tip: Conflict: The Evolution of Warfare from 1945 to Ukraine David Petraeus, Andrew Roberts Two leading authorities—an acclaimed historian and the outstanding battlefield commander and strategist of our time—collaborate on a landmark examination of war since 1945. Conflict is both a sweeping history of the evolution of warfare up to Putin’s invasion of the Ukraine, and a penetrating analysis of what we must learn from the past—and anticipate in the future—in order to navigate an increasingly perilous world. https://lnkd.in/dMc2cNv2

We're in a climate crisis and Canada is exacerbating it by militarizing the Arctic for fossil fuel-powered tactical vehicles and operations for NORAD and NATO. The federal government ignores the Inuit people who want their homeland to be a zone of peace not a theatre of war. My latest article in the Canadian Dimension. https://lnkd.in/gXd9rsG2