Wednesday, December 4, 2013

Yarlung Tsangpo - China's Proposed Mega-Dam

Three Gorges on Yangtze 
Stateless Nations 

As China seeks to meet its targets of becoming carbon neutral by 2060, it is turning its sights to some of the wildest reaches of the Tibetan Plateau where it plans to build a hydropower plant so ambitious that it could produce three times as much power as Three Gorges.

Experts believe it could be the riskiest mega structure ever built. Not only is the location prone to massive landslides and some of the most powerful earthquakes ever recorded, it’s also precariously close to the disputed border between India and China. Meaning any major project could further escalate discontent in a tense territorial dispute between the world’s two most populous countries.

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Sunday, December 1, 2013

○ Geopolitics: Bodies of Water

A body of waterwaterbody, or water body is any significant accumulation of water, generally on a planet's surface. The term most often refers to oceans, seas, and lakes, but it includes smaller pools of water such as ponds, wetlandsreservoirsharborsrivers, streams, canals, and other geographical features where water moves from one place to another are also considered bodies of water. Navigable bodies of water are known as waterwaysTidal effects occur in bodies of water affected by gravity.

Water politics, sometimes called hydropolitics, is politics affected by the availability of water and water resources, a necessity for all life forms and human development. Why ‘hydro-politics’ will shape the 21st Century. The availability of drinking water per capita is inadequate and shrinking worldwide. The causes, related to both quantity and quality, are many and varied; they include local scarcity, limited availability and population pressures, but also human activities of mass consumption, misuse, environmental degradation and water pollution, as well as climate change.


Saturday, November 30, 2013

●● Military Training, Tactics, Kit

● Military/Services - Hand Weapons/Packs ..
● Military/Services - Kit/Uniforms/Clothing ..
3D Fokker DVII Biplane, WW1 ..
Air tactics: Boelcke, Mannock, Malan ..

Civilian & Military 
Mechanical Typewriter ..

Civvies


Commando
Commando training ..
Fairbairn & Sykes .. 
Red Army Special Ops Training (1923) ..

Conscription, Mobilization, National Service
39-4-27 Conscription Introduced in Britain - 27 April 1939 ..

Construction  

Defense


Future 

Geostrategic Projection
European Geostrategic Projection ..

Home Front
Auxiliaries ..
Mapping

MENA 

Military Costs
Budgets (Military) ..

Military Analysis, R&D, Strategy 


Recruiting, Training, Retaining, Equipping - 21st ..Tank Crew Training ..

Military Transport 

Military Weaponry

Militias

Special Operations, Spy
Camp X - STS 103 ..

Theft

Transport

Urban Combat 

Zapad ..

Vehicles
EMV - Electric Military Vehicles ..

Vessels 
ESB - Expeditionary Sea Base ⇼

Warfare


Weaponry

● Military/Services - Hand Weapons/Packs

WW1 
British WW1 Kit .. Webley Revolver & British Officer's Kit ..

WW2
Hand Weapons - WW2 ..

Military Costs
Budgets (Military) ..

● Military/Services - Kit/Uniforms/Clothing

Clothing, Uniforms
ANZAC uniforms ..

sī vīs pācem, parā bellum

igitur quī dēsīderat pācem praeparet bellum    therefore, he who desires peace, let him prepare for war sī vīs pācem, parā bellum if you wan...