●● Resource Logistics

Military Comparisons | ● Military Comparisons ..

Agricultural Productivity 

Industrialized Agriculture - 20th to 21st ↠

Agricultural Futures - 21st C ..

Agricultural Geopolitics ..

AI, IT

21st C - AI Weaponry ..

DARPA ..

Global Perspective on AI ..

Innovation Race & Crisis - China vs USA ..

Supply Logistics - Military ..

Tech Ċold Ŵar 2 ..

TTC - EU-US Trade and Technology Council ..

WWW - World Wide Web - 1990-11-12 ↠

Air Force

21st C - Aircraft R&R - AMARG ↠ 

Airports - modern mega-airports ..

Freedom of Navigation .. 

Global Transportation System - US Military ..

In-Flight Refueling ..

Manned Bombers - Future? .. 

MIC - Military Industrial Complex ..

Military Ambitions - China 2021 ..

Military Logistics .. 

USATC - US Air Transport Command ..

Alliances 21st C- Power Projection, Trade

Anglosphere - CANZUK ..

B3W - Build Back Better World (vs BRI) ..

BrexTWIT Impacts ..

CAI, RCEP - Asia, Europe, USA ..

DIME & National Power ..

Djibouti Bases - China's 1st Abroad .. 

ECE - Economic Corridors - Europe ..

Energy Crisis Triggers ..

Eurasia & Power Competition at Sea ..

Freedom of Navigation ..

MIC - Military Industrial Complex ..
Military Ambitions - China 2021 ..

Naval Arms Exports ..

North Sea - Wind Farms ..

NZ, Aus, USA vs China in Pacific ..

QUAD - PATO ..
Superpower Potential ..
2021 Power Projection - US Military ..

Power of Geography ..
Prisoners of Geography ↬

RCEP - Asia-Pacific trading bloc ..

Stumbling Economy, Coal Shortage - CCP ..

Trade Routes - Silk Road to Globalization ..

TTC - EU-US Trade and Technology Council ..

Ukraine's Resources ..

US Overseas Territories ..

Weaponized Interdependence - Global Economic Coercion ..

> Arctic >>   >> Arctic >>>

Armed Services
Building a Navy - Planning, Procurement, Production, Logistics ..

Cold War 2 ..

Freedom of Navigation .. 

Global Transportation System - US Military ..

Mahan & Naval Strategy ..

MIC - Military Industrial Complex ..

MILDEC - Military deception ..

Military Ambitions - China 2021 ..

Shipbuilding Industry ..

Supply Logistics - Military ..

Army

Bailey Bridge ..

British Army - 21st C ..

Cold War 2 ..

Global Transportation System - US Military ..

MIC - Military Industrial Complex ..
Military Ambitions - China 2021 ..

Mules, WW2 ..

Supply Logistics - Military ..

ASW
Naval Blockade of British Isles ..

Shipbuilding Industry ..
Wargaming & Battle of the Atlantic ..

Biosynthetics

Synthetic Dragline Spider Silk ↬ 

Cement, Concrete 21st

ash for cement ➼ 

Cement & Pozzolans ➼

Cement ↠

Cement - Supply Chain ↠

Papermill Waste as Cement Component ↬

Sand - Future Conflict ..

● Chokepoints - Trade, Resource Logistics ..

Availability of Metals in Energy Transition ↬

Chokepoints - Bab-el-Mandeb Strait, Djibouti Bases ..

Chokepoints - Geopolitical - CCP's Narrow Passes ..

Chokepoints - La Pérouse (Sōya) Strait ..

Chokepoints - Panama Canal ..

Chokepoints - Royal Navy, Britain ..

Chokepoints - South China Sea .. 
Chokepoints - Strait of Hormuz ..

Chokepoints - Strait of Malacca ..
Chokepoints - Suez Canal ..

Chokepoints - Turkish Straits ..

First Island Chain - Asia ..

Food - Importing vs Exporting Nations ..

Freedom of Navigation .. 

Global Transportation System - US Military ..

Globalization ⇔ Decoupling ..

Heavy Lift Ships ↠

India, Indian Ocean ..

Kuwaiti Oil Fires  ↠ 

Mahan & Naval Strategy ..

Marine Infrastructure ..

Material Productivity ..

North Sea - Fisheries, Oil, Protection, Wind Farms ..

Oil Reserves - 21st ..

Power of Geography ..

Railroad Network Size - 21st ↠

SpEc - Space Economics ..

Stumbling Economy, Coal Shortage - CCP ..

Trade Routes - Silk Road to Globalization ..

Trans African Highway ..

Ukraine's Resources ..

Vistula Canal - Poland's Kaliningrad Bypass ↠

Weaponized Interdependence - Global Economic Coercion ..

Xina wants Simandou ↠

China, 21st

B3W - Build Back Better World (vs BRI) ..

CCP Crackdown on Business ..

Chinese Vessels Overfishing in Galapagos ↬

Cold War 2 ..

Energy Crisis - CoV+ ..

Globalization ⇔ Decoupling ..

PLAN's Carrier 003 ..

Primacy - China’s Quest vs USA, QUAD ..

South-to-North Water Transfer Project (China) ..

Stumbling Economy, Coal Shortage - CCP ..

Trade Routes - Silk Road to Globalization ..

Trans African Highway ..

Warlord Geocorruption ..

Weaponized Interdependence - Global Economic Coercion ..

Xina Space Plans ..

Xina wants Simandou ↠

China - Espionage, Industrial, Intellectual Property Theft

TTP - China's Thousand Talents Scam ..

Warlord Geocorruption ..

Xina Space Plans ..

Circular Economy 

Circular Economies ↬

Citizens, 21st

Nervous Neighbors (Preppers, Survival) ..

Civilian - rationing
Clothes ration, fashion ..

Coping on Rationing .. 

Food - Importing vs Exporting Nations ..
Food Shortages ..

Hemp, Fibres .. 

Life - WW1 Home Front ..

Rationing ..

Resource War - Home Front ..

Common Resources

Common Resources, ToC, Quotas ..

Egypt ⟺ Ethiopia GERD ..

Europe's Water Crisis ..

Communications, Internet

Blockchains, Cryptocurrencies, NFTs ↠

CDNs - Content Delivery Networks ↠

Innovation Race & Crisis - China vs USA ..

TTC - EU-US Trade and Technology Council ..

WWW - World Wide Web - 1990-11-12 ↠

Competition for Natural Resources

Agricultural Futures - 21st C ..

Aquifers, Wells ↬

Arabian-Nubian Shield (ANS) - Mineral Resources ..

Australia - Natural Gas ..

Australia and Indonesia vs East Timor Oil ..

Availability of Metals in Energy Transition ↬

Chinese Vessels Overfishing in Galapagos ↬

Common Resources, ToC, Quotas ..

Egypt ⟺ Ethiopia GERD ..

Energy Crisis - CoV+ ..

Energy Crisis Triggers ..

Energy Geopolitics Eastern Mediterranean, 21st ..

Europe's Water Crisis ..

Food - Importing vs Exporting Nations ..

Future Battle? - Seabed Mining ..

Kuwaiti Oil Fires  ↠ 

Latex - natural rubber ⇝

Material Productivity ..

Net Zero vs Environment ↬

Nubian Shield - Mineral Resources ..

Sand - Future Conflict ..

Socieconomic Collapse in 2040? ..

SpEc - Space Economics ..

Trans African Highway ..

Ukraine's Resources ..

Warlord Geocorruption ..

Weaponized Interdependence - Global Economic Coercion ..

Xina wants Simandou ↠

Construction  

Construction Machines ↠

Harland & Wolff, Shipbuilders, Belfast ..

Vistula Canal - Poland's Kaliningrad Bypass ↠

Demographics

Demographics & Militaries .. 

ECE - Economic Corridors - Europe ..

Population Distribution ↬

Socieconomic Collapse in 2040? ..

Domestic Resources

Agricultural Futures - 21st C ..

Aquifers, Wells ↬

Australia - Natural Gas ..

Availability of Metals in Energy Transition ↬

Black Market, WW2 .. 

Common Resources, ToC, Quotas ..

Europe's Water Crisis ..

Food - Importing vs Exporting Nations ..

Lithium - Essential Greener Resource ..

Material Productivity ..

Saudi Arabia - Water Problem ..

TTC - EU-US Trade and Technology Council ..

Warlord Geocorruption ..

Economy

Agricultural Futures - 21st C ..

Australia - Natural Gas ..

Availability of Metals in Energy Transition ↬

Common Resources, ToC, Quotas ..

Dual-Sector Model (developing economies) ..

Egypt ⟺ Ethiopia GERD ..

Energy as Currency ..

Energy Crisis Triggers ..

Energy Geopolitics Eastern Mediterranean, 21st ..

Food - Importing vs Exporting Nations ..

Future Battle? - Seabed Mining ..

Globalization ⇔ Decoupling ..

Hydrogen Energy - History of German Industrialization ..

Lithium - Essential Greener Resource ..

Migrant Labor - Economic Impacts ..

Material Productivity ..

Naval Arms Exports ..

Net Zero vs Environment ↬

Nordstream 2 Pipeline ⇻ 

North Sea - Fisheries, Oil, Protection, Wind Farms ..

PEMEX & AMLO ..

Oil Reserves - 21st ..

Shipbuilding Industry ..

Socieconomic Collapse in 2040? ..

SpEc - Space Economics ..

Stumbling Economy, Coal Shortage - CCP ..

The Use of Knowledge in Society ~ Hayek (1945) ..

Trans African Highway ..

TTC - EU-US Trade and Technology Council ..

Ukraine's Resources ..

Warlord Geocorruption ..

Wartime Employment (Ruscia 21st) ..

Weaponized Interdependence - Global Economic Coercion ..

Xina wants Simandou ↠

Economic Systems

Blockchains, Cryptocurrencies, NFTs ↠

DIME & National Power ..

ECE - Economic Corridors - Europe ..

Globalization ⇔ Decoupling ..

SCF - Supply Chain Finance ..

The Use of Knowledge in Society ~ Hayek (1945) ..

Wartime Employment (Ruscia 21st) ..

Economic Warfare

Agricultural Futures - 21st C ..

Availability of Metals in Energy Transition ↬

CAI, RCEP - Asia, Europe, USA ..

Cargo Chokepoints - Ports ↠ 

Chinese Vessels Overfishing in Galapagos ↬

Energy Crisis Triggers ..

EW - Economic Warfare ➾ History ..

Food - Importing vs Exporting Nations ..

Kuwaiti Oil Fires  ↠ 

Marine Infrastructure ..

Material Productivity ..

Net Zero vs Environment ↬

Nordstream 2 Pipeline ⇻ 

Shipbuilding Industry ..

SpEc - Space Economics ..

Trans African Highway ..

Vistula Canal - Poland's Kaliningrad Bypass ↠

Warlord Geocorruption ..

Weaponized Interdependence - Global Economic Coercion ..

Wunderwaffen - History of German Industrialization ..

Xina wants Simandou ↠

Economics of Warfare, Weaponry

Black Gold - Baku ..

Cold War 2 ..

Diesel vs Nuclear .. 

EW - Economic Warfare ➾ History ..

Financing War .. 

Global Transportation System - US Military ..

MIC - Military Industrial Complex ..

Mules, WW2 ..

Naval Arms Exports ..

Shipbuilding Industry ..

Supply Logistics - Military ..

Warlord Geocorruption ..

Wartime Employment (Ruscia 21st) ..

Wunderwaffen - History of German Industrialization ..

Education, R&D, Productivity 

Diminishing Educational Returns ..

Strategic Thinking → 

Electronic Equipment 

Semi-Conductor Supply Chains ↠ 

TTC - EU-US Trade and Technology Council ..

WWW - World Wide Web - 1990-11-12 ↠

⧫ Energy, Fuel ..

Engineering

Availability of Metals in Energy Transition ↬

DARPA ..

Engine Development, Fighter Aircraft, WW2 ↠

Global Transportation System - US Military ..

Harland & Wolff, Shipbuilders, Belfast ..

Net Zero vs Environment ↬

Shipbuilding Industry ..

SMRs - Small Nuclear Thorium Reactors  ↠

Supply Logistics - Military ..

Vistula Canal - Poland's Kaliningrad Bypass ↠

Wunderwaffen - History of German Industrialization ..

Entertainment, Morale

Service Central Book Depot .. 

Espionage, Industrial, Intellectual Property Theft

TTP - China's Thousand Talents Scam ..

Essentials

Agricultural Futures - 21st C ..

Aquifers, Wells ↬

Arabian-Nubian Shield (ANS) - Mineral Resources ..

Availability of Metals in Energy Transition ↬

Black Gold - Baku ..

Egypt ⟺ Ethiopia GERD ..

Energy as Currency ..

Energy Crisis - CoV+ ..

Energy Crisis Triggers ..

Europe's Water Crisis ..

Food - Importing vs Exporting Nations ..

Global Transportation System - US Military ..

Wunderwaffen - History of German Industrialization ..

Latex - natural rubber ⇝

Lithium - Essential Greener Resource ..

Material Productivity ..

National Renewable Energy ↠

Net Zero vs Environment ↬

NK Sanction Dodging ..

Nubian Shield - Mineral Resources ..

Oil Reserves - 21st ..

PEMEX & AMLO ..

Petroleum - Oil's History ..

Saudi Arabia - Water Problem ..

SMRs - Small Nuclear Thorium Reactors  ↠

SpEc - Space Economics ..

Supply Logistics - Military ..

Ukraine's Resources ..

UNCLOS - Law of the Sea 1994 ..

Warlord Geocorruption ..

Wartime Employment (Ruscia 21st) ..

Water Speculators ..

Weaponized Interdependence - Global Economic Coercion ..

Xina wants Simandou ↠

Equipment

21st C - Aircraft R&R - AMARG ↠ 

Bailey Bridge ..

British Army - 21st C ..

Global Transportation System - US Military ..

Material Productivity ..

Naval Arms Exports ..

Shipbuilding Industry ..

Supply Logistics - Military ..

TTC - EU-US Trade and Technology Council ..
USATC - US Air Transport Command ..

Fiber

Synthetic Dragline Spider Silk ↬ 

Food

Agricultural Futures - 21st C ..

Black Market, WW2 .. 

Common Resources, ToC, Quotas ..
Coping on Rationing .. 

DfV - Dig for Victory ..

Food - Importing vs Exporting Nations ..
MAF - Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries ..
MoF - Ministry of Food ..

NFS - National Farm Survey ..

Socieconomic Collapse in 2040? ..
Spring Offensive ..  

WarAg - Farming in Britain During the Second World War ..

Waterglass ..
WLA .. 

●● Food & Drink .. 

Fuel, Power

Australia - Natural Gas ..

Availability of Metals in Energy Transition ↬

Black Gold - Baku ..
Coalfields, Resources ..

Diesel vs Nuclear .. 

Egypt ⟺ Ethiopia GERD ..

Electricity Needs - global 3 x 10^9 W ↠ 

Energy as Currency ..

Energy Crisis - CoV+ ..

Energy Geopolitics Eastern Mediterranean, 21st ..

Global Transportation System - US Military ..

Hydrogen Energy - History of German Industrialization ..

In-Flight Refueling ..

Kuwaiti Oil Fires  ↠ 

Lithium - Essential Greener Resource ..

Material Productivity ..
Methane Ice - Seabed Extraction ..

National Renewable Energy ↠

Net Zero vs Environment ↬

NK Sanction Dodging .. 

Nordstream 2 Pipeline ⇻ 
Oil - 2019 Strike on Saudi Facility .. 

Oil Logistics - WW2 ..

Oil Reserves - 21st ..

PEMEX & AMLO ..

Petroleum - Oil's History ..

SAF - Sustainable Aviation Fuel (21st) ..

Shale & Natural Gas ↠

SMRs - Small Nuclear Thorium Reactors  ↠

Socieconomic Collapse in 2040? ..

Supply Logistics - Military ..

Turkey-Israel Maritime Plot .. 

Ukraine's Resources ..

Geopolitics

Agricultural Futures - 21st C ..

Arabian-Nubian Shield (ANS) - Mineral Resources ..

B3W - Build Back Better World (vs BRI) ..

British Overseas Territories ..

CGWHQ - Central Government War Headquarters, Cold War ..

Chokepoints - Suez Canal ..

Churchill vs Chamberlain: Road to Dunkirk ..

CoG - Continuity of Government ..

Cold War 2 ..

DIME & National Power ..

Drang nach Osten & Lebensraum ..

ECE - Economic Corridors - Europe ..

Egypt ⟺ Ethiopia GERD ..

Energy Crisis Triggers ..

Energy Geopolitics Eastern Mediterranean, 21st ..

Eurasia & Power Competition at Sea .. 

Europe's Water Crisis ..

First Island Chain - Asia ..

Food - Importing vs Exporting Nations ..

Freedom of Navigation .. 

Gateway Cities & Water Geopolitics ..

Globalization ⇔ Decoupling ..

India, Indian Ocean ..

Mahan & Naval Strategy ..

MIC - Military Industrial Complex ..

Military Ambitions - China 2021 ..

Neom Project - Saudi Arabia ..

Net Zero vs Environment ↬

Nordstream 2 Pipeline ⇻ 

North Sea - Fisheries, Oil, Protection, Wind Farms ..

Nubian Shield - Mineral Resources ..

Power of Geography ..

Riezler - Septemberprogramm (1914) .. 

Sand - Future Conflict ..

Schlieffen Plan (1905) ..

Size Matters? - Advantages of Small Nations ..

SpEc - Space Economics ..

Stumbling Economy, Coal Shortage - CCP ..

Trade Routes - Silk Road to Globalization ..

Trans African Highway ..

TTC - EU-US Trade and Technology Council ..

Turkey-Israel Maritime Plot .. 

Ukraine's Resources ..

UNCLOS - Law of the Sea 1994 ..

Warlord Geocorruption ..

Weaponized Interdependence - Global Economic Coercion ..

Geostrategic Projection

European Geostrategic Projection ..

Strategic Thinking → 

Warlord Geocorruption ..

Xina Space Plans ..

Governmental Agencies/Acts  

CGWHQ - Central Government War Headquarters, Cold War ..

CoG - Continuity of Government ..

Financing War .. 
Lend-Lease Act 41-3-11 .. 

MAF - Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries ..

MAP - Minister of Aircraft Production .. 

MIC - Military Industrial Complex ..

MoF - Ministry of Food .. 

MoS - Ministry of Supply ..

Neutrality Acts - Isolationist America & Lend-Lease ..  

TTC - EU-US Trade and Technology Council ..

WarAg - Farming in Britain During the Second World War .. 

Green Cost-Benefit

Availability of Metals in Energy Transition ↬

LCA - Life Cycle Assessment ↬

Net Zero vs Environment ↬

Greener Power

Australia - Natural Gas ..

Availability of Metals in Energy Transition ↬

Egypt ⟺ Ethiopia GERD ..

Electric Vehicle Infrastructure ↠

Hydrogen Energy - History of German Industrialization ..

Lithium - Essential Greener Resource ..

Methane Ice - Seabed Extraction ..

National Renewable Energy ↠

Net Zero vs Environment ↬

North Sea - Fisheries, Oil, Protection, Wind Farms ..

SMRs - Small Nuclear Thorium Reactors  ↠ 

Hydroelectricity

Egypt ⟺ Ethiopia GERD ..

Silting of Reservoirs, Channels ↠

Industry 

Australia - Natural Gas ..
Australia - Shipbuilding ..

Availability of Metals in Energy Transition ↬

Black Gold - Baku ..

Diminishing Educational Returns ..

Dual-Sector Model (developing economies) ..

Energy as Currency ..

Energy Crisis - CoV+ ..

Engine Development, Fighter Aircraft, WW2 ↠

Future Battle? - Seabed Mining ..

Globalization ⇔ Decoupling ..

Harland & Wolff, Shipbuilders, Belfast ..

India, Indian Ocean ..

India's Railway System ..

Industrial Revolutions - 1,2,3 & 4 ↠

Kuwaiti Oil Fires  ↠ 

Latex - natural rubber ⇝

Liberty ships, Kaiser method ..

Lithium - Essential Greener Resource ..

Material Productivity ..

MIC - Military Industrial Complex ..

Migrant Labor - Economic Impacts ..

Modern Supply Chains ..

National Renewable Energy ↠

Naval Arms Exports ..

Oil Logistics - Synfuel - WW2 ..

PEMEX & AMLO ..

Petroleum - Oil's History ..

Poverty ..

Railroad Network Size - 21st ↠

Sand - Future Conflict ..

Semi-Conductor Supply Chains ↠ 

Shadow Women & WW2 Production ..

Shale & Natural Gas ↠

Shipbuilding Industry ..

SMRs - Small Nuclear Thorium Reactors  ↠

Socieconomic Collapse in 2040? ..

Strategic Thinking → 

Stumbling Economy, Coal Shortage - CCP ..

Trade Routes - Silk Road to Globalization ..

TTC - EU-US Trade and Technology Council ..

Ukraine's Resources ..

Volkswagen Kübelwagen & Nazis ..

War Factories ..

Wartime Employment (Ruscia 21st) ..

Weaponized Interdependence - Global Economic Coercion ..

Wunderwaffen - History of German Industrialization ..

Labour 

Dual-Sector Model (developing economies) ..

Globalization ⇔ Decoupling ..

Migrant Labor - Economic Impacts ..

Poverty ..

Logistics, Modeling, Strategy

Availability of Metals in Energy Transition ↬

Cargo Chokepoints - Ports ↠ 

Churchill vs Chamberlain: Road to Dunkirk ..

Common Resources, ToC, Quotas ..

DIME & National Power ..

Food - Importing vs Exporting Nations ..

Freedom of Navigation .. 

Global Transportation System - US Military ..

Hawk vs Dove - Aggression vs Pacifism .. 

In-Flight Refueling ..

Lanchester's Laws ..

Mahan & Naval Strategy ..

Maths of War ↠

MIC - Military Industrial Complex ..

MILDEC - Military deception ..

Mules, WW2 ..

Naval Arms Exports ..

Power of Geography ..

Riezler - Septemberprogramm (1914) .. 

Salvo Combat Model ..

SCF - Supply Chain Finance ..

Schlieffen Plan (1905) ..

Strategic Thinking → 

Supply Logistics - Military ..

Trade Routes - Silk Road to Globalization ..

TTC - EU-US Trade and Technology Council ..

Weaponized Interdependence - Global Economic Coercion ..

Maintenance

21st C - Aircraft R&R - AMARG ↠ 

Marine/Submarine Infrastructure

Harland & Wolff, Shipbuilders, Belfast ..

Marine Infrastructure ..

Shipbuilding Industry ..

Vistula Canal - Poland's Kaliningrad Bypass ↠

Manpower 
Demographics & Militaries .. 

Migrant Labor - Economic Impacts ..

Mapping

Ordnance Survey ↠ 

Materiel 

Availability of Metals in Energy Transition ↬

Global Transportation System - US Military ..

Hemp, Fibres ..

In-Flight Refueling ..

Lithium - Essential Greener Resource ..

Material Productivity ..

MIC - Military Industrial Complex ..

Net Zero vs Environment ↬

NK Sanction Dodging ..

Papermill Waste as Cement Component ↬

Sand - Future Conflict ..

Semi-Conductor Supply Chains ↠ 

Ship Breaking ↠

SpEc - Space Economics ..
Starch - fermentation of Aesculus hippocastanum conkers - WW1 ..

Supply Logistics - Military ..

US Overseas Territories & Guano ..

Medicine 
Chelsea Physic Garden ..

Chelsea Physic Garden, WW2 ..

Metal, Mining, Minerals

21st C - Supply-Chains - Cobalt, Congo ↠

Arabian-Nubian Shield (ANS) - Mineral Resources ..

Availability of Metals in Energy Transition ↬

Future Battle? - Seabed Mining ..

Lithium - Essential Greener Resource ..

Material Productivity ..

Metals - Supply ..

Net Zero vs Environment ↬

Nubian Shield - Mineral Resources ..

Recycling Steel ..

Ship Breaking ↠

SpEc - Space Economics ..

Trans African Highway ..

Ukraine's Resources ..

Warlord Geocorruption ..

Xina wants Simandou ↠

MILDEC - Military deception
Camouflage, Deception, Espionage, Intelligence ..

Espionage ..
German Intelligence ..
Hitler's Spies ..
MI5 XX - Double-Cross ..
MI6 - Secret Intelligence Service ..
MILDEC - Military deception ..
Operations Research ..
Razzle Dazzle camouflage ..
River Hamble ..
Secret Service ..

Military

21st C - Aircraft R&R - AMARG ↠ 

British Army - 21st C ..

Budgets (Military) ..

CCS - Combined Chiefs of Staff .. 

CGWHQ - Central Government War Headquarters, Cold War ..

CoG - Continuity of Government ..

Cold War 2 ..

Diesel vs Nuclear .. 

DIME & National Power ..

Djibouti Bases - China's 1st Abroad .. 

Freedom of Navigation .. 

Funding NATO ..

Global Transportation System - US Military ..

Harland & Wolff, Shipbuilders, Belfast ..

In-Flight Refueling ..

India, Indian Ocean ..

Mahan & Naval Strategy ..

MIC - Military Industrial Complex ..

MILDEC - Military deception ..

Military Ambitions (2021) - Xina ..

Military Logistics .. 

Naval Arms Exports ..

PLAN's Carrier 003 ..

2021 Power Projection - US Military ..

Riezler - Septemberprogramm (1914) .. 

Schlieffen Plan (1905) ..

Shipbuilding Industry ..

Supply Logistics - Military ..

USATC - US Air Transport Command ..

Volkswagen Kübelwagen & Nazis ..

Warlord Geocorruption ..

Xina Space Plans ..

Military Costs
Budgets (Military) ..

Global Transportation System - US Military ..

Harland & Wolff, Shipbuilders, Belfast ..

Naval Arms Exports ..

Shipbuilding Industry ..

Supply Logistics - Military ..

Wartime Employment (Ruscia 21st) ..

Wunderwaffen - History of German Industrialization ..

Munitions 

Bones as Resource ..

DM Kineton ..  

MIC - Military Industrial Complex ..

Naval Arms Exports ..

Nationalism

Drang nach Osten & Lebensraum ..

Natural Resources

Agricultural Futures - 21st C ..

Aquifers, Wells ↬

Arabian-Nubian Shield (ANS) - Mineral Resources ..

Australia - Natural Gas ..

Australia and Indonesia vs East Timor Oil ..

Availability of Metals in Energy Transition ↬

Black Gold - Baku ..

Chinese Vessels Overfishing in Galapagos ↬

Common Resources, ToC, Quotas ..

Egypt ⟺ Ethiopia GERD ..

Energy as Currency ..

Energy Crisis - CoV+ ..

Energy Crisis Triggers ..

Energy Geopolitics Eastern Mediterranean, 21st ..

Europe's Water Crisis ..

Food - Importing vs Exporting Nations ..

Future Battle? - Seabed Mining ..

Gateway Cities & Water Geopolitics ..

Hydrogen Energy - History of German Industrialization ..

Latex - natural rubber ⇝

Lithium - Essential Greener Resource ..

Material Productivity ..

Methane Ice - Seabed Extraction ..

Mongolia ..

National Renewable Energy ↠

Net Zero vs Environment ↬

Nordstream 2 Pipeline ⇻ 

North Sea - Fisheries, Oil, Protection, Wind Farms ..

Nubian Shield - Mineral Resources ..

Oil Reserves - 21st ..

Papermill Waste as Cement Component ↬

PEMEX & AMLO ..

Petroleum - Oil's History ..

Power of Geography ..

Poverty ..

Sand - Future Conflict ..

Saudi Arabia - Water Problem ..

Shale & Natural Gas ↠

SMRs - Small Nuclear Thorium Reactors  ↠

Socieconomic Collapse in 2040? ..

Solar Desalination ↠

SpEc - Space Economics ..

Stumbling Economy, Coal Shortage - CCP ..

Trans African Highway ..

Ukraine's Resources ..

Warlord Geocorruption ..

Weaponized Interdependence - Global Economic Coercion ..

Xina wants Simandou ↠

Naval, Marine

Australia - Shipbuilding ..

Canals - 21st Century Chokepoints ..

Cargo Chokepoints - Ports ↠ 

Chinese Vessels Overfishing in Galapagos ↬

Cold War 2 ..

Common Resources, ToC, Quotas ..

Diesel vs Nuclear .. 

Freedom of Navigation .. 

Future Battle? - Seabed Mining ..

Global Transportation System - US Military ..

Harland & Wolff, Shipbuilders, Belfast ..

Heavy Lift Ships ↠

India, Indian Ocean ..
Liberty ships, Kaiser method .. 

Mahan & Naval Strategy ..

Marine Infrastructure ..

MIC - Military Industrial Complex ..

Military Ambitions - China 2021 ..

Naval Arms Exports ..

Naval Blockade of British Isles ..

NK Sanction Dodging ..

North Sea - Fisheries, Oil, Protection, Wind Farms ..

PLAN's Carrier 003 ..

Russian vs US Naval Weaponry ↠

Ship Breaking ↠

Shipbuilding Industry ..

Slow Steaming ↠

Supply Logistics - Military ..

TEUs, Container Ships, Dredging - 21st C ↠

Trade Routes - Silk Road to Globalization ..

Turkey-Israel Maritime Plot .. 

UNCLOS - Law of the Sea 1994 ..

Vistula Canal - Poland's Kaliningrad Bypass ↠

Wargaming & Battle of the Atlantic ..

Nuclear

Atomic Energy Authority, '54 ↠  

Diesel vs Nuclear .. 

Net Zero vs Environment ↬

SMRs - Small Nuclear Thorium Reactors  ↠

Three Mile Island + 42 years ↠

> ρ - Oceans, Seas >>

Oil & Gas & Coal

Australia - Natural Gas ..

DIME & National Power ..

Energy as Currency ..

Energy Crisis - CoV+ ..

Energy Crisis Triggers ..

In-Flight Refueling ..

Kuwaiti Oil Fires  ↠ 

Nordstream 2 Pipeline ⇻ 

PEMEX & AMLO ..

Shale & Natural Gas ↠

Stumbling Economy, Coal Shortage - CCP ..

Supply Logistics - Military ..

Productivity

Energy as Currency ..

Energy Crisis - CoV+ ..

Energy Crisis Triggers ..

Food - Importing vs Exporting Nations ..

Globalization ⇔ Decoupling ..

Industrial Revolutions - 1,2,3 & 4 ↠

Material Productivity ..

Migrant Labor - Economic Impacts ..

Net Zero vs Environment ↬

Poverty ..

Shipbuilding Industry ..

Socieconomic Collapse in 2040? ..

Wartime Employment (Ruscia 21st) ..

Weaponized Interdependence - Global Economic Coercion ..

Project Management

Project Failures - Causes, Remedies ↠ 

R&D

DARPA ..

Diminishing Educational Returns ..

Innovation Race & Crisis - China vs USA ..

Latex - natural rubber ⇝

SMRs - Small Nuclear Thorium Reactors  ↠

Strategic Thinking → 

Tech Ċold Ŵar 2 ..

The Use of Knowledge in Society ~ Hayek (1945) ..

Wunderwaffen - History of German Industrialization) ..

Xina Space Plans ..

Recycled, Recovered - Salvage

21st C - Aircraft R&R - AMARG ↠ 

Bones as Resource ..

Papermill Waste as Cement Component ↬

Ship Breaking ↠

Resource War 20th 

Agricultural Futures - 21st C ..

Black Gold - Baku ..

Harland & Wolff, Shipbuilders, Belfast ..

Kuwaiti Oil Fires  ↠ 

Mules, WW2 ..
Naval Blockade of British Isles ..

Net Zero vs Environment ↬

Oil Logistics - Synfuel - WW2 ..

Petroleum - Oil's History ..
Resource War ..  

Resource War - Home Front ..

Trade Routes - Silk Road to Globalization ..

US Overseas Territories & Guano ..

Wunderwaffen - History of German Industrialization) ..

Resource War 21st

21st C - AI Weaponry ..

21st C - Aircraft R&R - AMARG ↠ 

Aquifers, Wells ↬

Arabian-Nubian Shield (ANS) - Mineral Resources ..

Australia - Natural Gas ..

Australia and Indonesia vs East Timor Oil ..

Availability of Metals in Energy Transition ↬

Canals - 21st Century Chokepoints ..

Cargo Chokepoints - Ports ↠ 

Chinese Vessels Overfishing in Galapagos ↬

Chokepoints - Suez Canal ..

Cold War 2 ..

Common Resources, ToC, Quotas ..

Crimean Water Crisis ..

DIME & National Power ..

Egypt ⟺ Ethiopia GERD ..

Energy as Currency ..

Energy Crisis Triggers ..

Energy Geopolitics Eastern Mediterranean, 21st ..

Europe's Water Crisis ..

Freedom of Navigation .. 

Future Battle? - Seabed Mining ..

Gateway Cities & Water Geopolitics ..

Global Transportation System - US Military ..

Hydrogen Energy - History of German Industrialization ..

In-Flight Refueling ..

Lithium - Essential Greener Resource ..

Material Productivity ..

Methane Ice - Seabed Extraction ..

Mongolia ..

National Renewable Energy ↠

Net Zero vs Environment ↬

NK Sanction Dodging ..

Nordstream 2 Pipeline ⇻ 

North Sea - Fisheries, Oil, Protection, Wind Farms ..

Nubian Shield - Mineral Resources ..

Oil Reserves - 21st ..

Petroleum - Oil's History ..

Poverty ..

Sand - Future Conflict ..

Saudi Arabia - Water Problem ..

Shale & Natural Gas ↠

SMRs - Small Nuclear Thorium Reactors  ↠

Socieconomic Collapse in 2040? ..

Solar Desalination ↠

SpEc - Space Economics ..

Stumbling Economy, Coal Shortage - CCP ..

Supply Logistics - Military ..

Trade Routes - Silk Road to Globalization ..

Trans African Highway ..

TTC - EU-US Trade and Technology Council ..

Turkey-Israel Maritime Plot .. 

US Overseas Territories & Guano ..

Vistula Canal - Poland's Kaliningrad Bypass ↠

Warlord Geocorruption ..

Wartime Employment (Ruscia 21st) ..

Weaponized Interdependence - Global Economic Coercion ..

Xina Space Plans ..

Xina wants Simandou ↠

Space

DARPA ..

Space Force, USA ..

SpEc - Space Economics ..

Starlink .. 

Starlink - Space X ..

Xina Space Plans ..

>> STEM >>>

Supply Chains

21st C - Aircraft R&R - AMARG ↠ 

Agricultural Futures - 21st C ..

Airports - modern mega-airports ..

Australia - Natural Gas ..

Bailey Bridge ..

BrexTWIT Impacts ..

Chinese Vessels Overfishing in Galapagos ↬

● Chokepoints - Trade, Resource Logistics ..

Chokepoints - Bab-el-Mandeb Strait, Djibouti Bases ..

Chokepoints - Geopolitical - CCP's Narrow Passes ..

Chokepoints - La Pérouse (Sōya) Strait ..

Chokepoints - Panama Canal ..

Chokepoints - Royal Navy, Britain ..

Chokepoints - South China Sea .. 
Chokepoints - Strait of Hormuz ..

Chokepoints - Strait of Malacca ..
Chokepoints - Suez Canal ..

Chokepoints - Turkish Straits ..

CoG - Continuity of Government ..

Cold War 2 ..

Common Resources, ToC, Quotas ..

Diesel vs Nuclear .. 

ECE - Economic Corridors - Europe ..

Energy Crisis - CoV+ ..

Europe's Water Crisis ..

First Island Chain - Asia ..

Food - Importing vs Exporting Nations ..

Freedom of Navigation .. 

Future Battle? - Seabed Mining ..

Global Transportation System - US Military ..

Globalization ⇔ Decoupling ..

Heavy Lift Ships ↠

In-Flight Refueling ..

Kuwaiti Oil Fires  ↠ 
Lend-Lease Act 41-3-11 ..

Lithium - Essential Greener Resource ..

Mahan & Naval Strategy ..

Marine Infrastructure ..

Material Productivity ..

Methane Ice - Seabed Extraction ..

MIC - Military Industrial Complex ..

Modern Supply Chains .. 

Mules, WW2 ..

Naval Arms Exports ..

Naval Blockade of British Isles ..

Net Zero vs Environment ↬

NK Sanction Dodging ..

Oil Reserves - 21st ..

Petroleum - Oil's History ..

Power of Geography ..

Railroad Network Size - 21st ↠

Saudi Arabia - Water Problem ..

SCF - Supply Chain Finance ..

Semi-Conductor Supply Chains ↠ 

Shale & Natural Gas ↠

Ship Breaking ↠

Shipbuilding Industry ..

SpEc - Space Economics ..

Stumbling Economy, Coal Shortage - CCP ..

Supply and Demand ↠

Supply Logistics - Military ..

21st C - Supply-Chains - Cobalt, Congo ↠

TEUs, Container Ships, Dredging - 21st C ↠

Trade Routes - Silk Road to Globalization ..

Trans African Highway ..

TTC - EU-US Trade and Technology Council ..

UNCLOS - Law of the Sea 1994 ..

US Overseas Territories & Guano ..

Vistula Canal - Poland's Kaliningrad Bypass ↠

Warlord Geocorruption ..

Weaponized Interdependence - Global Economic Coercion ..

Xina wants Simandou ↠

Survival, Emergency Preparedness 

Cyberattack, System Collapse ↠

⧫ Taiwan ⇔ China ..

ROC Armed Forces ..

Taiwan ..

Tech - AI, Cyberwar

Tech Ċold Ŵar 2 ..

Trade

Africa's Challenging Geography ..

Australia - Natural Gas ..

Availability of Metals in Energy Transition ↬

Blockchains, Cryptocurrencies, NFTs ↠

Europe's Water Crisis ..

Globalization ⇔ Decoupling ..

Lithium - Essential Greener Resource ..

Mahan & Naval Strategy ..

Material Productivity ..

Merchant Marine Economics ↠ 

Modern Supply Chains .. 

Naval Arms Exports ..

NK Sanction Dodging ..

Poverty ..

Railroad Network Size - 21st ↠

SCF - Supply Chain Finance ..

Stumbling Economy, Coal Shortage - CCP ..

Trade Routes - Silk Road to Globalization ..

Trans African Highway ..

TTC - EU-US Trade and Technology Council ..

Turkey-Israel Maritime Plot .. 

UNCLOS - Law of the Sea 1994 ..

Vistula Canal - Poland's Kaliningrad Bypass ↠

Warlord Geocorruption ..

Weaponized Interdependence - Global Economic Coercion ..

Trade, Transport, Travel

Africa's Challenging Geography ..

Agricultural Futures - 21st C ..

Airports - modern mega-airports ..

Australia - Natural Gas ..

BrexTWIT Impacts ..

Canals - 21st Century Chokepoints ..

Cargo Chokepoints - Ports ↠ 

● Chokepoints - Trade, Resource Logistics ..

Chokepoints - Bab-el-Mandeb Strait, Djibouti Bases ..

Chokepoints - Geopolitical - CCP's Narrow Passes ..

Chokepoints - Royal Navy, Britain ..

Chokepoints - South China Sea .. 
Chokepoints - Strait of Hormuz ..

Chokepoints - Strait of Malacca ..
Chokepoints - Suez Canal ..

ECE - Economic Corridors - Europe ..

Energy Crisis - CoV+ ..

Europe's Water Crisis ..

Food - Importing vs Exporting Nations ..

Freedom of Navigation .. 

Global Transportation System - US Military ..

Globalization ⇔ Decoupling ..

Harland & Wolff, Shipbuilders, Belfast ..

Heavy Lift Ships ↠

India, Indian Ocean ..

India's Railway System ..

Latex - natural rubber ⇝

Mahan & Naval Strategy ..

Mapping Challenges ↠

Mongolia ..
Navigation - Natural ↠

Net Zero vs Environment ↬

North Sea - Fisheries, Oil, Protection, Wind Farms ..

Oil Reserves - 21st ..
Paper Towns & Cartographic Projections ↠

Petroleum - Oil's History ..

Poverty ..

Power of Geography ..

Railroad Network Size - 21st ↠

SCF - Supply Chain Finance ..

Semi-Conductor Supply Chains ↠ 

Ship Breaking ↠

Shipbuilding Industry ..

Slow Steaming ↠

Stumbling Economy, Coal Shortage - CCP ..

Supply Logistics - Military ..

Trade Routes - Silk Road to Globalization ..

Trans African Highway ..

TTC - EU-US Trade and Technology Council ..

Vistula Canal - Poland's Kaliningrad Bypass ↠

Weaponized Interdependence - Global Economic Coercion ..

Transportation

Africa's Challenging Geography ..

Bailey Bridge ..

Canals - 21st Century Chokepoints ..

ECE - Economic Corridors - Europe ..

Electric Vehicle Infrastructure ↠

EMV - Electric Military Vehicles ..

Europe's Water Crisis ..

Freedom of Navigation .. 

Global Transportation System - US Military ..

Harland & Wolff, Shipbuilders, Belfast ..

Heavy Lift Ships ↠

India's Railway System ..

Lithium - Essential Greener Resource ..

Mahan & Naval Strategy ..

Mules, WW2 ..

Privatization - Railways ..

Silting of Reservoirs, Channels ↠

Supply Logistics - Military ..

Trans African Highway ..

Vistula Canal - Poland's Kaliningrad Bypass ↠

Volkswagen Kübelwagen & Nazis ..

⧫ Autonomous Robotics, Weaponry ..

● Geopolitics: H2O ..

◊ Ecopolitics ↬

Water Tensions ⇼ = ..

American West - Water Scarcity ⇼

 Aquifers, Wells ↬
Blue Economy ⇼
Cargo Chokepoints - Ports ↠

China's Water Problem ↬

China's Water Problems ⇼ 

China's Water Problems (Sponge Cities) ↠

Chinese Vessels Overfishing in Galapagos ↬

Common Resources, ToC, Quotas ..
Crimean Water Crisis ⇼
Desalination - Problematic Solution ↬
Ecosystem (Aus) - Threat of Collapse ↬

Egypt ⟺ Ethiopia GERD ..
Egypt's Water Crisis ⇼

Europe's Water Crisis ⇼  
Freedom of Navigation ⇼

Freshwater ↠

Gateway Cities & Water Geopolitics ..
GERD - Ethiopia’s Renaissance Dam (vs Egypt, Sudan) ↬
India, Indian Ocean ⇼
Inevitable? War over Water ⇼

Libya's Fossil Water, Pipelines ↬

Mega-Drought - US West's 21st C Crisis ↬
Mexico City's Water Crisis ⇼
Nile ⇼

North Sea - Fisheries, Oil, Protection, Wind Farms ⇼
PFAS - Forever Chemicals Contaminating Water →

PLAN's Carrier 003 ..

Saudi Arabia - Water Problem ⇼

Silting of Reservoirs, Channels ↠

Solar Desalination ↠ 

Solar Rivers - reduced evaporation/increased efficiency ↠ 

South-to-North Water Transfer Project (China) ⇼ 
Speculators ⇼

Stan Water Conflict ⇼ 
SUDS - Sustainable Urban Drainage Systems ↠

Water Plight (China vs India, Bangladesh) ..
Water Plight (China vs India, Bangladesh) ⇼
Water Speculators ⇼ 

Water Tensions - China ⇼
Wetland Biomes ↬

Yarlung Tsangpo - China's Proposed Mega-Dam ⇼

Weaponry

21st C - AI Weaponry ..

21st C - Aircraft R&R - AMARG ↠ 

British Army - 21st C ..

CGWHQ - Central Government War Headquarters, Cold War ..

Diesel vs Nuclear .. 

Djibouti Bases - China's 1st Abroad .. 

Global Transportation System - US Military ..

Innovation Race & Crisis - China vs USA ..

Mahan & Naval Strategy ..

MIC - Military Industrial Complex ..

Military Ambitions - China 2021 ..

Naval Arms Exports ..

PLAN's Carrier 003 ..

Purloining Designs ..

Russian vs US Naval Weaponry ↠

Shipbuilding Industry ..

Stealing Military Hardware .. 
USATC - US Air Transport Command ..
Wunderwaffen - History of German Industrialization) ..

●● Air .. 

●● Agriculture, Food Production ..

●● Home Front ..

●● Kit, Equipment .. 

●● Logistics, Tactics ..
●● Sea .. 

●● Technology .. 

●● Weaponry ..

>>> Resources

>> AI >>>

>> Armaments Industries >>>

>> BRI >>>

>> Chip Wars >>>

>> Chokepoints >>>

>> Demographics >>>

>> Digital Warfare >>>

>> Economics >>>

>> Education >>>

>> Energy >>> 

>> Espionage, Intelligence >>>

>> EW - Economic Warfare >>>

>> Food >>>
>> Food Security >>>

>> Hybrid Warfare >>>

>> India >>>

>> Industrial, IP Espionage >>>
>> Industry >>>

>> Infrastructure >>>

>> Intelligence, Espionage >>>

>> Innovation >>>

>> Logistics, Strategy >>>

>> Military >>>

>> Military Costs >>>

>> NoXios (DIS)Order >>>

>> Nuclear >>>

>> Red Sea & Persian Gulf >>>

>> Resources >>>

>> STEM >>>

>> Supply Chains >>>

>> Tech, Chips >>>

>> Tensions >>>

>> Trade >>>

>> Turkey >>>

>> Weaponry >>>

>> WW3 >>>

>> Xina >>>

>> XIR Evil >>>

● Chokepoints - Trade, Resource Logistics

In military strategy, a choke point (or chokepoint) is a geographical feature on land such as a valley, defile or bridge, or maritime passage through a critical waterway such as a strait, which an armed force is forced to pass through in order to reach its objective, sometimes on a substantially narrowed front and therefore greatly decreasing its combat effectiveness by making it harder to bring superior numbers to bear. A choke point can allow a numerically inferior defending force to use the terrain as a force multiplier to thwart or ambush a much larger opponent, as the attacker cannot advance any further without first securing passage through the choke point.

https://www.eia.gov/international/analysis/special-topics/World_Oil_Transit_Chokepoints .

Geopolitics of Maritime Chokepoints - Geopoliticus > .

> Border Issues >>

● Chokepoints - Trade, Resource Logistics ..

Arctic Chokepoints and Littorals ..

CAATSA & Sanctions ..

Canals - 21st Century Chokepoints ..

Cargo Chokepoints - Ports ↠ 

Chip Wars ..

Chokepoints - Arctic ..

Chokepoints - Bab-el-Mandeb Strait, Djibouti Bases ..

Chokepoints - Caribbean ..

Chokepoints - Geopolitical - CCP's Narrow Passes ..

Chokepoints - Indian Ocean ..

Chokepoints - La Pérouse (Sōya) Strait ..

Chokepoints - Panama Canal ..

Chokepoints - Royal Navy, Britain ..

Chokepoints - South China Sea .. 
Chokepoints - Strait of Hormuz ..

Chokepoints - Strait of Malacca ..
Chokepoints - Suez Canal ..

Chokepoints - Turkish Straits ..

24-3-26 Baltimore Bridge Disaster ↠ 

Cargo Chokepoints - Ports ↠ 

Cargo Chokepoints - Shipping ..

"Dutch Disease" ..

First Island Chain - Asia ..

First & Second Island Chains - China ..

Forking GIUK Gap ..

Freedom of Navigation .. 

Geopolitical Choke Points - CCP's Narrow Passes ..

Geostrategic Challenges - Europe 2022 ..

Inland Waterways ..

Material Productivity ..

Net Zero vs Environment ↬

Oil Reserves - 21st ..

Poverty ..

SpEc - Space Economics ..

Suwalki Gap ..

Weaponized Interdependence - Global Economic Coercion ..

White Sea–Baltic Canal ..

ΧίΧίР's Naval Ambitions - РLΑΝ ..

Economic Warfare

Chip Wars ..

"Dutch Disease" ..

Resource Competition 2024 ..

SpEc - Space Economics ..

Weaponized Interdependence - Global Economic Coercion ..

Why Nations Prosper or Fail ..

Mapping

Ordnance Survey ↠ 

Marine/Submarine Infrastructure

24-3-26 Baltimore Bridge Disaster ↠ 

Inland Waterways ..

Marine Infrastructure ..

> Shipping >>

Chokepoints - Tzu >> .

Geoeconomics & Geostrategy - Chokepoints, Supply Chains - Compass Rose >> .

Geography +/- ~ Chink in Armor >> .

Geostrategic Projection - Indo-Pacific - Compass Rose >> .

Chokepoints - Chink in Armor >> .

Geography +/- ~ Chink in Armor >> .

Arabian-Nubian Shield (ANS) - Mineral Resources

2021 Precambrian Nubian Shield: world-class mining destination - CaspianReport > .

24-2-27 MIT Study Reveals Why Africa Is Still Poor - EcEx > .

24-1-26 Saudi Arabia's Catastrophic "Iran" Problem - Hindsight > .

23-8-11 Saudi Arabia's Challenging Geography - Real > .

23-4-26 Why powerful nations want bases in tiny Djibouti - Real > .

23-3-13 Iran, Xina, Saudi Arabia - Influence  Wangling - Update > .

22-10-11 Gulf States, "Dutch Disease", Big Dumb Mega Projects | EcEx > .

Egypt-UAE 

24-6-6 Egypt is a Ticking Time Bomb - gtbt > . skip > .

24-4-12 Egypt is selling city site to UAE for $35 billion - Caspian > .

24-3-16 MBZ & UAE - thriving in a dangerous world - Caspian > .

> Houthis >>   > Red Sea, Persian Gulf >>   > Yemen >>   

24-12-19 IDF Spox. Regarding Israeli Strikes on Houthi Targets - IDF > .

2022 How the UN Doomed Somalia into Becoming a Warzone - Front > .

Socotra - Island between Yemen and Somalia | DW > .

22-1-5 Tigray Conflict - Could Ethiopia Break Apart à la Yugoslavia? - MyTake > .

> Iran >>  > Iran~ >>  > Iran - Allies, Enemies >>   >> Iran, XIR >>>

24-4-16 [XIR] Iran's use of [terrorist] proxies to [harm] USA and Israel - Caspian > .

24-3-28 5 reasons Iran is involved in so many global conflicts - BBC > .

> Red Sea, Persian Gulf >> 

Pontus Herculis et Sinus Persicus - pro libertate >> .

UAE - United Arab Emirates ..  

24-3-16 MBZ & UAE - thriving in a dangerous world - Caspian > .

> Yemen >> > HYe - History of Yemen >>

24-3-5 Himyarite Kingdom: Forgotten Empire of Pre-Islamic Arabia (doc) - K&G > .

24-2-4 [History of Conflict (tribal, colonial, religionist) in Yemen] - K&G > .

24-3-10 [History of Yemen] Why Houthis Control Half of Yemen - K&G > .

22-10-3 War in Yemen. Is Peace On The Horizon? [no] - gtbt > .

22-6-14 Why Yemen is Dying (and Nobody Cares) - Nova Lectio International > .

Geography +/- ~ Chink in Armor >> .

Yemen & Region - anffyddiaeth >> .

The Arabian-Nubian Shield (ANS) is an exposure of Precambrian crystalline rocks on the flanks of the Red Sea. The crystalline rocks are mostly Neoproterozoic (1 billion to 541 million years ago) in age. Geographically - and from north to south - the ANS includes parts of Israel, Jordan, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Yemen, and Somalia. The ANS in the north is exposed as part of the Sahara Desert and Arabian Desert, and in the south in the Ethiopian Highlands, Asir province of Arabia and Yemen Highlands.

The ANS was the site of some of man's earliest geologic efforts, principally by the ancient Egyptians to extract gold from the rocks of Egypt and NE Sudan. This was the most easily worked of all metals and does not tarnish. All of the gold deposits in Egypt and northern Sudan were found and exploited by Egyptians. The earliest preserved geologic map was made in 1150 BCE to show the location of gold deposits in Eastern Egypt; it is known as the Turin papyrus. New gold discoveries have been found in Sudan, Eritrea, and Saudi Arabia.

Pharonic Egyptians also quarried granite near Aswan and floated this down the Nile to be used as facing for the pyramids. The Greek name for Aswan, Syene; is the type locality for the igneous rock syenite. The Romans followed this tradition and had many quarries especially in the northern part of the Eastern Desert of Egypt where porphyry and granite were mined and shaped for shipment.

Precious and industrial metals, including gold, silver, copper, zinc, tin, and lead, have been mined in Saudi Arabia for at least 5,000 years. The most productive mine in Saudi Arabia, Mahd adh Dhahab ("Cradle of Gold"), has been periodically exploited for its mineral wealth for hundreds or even thousands of years and is reputed to be the original source of King Solomon's legendary gold. Today, mining at Mahd adh Dhahab is conducted by the Saudi Arabian Mining Company, Ma'aden. Deposits of iron, tungsten, mineral sands, copper and phosphates have been found in many locations. Mining in the Eastern Desert of Egypt and Sudan is limited due to shortage of water and infrastructure. One option would be to bring water from the Nile by pipeline.

Metals - Supply ⇼