○ Geopolitics: Bodies of Water

A body of water, waterbody, 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, wetlands, reservoirs, harbors, rivers, 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 waterways. Tidal 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.

Geopolitical Imperatives, Water .
Lists of bodies of water w
List: links to bodies of water, atlas .

The Geopolitics of Water in theMiddle East: fantasies and realities (pdf)

Types .

AGW Threat to Oceans ..

>> Red Sea & Persian Gulf >>>

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Military Comparisons | ● Military Comparisons ..

● Military Training ..

● tactics, training ..

● Military/Services - Hand Weapons/Packs ..

● Military/Services - Kit/Uniforms/Clothing ..

● Military Strategy ..

⧫ Wargaming, Hypothetical Warfare ..

Air

3D Fokker DVII Biplane, WW1 ..
Air tactics: Boelcke, Mannock, Malan ..

21st C - Aircraft R&R - AMARG ↠ 
Cardington - airships, barrage balloons ..

CFS - Central Flying School ..  

G-Forces ..

Global Transportation System - US Military ⇼

Lack of RAF training & preparedness -- Churchill .. 

Link Trainer ..  

Missiles - R&D ↠

Pilot training - declining commercial .. 

Purloining Designs ..

RAF .. 

Sidewinder - Heat-Seeking Missile ↠

Talacre RAF Range ..

Tiger Moth trainer and mobile dispersal huts ..

WAAF ..

Animals 

Courier Pigeons ..

Military Animals - Training ↬

> Arab Problems >>

Army, Home Guard, Commando
Auxiliaries ..

Breaching Explosives ..

Bailey Bridge ..

BEF versus German Infantry ..

British Army - 21st C ..

British Military 1950s ..  

Commando training ..  

Commandos, WW2 ..

39-4-27 Conscription Introduced in Britain - 27 April 1939 .. 

Dad's Army rank structure - LDV ..

Fairbairn & Sykes .. 

Home Guard training school ..  

Kinesiology of Parkour ..

LDV - Home Guard ..  

Mercenary Armies ..

Military Adaptations ↠ 

MRAP - Mine-Resistant Ambush Protected Vehicles ..

Sandhurst - Royal Military Academy ..

SOE training ..

Tactical Adaptation .. 

Urban Tactics ..

Vers l'armée de métier - Charles de Gaulle (1934) .. 

Wehrmacht Uniforms ..

Wunderwaffen - History of German Industrialization ..

Civilian & Military 

ESB - Expeditionary Sea Base ⇼

Mechanical Typewriter ..

Civvies

Men's Clothing ..

> Combat Operations >>

LSCO - Large Scale Combat Operations ..

Tactical Adaptation .. 

Commando
Commando training ..

Commandos, WW2 ..

Fairbairn & Sykes .. 

Kinesiology of Parkour ..

Red Army Special Ops Training (1923) ..

SOE training .. 

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

NSA - National Service Act .. 

Construction  

Construction Machines ↠

Defense

Military Adaptations ↠ 

Missiles - R&D ↠

SAM - Surface-to-Air Missile Defense (S-500) ..

Sidewinder - Heat-Seeking Missile ↠

Tactical Adaptation .. 

Volunteer Militias (Ukraine 2022) ..

Elitism

Pluck vs Luck - Meritocracy vs Elitism ..

Future 

Future Air Power ..

Geostrategic Projection

European Geostrategic Projection ..

Home Front
Auxiliaries ..

39-4-27 Conscription Introduced in Britain - 27 April 1939 ..

Dad's Army rank structure - LDV ..

Home Guard training school ..  

LDV - Home Guard ..  

NSA - National Service Act .. 

Volunteer Militias (Ukraine 2022) ..

Wunderwaffen - History of German Industrialization ..

IQ Testing 

Belligerent & Ineffective ..

IQ Testing →

Strategic Thinking → 

Luftwaffe

3D Fokker DVII Biplane, WW1 ..

Manpower 

Demographics & Militaries ..

Mapping

Ordnance Survey ↠ 

MENA 

Iran Military ..

Military Costs
Budgets (Military) ..

Global Transportation System - US Military ⇼

Military Analysis, R&D, Strategy 

RAND & American Strategy ..

Strategic Thinking → 

Military Kit

Military Adaptations ↠ 

Night Vision Goggles ↠

NVG - Night Vision Goggles, Scopes ..

NWU - Navy Working Uniform ..

Scopes - History ..

> Military Logistics >>

ESB - Expeditionary Sea Base ⇼

Military Strategy Writings

Achtung – Panzer! (1937) ..

Classic Works in Strategy and Diplomacy ..

Douhet - The Command of the Air (1921) ..

Geopolitics & Military Books (Modern) ..

Infantry Attacks - Infanterie greift an (1937) ..

Strategy - Aleksandr Svechin (1926) ..

Vers l'armée de métier - Charles de Gaulle (1934) .. 

War Against France - Schlieffen Plan (1905) ..

Military Training

Belligerent & Ineffective ..

Commando training ..  

Commandos, WW2 ..

G-Forces ..

Hazardous Military Training ..

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

Red Army Special Ops Training (1923) ..

Tactical Adaptation .. 

Tank Crew Training ..

Military Transport 

ESB - Expeditionary Sea Base ⇼

Vintage Bikes ↠

WW2 Bikes & Motorbikes ↠

Military Weaponry

Military Adaptations ↠ 

Missiles - R&D ↠

Sidewinder - Heat-Seeking Missile ↠

Tactical Adaptation .. 

Militias

Volunteer Militias (Ukraine 2022) ..

Navy, Marines
Battle of the Atlantic - Wargaming ..

Commando training ..  

ESB - Expeditionary Sea Base ⇼

Global Transportation System - US Military ⇼

NWU - Navy Working Uniform ..

Small Military Craft ↠

Submarine (3D) - WW2 ↠

Recruitment

US Recruitment Stratagems, 21st ..

Reservists

1939 jajn ..

39-4-27 Conscription ... Britain - 27 April 1939 ..

British Forces - 21st C ..

Reservists - 21st ..

Territorial Army ... BEF - 20th ..

"Your Year For Germany" ..

Scopes

Scopes - Future ..
Scopes - History ..

Special Operations, Spy
Camp X - STS 103 ..

Commando training ..  

Commandos, WW2 ..

Fairbairn & Sykes .. 

OSS : Spy Training ..
SOE Kit, Disguise ..  

SOE training ..

>> STEM >>>

Surveillance, Intelligence

R-U War - Satellite Imagery ↠

Surveillance Cameras - Satellites, Planes, Drones ↠

Tactics
Battle of the Atlantic - Wargaming ..

Breaching Explosives ..

MILDEC - Military deception ..

Strategic Thinking → 

Tactical Adaptation .. 

Vers l'armée de métier - Charles de Gaulle (1934) .. 

Theft

Purloining Designs ..

Stealing Military Hardware .. 

Transport

ESB - Expeditionary Sea Base ⇼

Global Transportation System - US Military ⇼

MRAP - Mine-Resistant Ambush Protected Vehicles ..

Small Military Craft ↠

Tactical Adaptation .. 

Volkswagen Kübelwagen & Nazis ..

Urban Combat 

Breaching Explosives ..

USSR, Russia

Putin's Young Cannon Fodder ..

Red Army Special Ops Training (1923) ..

Zapad ..

Vehicles
EMV - Electric Military Vehicles ..

Lamborghini Militaria ↠

Military Adaptations ↠ 

Tactical Adaptation .. 

Tank Crew Training ..

Vintage Bikes ↠

WW2 Bikes & Motorbikes ↠

Vessels 

ESB - Expeditionary Sea Base ⇼

Warfare

Belligerent & Ineffective ..

IWM - Imperial War Museum ..

MILDEC - Military deception ..

MRAP - Mine-Resistant Ambush Protected Vehicles ..

Sandhurst - Royal Military Academy ..

Strategic Thinking → 

Tactical Adaptation .. 

⧫ Wargaming, Hypothetical Warfare ..

Weaponry

3D Fokker DVII Biplane, WW1 ..

21st C - AI Weaponry ..

British Army - 21st C ..

Israel's High-Tech-Weaponry Rise ..

Lockheed Martin ..

MIC - Military Industrial Complex ..

Military Adaptations ↠ 

Missiles - R&D ↠

Purloining Designs ..

Sidewinder - Heat-Seeking Missile ↠

Stealing Military Hardware .. 

Submarine (3D) - WW2 ↠

Tactical Adaptation .. 

Tank Crew Training ..

US Firearms, WW1 ..

US Firearms, WW2 .. 

Wunderwaffen - History of German Industrialization) ..

Wehrmacht 

Infantry Attacks - Infanterie greift an (1937) ..

Volkswagen Kübelwagen & Nazis ..

Wehrmacht Uniforms ..

Women
Battle of the Atlantic - Wargaming ..

LDV - Home Guard ..  

National Association of Training Corps for Girls ..
Nurses', Women's Clothing - WW1 .. 

SOE training .. 

WAAF .. 

Youth
Hitlerjugend ..
National Association of Training Corps for Girls ..

Putin's Young Cannon Fodder ..

1908-1-24 "Scouting for Boys" ..

21st

21st C - Aircraft R&R - AMARG ↠ 

British Army - 21st C ..

21st USA

MRAP - Mine-Resistant Ambush Protected Vehicles ..

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

⧫ Autonomous Robotics, Weaponry ..

● Military/Services - Hand Weapons ..

● Military/Services - Kit/Uniforms/Clothing ..  

● Military Training ..

● tactics, training ..

●● Education, Training .. 

● Military/Services - Hand Weapons/Packs

WW1 
British WW1 Kit ..

Soldier's Weapons, Kit - WW1 ..

Webley Revolver & British Officer's Kit ..

WW2
Hand Weapons - WW2 ..

MD1 - Ministry of Defence ..

Military Costs
Budgets (Military) ..

● Military/Services - Kit/Uniforms/Clothing

Clothing, Uniforms
ANZAC uniforms ..

British Uniforms - Evolution .. 

British WW1 Kit ..
Helmets - WW1, WW2 ..
Nurses', Women's Clothing - WW1 ..

NWU - Navy Working Uniform ..
Pith Helmet & British Officer's Kit ..

Tank Crew Headgear ..

UVS - Voluntary Service Uniforms ..
UWLA - Women's Land Army ..

Wehrmacht Uniforms ..

Drones 

Drone Warfare ↠
Naval Drones ↠

Kit, Equipment
Home Guard (LDV) kit ..

Jerry cans ..
MREs, Field Kitchens ..  

Night Vision Goggles ↠

Pumps ..  

ROC Plotting Instrument, Height Corrector .. 

Scopes - History ..

SOE Kit, Disguise .. 
Webley Revolver & British Officer's Kit .. 

Mapping

Ordnance Survey ↠ 

Military Costs
Budgets (Military) ..

● Military Strategy

Military Comparisons | ● Military Comparisons ..

> A2/AD >> 

> Combat Operations >>

LSCO - Large Scale Combat Operations ..

Tactical Adaptation .. 

Defense

SAM - Surface-to-Air Missile Defense (S-500) ..

Tactical Adaptation .. 

Geostrategic Projection

European Geostrategic Projection ..

Mapping

Ordnance Survey ↠ 

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 Costs
Budgets (Military) ..

Special Operations

Commando training ..  

Commandos, WW2 ..

Fairbairn & Sykes .. 

Trench Warfare 

Field Fortifications - Defense in Depth ..

Tactical Adaptation .. 

USSR, Russia

Zapad ..

⧫ Wargaming, Hypothetical Warfare ..

Weaponry - Defensive/Offensive

ATGM & Missiles ..

MD1 WW2 - Ministry of Defence ..