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Coffee Break: Armed Madhouse – Ocean Presence: A New Model of Naval Power

Naval power has long been built around scarce, expensive warships that concentrate sensing, weapons, communications, and crews in a few sophisticated platforms. Autonomy and global networking now make another architecture possible: a persistent naval mesh that distributes those functions among large numbers of specialized unmanned systems.

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‘Maybe they’ll shoot you’: Carney recalls Trump’s joke about White House key gift

As tensions remain high between the U.S. and Canada amid a contentious trade war, Prime Minister Mark Carney summed up the currently fraught relationship between the two neighbours in a lighthearted…

  • Prime Minister Mark Carney shared a funny story about receiving a key to his hometown Fort Smith.
  • President Trump gave Carney a grand key, jokingly saying "Maybe they'll shoot you".
  • Carney contrasted Canada's open-door policy with potential U.S. reception.

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