Modern drone warfare is becoming big business

 

Modern military drone use has exploded into a distinct industrial complex, with defense, consumer, and dual‑use sectors converging around cheap, networked, and increasingly autonomous systems. It is reshaping both battlefield dynamics and the political economy of war, but so far without delivering clean “decisive victory” in the conflicts where it is most visible.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6]}

Scale and economics of the drone market

Industry and analyst projections now treat “drone warfare” as its own global market segment rather than a peripheral technology. Recent reports estimate that the global market for drone warfare was roughly 25 billion USD in 2024 and could approach 40–42 billion USD by 2030, implying high single‑digit to low double‑digit annual growth. Defense‑focused assessments similarly forecast the military drone segment growing from about 15–16 billion USD in 2025 to around 22–23 billion USD by 2030 as states modernize their forces.^[4][5]

A key driver is the cost ratio: small drones priced in the hundreds or thousands of dollars are routinely used to disable or destroy platforms worth millions, such as tanks, artillery pieces, and fixed installations. This asymmetry is encouraging both wealthy and resource‑constrained actors to invest heavily in unmanned systems as a relatively “efficient” way to project force and attrit an opponent.^[2][3][1]

Selected examples of the business side

• AeroVironment (US) has become a major “pure play” unmanned systems firm, supplying small UAVs, ground robots, and loitering munitions such as the Switchblade family; its revenues are projected around 800 million USD for fiscal 2025, up about 12 percent year‑over‑year.^[2]
• The company recently secured a 1 billion USD contract with the US Army for Switchblade loitering munitions, and additional export deals have followed as Ukraine’s use of these systems drew global attention.^[2]
• Larger primes (Lockheed Martin and others) are embedding drone‑like autonomy into legacy platforms, such as programs to enable optionally uncrewed flight of Black Hawk helicopters under DARPA contracts.^[2]
• Private defense tech firms like Anduril are developing families of expendable attack drones and loitering munitions, positioning themselves as software‑centric “defense startups” in a space historically dominated by traditional primes.^[2]

How drones are changing warfare

Drones sit at the intersection of precision strike, robotics, and cheap sensing, and recent conflicts have turned the front lines into real‑time laboratories.

In Ukraine, both Russia and Ukraine have fielded large numbers of drones across multiple classes: long‑range fixed‑wing UAVs for strikes hundreds of kilometers behind the front, and massive fleets of small first‑person‑view (FPV) quadcopters used for real‑time reconnaissance and precision attack. Ukraine in particular has treated drones as an asymmetric equalizer, targeting a production goal of roughly one million FPV drones in 2024 and integrating dedicated drone units into every major fighting formation. Russia has leaned heavily on Iranian‑origin Shahed‑series drones, then moved to domestic production; these relatively cheap long‑range drones use low‑altitude flight paths and maneuvering to evade defenses while striking infrastructure deep in Ukrainian territory.^[3][2]

Operationally, this has pushed militaries to:

• Treat the sky close to the front as saturated with cheap ISR and attack platforms, making concealment and movement far more difficult.^[1][3]
• Build out layered counter‑UAS defenses that blend small arms, vehicle‑mounted guns, electronic warfare (jamming and spoofing), and increasingly directed‑energy concepts.^[3][1]
• Accept that relatively low‑skill, low‑cost units (small FPV teams) can have outsized tactical effects when networked with targeting intelligence and artillery.^[1][3]

Analysts note that unmanned systems are clearly transforming tactics, logistics, and force protection, but they have not yet changed the fundamental strategic logic of war: conflicts in Ukraine and the Middle East remain grinding and indecisive despite extensive drone use.^[3][1]

Business logic: from hardware to full ecosystems

The “big business” side is less about individual airframes and more about vertically integrated ecosystems:

• Hardware: Airframes from palm‑sized quadcopters to large fixed‑wing UAVs, plus launchers, ground control stations, and expendable munitions.^[3][2]
• Software: Autonomy stacks, computer‑vision targeting, swarm coordination, and secure communications platforms, often pitched as AI‑driven enhancements.^[1][3][2]
• Services: Training of “drone warriors,” maintenance, logistics, and battlefield analytics, sometimes on subscription or performance‑based contracts.^[3][2]
• Counter‑drone: Jammers, radar and EO/IR sensors tuned for small targets, interceptor drones, and experimental laser systems, particularly in countries facing high drone threat levels.^[1][3]

Because civilian drone supply chains (batteries, motors, sensors, airframes) overlap heavily with military use, states and firms increasingly blur lines between commercial and military production. This dual‑use character makes export control and arms control regimes more difficult to enforce while broadening the industrial base that can be mobilized for war.^[1][2][3]

Emerging and projected trends

Several trajectories stand out in current analysis:

• Increasing autonomy: To overcome jamming and reduce operator load, more systems are moving toward onboard AI‑based targeting and navigation, with long‑term expectations of “level 5” highly autonomous operation.^[2][3]
• Swarming: Many militaries and firms are experimenting with large, coordinated drone swarms to overwhelm defenses and distribute sensing and strike capabilities across dozens or hundreds of cheap nodes.^[3][1]
• Rapid innovation cycles: Active conflicts provide immediate feedback loops—drones, countermeasures, and counter‑countermeasures evolve on timescales of months rather than traditional multi‑year acquisition cycles.^[2][3]
• Financialization: Exchange‑traded funds and thematic investment products now explicitly market “defense technology” or “drone and autonomous systems” as high‑growth opportunities, channeling civilian capital into the sector.^[6][2]

Ethical, political, and civil‑society dimensions

From a governance and knowledge‑systems perspective, several tensions surface:

• Accessibility: The same cost asymmetry that makes drones attractive to smaller states also lowers barriers for non‑state actors and militias, creating a wider diffusion of precision‑strike capability.^[1][3]
• Civilian risk: Small, precise munitions are often framed as minimizing casualties, yet they enable more frequent, lower‑threshold uses of force, and civilian infrastructure has become a routine target in drone campaigns.^[3][1]
• Legal and moral responsibility: As autonomy increases, accountability for targeting decisions becomes more diffuse, complicating traditional frameworks around command responsibility and laws of armed conflict.^[1][3]
• Industrial lock‑in: Once states and companies build capacity and profit streams around unmanned systems, there are strong political and economic incentives to continue using and exporting them, even when strategic benefits are ambiguous.^[2][1]

For someone working with aerial technologies in a civilian environmental context, the divergence is stark: the same sensor‑platform logic that enables watershed mapping, crop monitoring, and habitat surveys is being optimized elsewhere for persistent surveillance and lethal targeting. That duality is now foundational to the political economy of drones rather than incidental to it.^[3][1][2]

Is your interest here more in the economic/industrial dynamics, or in the ethical and governance implications of this shift for how societies relate to violence and technology?

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• https://www.reddit.com/r/dancarlin/comments/1duo7mq/how_large_of_a_change_have_drones_brought_to/ 

Please identify ideas and past proposals to transfer water from Western Canada to the US

 

I'll research this topic for you. Let me search for both historical proposals and more recent ideas on bulk water transfers from Western Canada to the US.

I have rich material. Let me do one more targeted search on recent (2024-2026) Trump-era discussions and any Alberta-specific proposals to round out the answer.

I have enough material to write a comprehensive response. Let me compose it now.

Ideas and Past Proposals to Transfer Water from Western Canada to the US

Proposals to move water south from Western Canada span more than 60 years, ranging from continental-scale engineering schemes to commercial tanker exports, with renewed political attention under the Trump administration in 2025–26. Below is a synthesis of the major ones, roughly chronological.

The continental megaprojects (1950s–1970s)

NAWAPA (North American Water and Power Alliance) — 1964

The most ambitious proposal ever conceived. Developed by the Ralph M. Parsons Company in California, with roots in 1950s US Army Corps of Engineers studies, NAWAPA envisioned diverting water from the Yukon, Liard, Peace, Fraser, Skeena, and Columbia rivers into a 500-mile-long reservoir flooding the Rocky Mountain Trench along the BC–Alberta border (Wikipedia – NAWAPA, California Water Library brochure). Water would enter the US in northern Montana, be pumped over the Rockies via the "Sawtooth Lifts" in Idaho, and feed the Colorado, Missouri–Mississippi, Rio Grande, and the depleted Ogallala Aquifer. The plan called for 240 dams, 112 diversions, 17 aqueducts, up to six nuclear plants for pumping, and a "Transcontinental Canal" linking Alberta to Lake Superior. Parsons even floated using peaceful nuclear explosions to excavate trenches. Total delivery: ~158 million acre-feet/year. The Corps studied it through the 1960s but it was never formally adopted.

Central North American Water Project (CeNAWP) — 1968

Proposed by Roy Tinney of the Washington State Resource Centre as a less extreme alternative to NAWAPA: canals and pumping stations linking western Canadian waters through Great Bear, Great Slave, Athabasca, and Winnipeg lakes to the Great Lakes.

Kuiper Diversion Scheme — 1966

Professor E. Kuiper (University of Manitoba) proposed diverting the Mackenzie River across the Prairies along a similar route to CeNAWP.

Western States Water Augmentation Concept (WSWAC) — 1968

L.G. Smith's two-part plan: (1) divert the Liard south to the Rocky Mountain Trench, then through tunnels into the Fraser, Columbia, and Kootenay to the US; (2) move Smoky, Athabasca, and Saskatchewan river water through the Qu'Appelle to Lake Winnipeg and south.

Magnum Diversion Scheme — late 1960s

L. Magnusson's plan to divert the Peace through the Athabasca, North Saskatchewan, Battle, South Saskatchewan, and Qu'Appelle systems into the Souris (which flows south into North Dakota).

Saskatchewan-Nelson Basin study — 1972

A nine-volume report from the Prairie Provinces Water Board outlining 23 diversion and 55 dam projects. Officially framed as serving western Canadian needs, critics argued its real purpose was US export.

North Thompson Reservoir Project

Proposed by US firm K.V.A. Resources and William Clancy's Multinational Power and Water: 1 million acre-feet/year from BC's North Thompson into the Columbia drainage, ultimately to Shasta Lake in California.

GRAND Canal — 1959, revived 1985

Newfoundland engineer Thomas Kierans proposed damming James Bay to create a giant freshwater lake, then pumping 20% south through the Great Lakes and onward to dry regions of Canada and the US, including potentially the Ogallala Aquifer. Estimated C$100 billion to build, C$1 billion/year to operate. Failed environmental assessment but periodically resurfaces.

Commercial tanker and pipeline proposals (1980s–1990s)

• BC export licences (mid-1980s–1990s): British Columbia issued licences to seven companies totaling ~44,626 acre-feet/year, mostly for tanker export.

• Snowcap Waters / Sun Belt Water Inc. (1990–1999): A California firm partnered with BC's Snowcap to ship water by tanker to drought-stricken California. After BC imposed a moratorium, Sun Belt filed a NAFTA Chapter 11 notice seeking US$10.5 billion, arguing water was a tradable commodity under CUFTA/NAFTA. No arbitration ultimately proceeded but the case became the defining cautionary tale (CBC News, Public Citizen analysis).

• These efforts triggered the 1999 federal moratorium on bulk water exports and provincial bans (BC's 1985 Water Protection Act and later the federal Transboundary Waters Protection Act) (Minnesota Journal of International Law, Colorado Environmental Law Journal).

Modern revivals and adjacent infrastructure

• Site C dam (BC, completed 2024): Critics including agronomist Wendy Holm have argued Site C's location on the Peace River makes it "exactly where it needs to be" to enable NAWAPA-style transfers east across Alberta and the Prairies toward Texas and the US Southwest — a long-game bulk-export thesis BC Hydro disputes.

• Frontier Centre for Public Policy (2019): A "tidewater" policy paper from the Prairie think tank revisited the case for treating Canadian water as an exportable continental resource.

• Alberta Water Act amendments (2025–26): Alberta merged the Peace, Slave, and Athabasca into a single basin and, for the first time, permitted "lower-risk" interbasin transfers by ministerial order rather than requiring a special act of the legislature. Critics note this loosens a long-standing barrier that had foreclosed export-style diversions.

• Trump's "giant faucet" claims (2024–2025): President Trump repeatedly asserted there is a "very large faucet" in British Columbia that could be turned to send Canadian water to drought-stricken Southern California. Fact-checkers, BC officials, and the US Army Corps confirmed no such infrastructure exists, but the rhetoric — paired with US moves around the Columbia River Treaty — has revived Canadian anxieties about bulk export pressure (Washington Post fact-check, NYT on the Columbia River Treaty, The Tyee).

• Columbia River Treaty (1961/1964, renegotiation 2024–25): Not a diversion proposal per se, but the only operational large-scale managed cross-border water arrangement involving Western Canada. Its modernized terms reduce BC's hydro-related downstream obligations by ~25%, and the Trump administration's pause on ratification has reopened debate about leveraging Canadian water for US benefit (Government of Canada, NYT).

Where things stand

Despite recurring interest, no large-scale Western Canada–to–US bulk water transfer has ever been built. Federal and provincial moratoria, Indigenous rights, treaty obligations, environmental impact, and sheer cost (NAWAPA was projected at US$300 billion in 1990s dollars) have kept every megaproject on the shelf. The active fronts today are (1) the Columbia River Treaty renegotiation, (2) Alberta's loosened interbasin transfer rules, (3) ongoing small-scale bottled/tankered exports, and (4) political signaling from Washington that periodically resurrects the underlying idea (Broadview, The Tyee).

If you'd like, I can go deeper on any single proposal (e.g., NAWAPA's hydrology assumptions, the Sun Belt NAFTA case, or the implications of Alberta's recent Water Act changes for Red Deer / South Saskatchewan basin flows).

With the Western US drying out, I sense many eyes looking north...

You're reading the signal correctly. The pressure differential is real and growing, and the political economy that kept these proposals dormant for 50 years is visibly weakening on several fronts at once. Let me search for the most current evidence of who is "looking north" and how seriously.

Your instinct is sound — and the evidence shows the gravitational pull northward is intensifying right now, not theoretically. Here's what the gradient looks like in May 2026.

The pressure has gone from chronic to acute

The Colorado River system is no longer drifting toward crisis; it is inside one. As of February 2026, the seven basin states missed their federal deadline to agree on post-2026 operations, and Reclamation announced it would move forward unilaterally with a draft EIS. Lake Powell sits about 8 feet above minimum power pool, with hydropower cessation possible by December 2026 (Drought.gov, Climate Adaptation Center). The May 2026 Lower Basin bridge deal commits Arizona to a 27% cut of its Colorado allocation — roughly 10% of the state's total annual water use. That is the kind of number that changes political math.

Meanwhile the Ogallala continues its long decline across the High Plains, and 100% of the Colorado Basin was in drought as of late summer 2025. When senior water rights start getting curtailed in Phoenix, Las Vegas, and Imperial Valley, the political tolerance for "the water is wasting into the sea up north" rhetoric goes up sharply.

The barriers that held for 50 years are softening

Three of the four pillars that kept the megaprojects shelved have cracks:

1. Federal moratorium architecture. Canada's 1999 federal ban and the Transboundary Waters Protection Act still stand — but Alberta's 2026 Water Act amendments now allow "lower-risk" interbasin diversions by ministerial order rather than a special act of the legislature (CBC Calgary). That removes a major procedural barrier inside the province most ideologically inclined to monetize water.

2. Trade-law shield. NAFTA Chapter 11 is gone, replaced by CUSMA, which most lawyers read as offering Canada stronger ground to refuse bulk export — but that hasn't been tested, and a future US administration could reopen the trade frame as leverage.

3. The political "third rail" status of water export. This is the pillar most visibly weakening. Trump's repeated "giant faucet in British Columbia" framing (Washington Post), the July 2025 US walk-away from the modernized Columbia River Treaty (NYT), and pieces like Phys.org's January 2025 analysis "Climate change is fueling Trump's desire to tap into Canada's water" have moved the conversation from think-tank fringe to White House podium. The Tyee's coverage frames it as an "obsession" (The Tyee).

4. Engineering feasibility. This pillar actually got stronger on the export side: Site C is now operational, and critics like Wendy Holm have long argued it sits "exactly where it needs to be" for NAWAPA-style continental transfers east of the Rockies (Watershed Sentinel).

What the eyes looking north are actually looking at

From a watershed-management perspective, the realistic vectors aren't NAWAPA 2.0 — that remains politically and physically improbable. The more plausible pressure points are, roughly in order of likelihood:

• Columbia River Treaty leverage. The US already gets Canadian-stored water; the live question is how much, on what terms, and whether ratification of the modernized treaty becomes a bargaining chip for broader "water cooperation" language. This is the most likely actual battleground.

• Incremental commercial exports — tanker, bottled, and small pipeline — reopening through provincial discretion, especially if Alberta's new interbasin rules get tested.

• Aquifer-recharge framing. Politically easier to sell than "selling water" — pitched as restoring the Ogallala or stabilizing Lake Mead rather than as export. The original NAWAPA brochure used exactly this language (California Water Library).

• Sub-basin transfers in the Saskatchewan-Nelson and Milk/St. Mary systems, where transboundary infrastructure already exists and modifications are less visible than a Rocky Mountain Trench reservoir.

• Indirect transfer via electricity and food. "Virtual water" embedded in Canadian hydropower exports and irrigated Prairie agriculture is already flowing south at scale and avoids the political symbolism of pipes.

The Central Alberta angle

The piece worth watching closely from where you sit is the South Saskatchewan / Red Deer / Bow basin envelope under Alberta's amended Water Act. The province has now formally opened the door — narrowly, with environmental conditions — to interbasin moves that were previously legislatively gated (Alberta.ca, CBC). The South Saskatchewan basin is already fully allocated and stressed. Any "lower-risk" ministerial transfer from the Peace-Slave-Athabasca system into the southern basins would, in effect, be infrastructure-compatible with onward delivery to the Milk River and the US — even if that's not the stated intent. The legal and physical preconditions are quietly being assembled.

Whether anyone in Edmonton or Washington intends to walk through that door is a separate question from whether the door is now open. Your instinct that "many eyes are looking north" is well-calibrated; the people most worth watching are not the ones giving speeches, but the ones quietly rewriting the procedural rules.

Message from Charles Aulds

 Russian President (for the past 14 years) Vladimir Putin came to the conclusion years ago that the West (particularly the US, which once enjoyed full control over all NATO countries), will never accept a strong Russia. Putin expressed his opinion that the fundamental barrier was the Americans' unshakeable belief that their social system was the best and the only choice for other countries. Russian society (history and culture) and American exceptionalism are fundamentally incompatible.

Since 1889, the US has a history of military domination, by involving itself in foreign conflicts whenever another state threatens to achieve hegemony in a region. Four examples should serve:

• Imperial Germany during World War I

• Nazi Germany during World War II

• Imperial Japan during World War II

• The Soviet Union during the Cold War

Putin had to accept this reality: The US will do anything it can to keep Russia from achieving its own version of the American Dream. And that's true for every other nation the United States wants to keep in a subservient role.

Canada is waking up to that reality now. And, remember the old adage: there is no enemy like a friend betrayed.

Charles

What causes high pressure systems to form over oceans, like the one sitting off the western coast of Turtle Island at this time?

 

Now I have excellent information to give a thorough, scientifically grounded answer. Let me compose it.

The high-pressure system sitting off the western coast of Turtle Island (North America) right now is the North Pacific High — a semi-permanent subtropical anticyclone. Its formation is driven by a cascade of global atmospheric mechanics rooted in solar heating, the Hadley Cell, and the Coriolis effect. Here's how it all comes together:

The Root Cause: Equatorial Heating

Everything begins at the equator, where intense solar radiation heats the surface and causes vast masses of warm, moist air to rise. As this air ascends, it converges from both hemispheres at the Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ) — where the trade winds from the northeast and southeast collide, fuelling enormous lines of towering thunderstorms that pump trillions of tonnes of air high into the upper atmosphere.^[1][2]

The Hadley Cell: The Engine Beneath

This rising equatorial air is the upward limb of the Hadley Cell, one of three great meridional circulation cells that organize global atmospheric flow. Once that rising air hits the tropopause — which acts as a lid, since the stratosphere above is very stable — it can go no higher. Instead, it fans out laterally toward both poles in the upper atmosphere, heading toward the subtropics as the upper branch of the Hadley Cell.^[2][3][4]

Subsidence: Where the High Pressure Builds

As this poleward-moving air cools radiatively, it becomes denser and begins to sink (subside) back toward the surface at roughly 30° North latitude — right in the subtropical band. This descending air compresses and warms adiabatically, suppressing cloud formation and piling up at the surface to create a dome of high pressure. The subsidence is particularly strong on the eastern sides of these oceanic highs, which is why the coast of British Columbia, Washington, Oregon, and California experience such pronounced dry conditions under the system's influence.^[1][5]

Why Oceans, Not Continents?

Oceans are the preferred home for these subtropical highs because land masses heat up dramatically in summer, creating thermal low pressure over the continents that displaces or weakens the high over land. Oceanic highs, by contrast, are thermally reinforced over cool ocean water — the ocean surface beneath them is kept cold partly by coastal upwelling driven by the high's own winds, which creates a strong temperature inversion (warm air over cold sea) that further stabilizes and anchors the system.^[6][5][7]

Why the North Pacific High Strengthens in Spring and Summer

The system you're seeing build right now, in mid-May, is characteristic of the seasonal cycle. As Northern Hemisphere land masses warm, the equatorial heating belt shifts north, driving the Hadley Cell's subsidence zone — and therefore the subtropical high — northward and poleward. By summer, the North Pacific High migrates well up the west coast of Turtle Island, blocking Pacific storm tracks from reaching the coast and delivering the hot, dry conditions typical of BC and Alberta summers. In winter, it retreats equatorward, allowing Pacific cyclones to sweep in off the ocean.^[8][9]

Topography and the Walker Cell Add Detail

The Rocky Mountains and Coast Ranges play a reinforcing role — the preferential topography and strong land-sea temperature contrast along the BC and Alberta coast help anchor the high's position on the eastern Pacific rather than elsewhere. Additionally, the Walker Cell — an east-west atmospheric circulation over the Pacific — contributes: cold upwelling in the eastern Pacific keeps sea-surface temperatures lower off the North American coast, which reinforces sinking air and high pressure at the surface.^[8][4]

The Current Situation and El Niño Signal

Meteorologists are noting a "ridge of high pressure taking hold" over the province right now, with Environment and Climate Change Canada confirming warm, dry conditions spreading from BC into the prairies. Notably, an El Niño is developing this year, with NOAA forecasting a shift from the current La Niña/neutral phase to El Niño by summer. El Niño conditions tend to amplify the North Pacific High and push warmer, drier weather across Western Canada — meaning this ridge may prove more persistent and intense than typical through the summer months.^[10][11][12]

In essence, the high-pressure dome off the western coast of Turtle Island right now is the visible surface expression of one of Earth's most fundamental atmospheric engines — solar-driven equatorial convection, global-scale circulation cells, and the ocean's capacity to anchor cool, stable air masses that resist cloud and storm development.

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