Andrew Livsey
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PhD candidate at KCL: Cold War sea power theory. Sails and cycles slowly. Views own, RT aren’t.
Joined July 2018
RT @yuanyi_z: It doesn't matter if the Chagos deal will cost £30bn or £3bn. A single penny is still too much. Me in @unherd. .
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As Rachel Reeves damns the laws of arithmetic while trying to block out the ever-expanding fiscal black hole in which Britain finds itself, a new Telegraph headline will have provoked another round...
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RT @ArchieHall: Energy in Britain has gotten scarce—and thus expensive. Prices are high in absolute terms, and further above the European….
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As a minor detail, contrary to the statement below, in air ops at sea one does not always recover with sufficient fuel to divert to an alternate. I’ve seen the contrary planned and executed often. At sea if the local weather is poor one can move the air base, unlike on land.
Air operations at sea cannot always guarantee a safe recovery, either through an incident on deck or poor weather making a landing dangerous/impossible. For that reason you always recover with sufficient fuel to divert to an alternate (usually a land base).🧵1/4.
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RT @ChagosDeal: For the total cost of the Chagos ‘deal’, the government could provide an additional £1,183 in funding per child in English….
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RT @PatPorter76: My piece in @TheCriticMag, on the need for British realism abroad.
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Things are bad in Britain in many ways. Europe’s long-standing senior ally, the United States, is distancing itself from European commitments.
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Suggesting that a carrier deployment has inertia when land based airfields are static and the task group’s ships can alter course by 180 degrees in around six minutes is a level of chutzpah that I only aspire to.
3/ When the decision was made to commit to CSG25, we had little idea how things would evolve in Gaza, Iran, Yemen, India/Pakistan or even the US. The intertia inherent in a deployment like this means having to ride out the circumstances rather than influencing them by choice.
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RT @FukuyamaFrancis: My latest: The Material Basis of Changing Gender Relations
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It’s not about woke ideology.
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RT @nicholadrummond: This is the best summary of the current geopolitical situation I have seen. Sir Alex Younger was head of MI6 between 2….
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RT @ianpacemain: I do believe quite a bit of this stems from institutions employing academics with no interest in critical thought or debat….
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RT @RUSI_org: Warship modularisation can be a viable approach, but successful adoption involves significant trade-offs and requires time an….
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Modularisation can be a viable approach, but successful adoption involves significant trade-offs and requires time and investment to get right.
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I will never write as well as Giles. Nor do I care as much about a single word, though the replacement, some years ago, of 'littoral' with 'literal' does still rankle. And I try to be more conciliatory. Still, it's a great (if also wrong) e-mail.
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Having just had an article of mine back somewhat mangled by the sub-editor, fortunately in time to catch it, I am reminded of the glorious (and inappropriate) e-mail from Giles Coren complaining about the changing of a word in a piece of his for the Times from 2008.
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An interesting article, much of which is relevant to the UK's circumstances.
So the RAN doesn’t feel unloved about putting missiles where they weren’t ( here's my new piece for Lowy proposing arming and expanding an Australian Merchant Navy: The TLDR:.- the proposal is to have ships lightly equipped for.
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King's College London have kindly published a summary of my article on the development of Royal Navy tactical doctrine in the Cold War. With the return of peer competition there are some lessons for today. 1/2.
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RT @militaryhistori: The misery of the WW2 Arctic Convoys: how their troubled history reflects post-war East-West geopolitics. Did they do….
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At this time of year, as a military historian I am frequently asked about wartime winters. They are the most difficult time for service personnel, far from the families and battling with the elements…
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RT @BritishOverseas: 🎉 The Chagos Islands Parliamentary petition has surpassed 10,000 signatures. Every single constituency in the UK has….
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The United Kingdom has agreed for Mauritius to have sovereignty over the Chagos Archipelago. I think this is strategically dangerous, and should be reviewed.
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