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Former Naval Officer. House husband, father, think-tanker & part-time PhD candidate, KCL. All views / opinions my own. R/T =/= agreement/endorsement.
London, England
Joined November 2020
Play up, Dukies... "Went the day well? We died and never knew; But well, or I'll, England, We died for you." https://t.co/tqWVkkUquH
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I hate being *that* guy sniping from the sidelines... But everything I'm seeing smacks of "stupid & energetic" approach to the RNs problems: we've got to do something so let's just do it. Rather than stopping, *thinking*, and tackling the *actual* issues https://t.co/BsFdENZyXK
wavellroom.com
How should a modern Royal Navy treat its people? A function? An asset? Or something to invest in: people as a capability?
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I'm guessing where this has come from. & I'm pretty sure if we foisted untrained, short-term personnel onto frontline duties with "special ops" folk, we'd get short shrift. But it's *fine* to assume that, unless you wear Crye, you're not really doing anything.
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Oh, & let's just ask: 1) how are low skilled/trained pers supposed to be useful in our highly-engineered, highly-automates, technologically advanced platforms? 2) who is carrying the risk in terms of safeguarding etc for these individuals? Clearly, a "good idea" club special.
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I'm *assuming* that this will come with a concomitant upgrade to: Recruitment office staffing; Ph1 resourcing & investment; platform availability etc etc. Or would that be expecting too much?
Exclusive: School and college leavers will be paid to serve overseas on Royal Navy ships as part of a military gap year scheme to be brought in amid a shortage of sailors
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Seeing "manly men" dit on about their return to chivalry... Oh, so you're all about wisdom, largesse towards your followers, martial prowess, and piety, right?
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Trip away with the boys and had a couple of hours to kill in the hotel room. Just long enough to introduce them to...
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...and in case anyone wants to know my reasoning... Please see this *authoritative* history... And consider *why* RM historians (*cough* Julian Thompson, for eg) skip over the period 1664-1755... 7 pages for 100 yrs in a 600 page book? One where he only lists *4* line regts?
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Ref "Royal Marines 361"... Remember: 1) The Duke of York and Albany's Regt of Maritime foot were disbanded in 1689. 2) The descendent regts that took Gibraltar (1704) are @LANCS_REGT @RYORKS_REGT @MercianRegiment @RiflesRegiment @ROBLX_PWRR 3) Corps of RM: 3 April 1755.
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Stop. Calling. Yourselves. "Warfighters". If you want to cosplay as Call of Duty LARPers in your own time, so be it. As members of the *profession of arms* - be that soldiers, sailors, air-people(?) - at least pretend to be above such reductive, puerile, comic-book tropes.
@AndyAitcheson No greater irony than the word 'clarity' in this tweet. Incidentally: the earliest known use of 'warfighting' (as a noun for the practice or conduct of fighting a war) is in 1961, in The Air Reservist, a U.S. military publication - which reminds me, I need some more loo-roll.
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Trafalgar: Nelson's Victory; Anson's Legacy. A reminder that we only had a Nelson because we had an Anson - a man who built a navy capable of dominating the oceans through investment in people and infra. An example for modern times? https://t.co/R4Cuk8fJX5
rusi.org
The Royal Navy has an unhealthy obsession with Nelson and Trafalgar. If it must idolise a Georgian hero, then perhaps it should look to the father of the modern navy: Lord George Anson.
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Something I wrote last year, but which wasn't taken forward internally. Littoral warfare is bigger than the Cdo Force. A focus on the needs of a single, maritime force element neglects the needs of defence as a whole & misconstrues the strategic context we face. Thoughts my own
The Challenges Of Littoral Warfare For The UK: A Critical Perpective https://t.co/EVGJ0ruB4I Via @wavellroom
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What levers - legal, regulatory, budgetary - are being made available to pers that they don't already have? And what concomitant barriers are being removed? Because without those two measures, this is just noise. & where, ultimately, does the buck stop?
.@GenGJenkinsRM orders 100-day plan to fix Royal Navy submarine availability crisis https://t.co/B5RdTNxj2K
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Busy prepping my alternative take on next week's traditional activity... Less Nelson; more Anson! #AlternativeforTrafalgar #amateurstalktactics
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It could be churlish of me to point out that the Army have been doing this *for years* (Fight Club UK, unit Warhammer tournaments etc), and we at #RNSSC have championed it with @Naval_History & @TDGNavalHistory etc. Glad to see the RM have caught up... Now for the rest of the RN!
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When - as Corps Tutor - I suggested incorporating COTS wargaming into everyday life back in 2016/17, I was laughed out of school. How times change!
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Road trip with @c21st_sailor across the Suwalki Gap ended at the Polish-Lithuanian-Russian border...
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Opening the Klaipeda University Conference with the (ex) boss @c21st_sailor . Always handy going first, and in your native language(!)... Job done. Watering hole to find. En Avant!
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Pre conference beer o'clockers in Klaipeda... Found an RN approved watering hole!
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What can be done when the will exists...and when you understand the permissions in maritime law. BZ @MarineNationale
The French Navy has interdicted the Russian Shadow Fleet tanker MV Pushpa in the Bay of Biscay. Pushpa was suspected of launching drones into Danish airspace before changing its name to Boracay. (Src: https://t.co/sFfcWStVSM,
@MT_Anderson, @tom_bike) https://t.co/MOlcbK9ulg
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