The Unconventional Soldier Podcast
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Former British Army | Stories from WW2, Cold War, Afghanistan & Iraq |Military history | Service voices | Book reviews | 🎧 Available everywhere | Links 👇
England, United Kingdom
Joined February 2021
Time for the dog walk, gym, run or commute? Then time to listen to the latest podcast "Send It - Canadian Snipers In Afghanistan" . Link 👇 or wherever you get your pods from. https://t.co/peTkiqJayP
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Interesting DT article re #RoyalNavy mine clearance capability. Mentions clearance divers who were a subject of one of my pods previously. 🎧 here https://t.co/GEypeYsYM5
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Podcast out tomorrow "Send It - Canadian Snipers In Afghanistan" with former Canadian infantryman Barry Nisbet. Wherever you get your pods from.
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While Poland gets on with building up its military the UK continues to dither. Pod out end of the month with Wilf Owen discusses his book Euclid's Army. Rejecting much conventional wisdom to challenge mainstream ideas about the future of land warfare & its conduct.
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On Sat I very much enjoyed being part of @I_W_M #Podcast #Festival chatting with @TheUCS473 Massed ranks of @ColdWarPod listeners ensured an almost capacity crowd despite the enticing prospect of @authordlewis with @historywjackson nearby talking about his latest #SAS book
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Approaching 100 episodes 💥 Thanks for all your support. To celebrate the next two have a focus on Afghanistan covering combat logistic patrols and Canadian snipers. Out 10 and 20 Nov.
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Yet another trial highlights the post–Good Friday appeasement to SF/PIRA: terrorists were pardoned or freed, while British soldiers still wait for a knock on the door. How is that fair? It reeks of two-tier justice. Mot holding my breath for a provo in the dock.
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Great day in London at the IWM podcast festival talking all things "stay behind" with Ian from @ColdWarPod . Also great to meet Nick from @IslandsAtWar podcast.
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Sometimes you have to get away from military history. What happened to all the tribes we had when I were a lad? One homogenised mass now. This was mine. What was yours?
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The man who knows the cost of everything and value of nothing. "Hundreds of veterans could be made homeless as government funding for key accommodation faces an uncertain future, Big Issue has learned." #VeteransLivesMatter
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Keir Starmer promised millions towards supporting veterans under threat of homelessness. Big Issue looks at how those promises worked out.
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Used to be accepted that if your country was attacked you would defend it. Now like much else this is seen as optional. A reversal of previous wars where the young bore the brunt. Remember that old poster "What if they threw a war & nobody came?"
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What a man. What a life. ‘It’s been a cesspit, really, my life’: war photographer Don McCullin on 19 of his greatest pictures | Photography | The Guardian
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At 90, McCullin has spent seven decades recording conflict and tragedy – while escaping snipers, mortar fire and capture. He reflects on pain, pride and regret
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Latest podcast out now. Wherever you get your podcasts from. #RUC #PSNI #UnitedNations #UN #Kosovo
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Inquiries must cut both ways. Denied legal aid too. "On November 21, 1974, two bombs exploded in the heart of Birmingham, at two pubs, the Mulberry Bush and the Tavern in the Town. Twenty-one people were killed, including Maxine, and 220 injured." Text/Photos - The Times.
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The next podcast out Thursday discusses a little known deployment of the RUC to Kosovo. https://t.co/K8xhhcFEG3
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The next podcast on the Unconventional Soldier looks at a little known deployment of the RUC to Kosovo. The 1990s saw the Balkans become the focal point of some of the most brutal conflicts in Euro…
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After decades out of print, A Shadow of Myself by Peter Flamm is being published in English for the first time. First published in 1926 it's a stark, haunting look at a WW1 soldier’s struggle to face the man he became after the war. Photos = D Telegraph
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Great episode recording tonight with author Wilf Owen and Neale Smiles discussing his book Euclid's Army. Right up Neale's strasse. We all gave a shout out to the excellent @thinkdefence on this episode. Real fanboy moment 🫡 Wilf's book out now. Podcast out soon.
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This scene in Death of Stalin never fails to make me laugh. A couple of SNCOs I served with used to enter the Mess bar just like this.
The Death of Stalin (2017) is a darkly hilarious political satire that somehow makes fear, paranoia, and history side-splitting. One of those underrated comedies most people missed.
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Parkinson interview with Shirley Maclaine on BBC4. Discussing politics, social issues, crime and drugs. How far the chat show has sunk to a vacuous nothingness.
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Everyone aboard.....
53 years ago, the British army shot dead innocent civilians in Derry. David Cameron, as Prime Minister, apologised for Bloody Sunday — yet shamefully, not one person has been prosecuted. Today’s not guilty verdict for Soldier F isn’t justice; it’s another betrayal of the
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