🚨Very pleased, proud and slightly surprised to announce that as of today, I am a columnist for the @Telegraph. Of all the things I didn't expect to be doing when I left the @RoyalNavy, this is up there. Quite cool though. https://t.co/PKcNix0kIP

Trafalgar 220🫡 Favourite Nelson anecdote; saying "thank God I have done my duty" having just smashed the combined fleet. Punchy, evocative and said whilst dying #strongPR Favourite anecdote about him; Collingwood's "I wish Nelson would stop signalling; we know what to do" in

Latest analysis article: Echoes of the Flower-class corvettes – Royal Navy’s plans to increase anti-submarine warfare mass https://t.co/sPwtKTdjZU By @TomHoyland

Introduction to the Tomahawk Cruise Missile Views my own, facts can be corrected. Following President Trump’s hint on TLAM for Ukraine I’ve put this together. 1/25 The Tomahawk Land Attack Missile (TLAM) stands as one of the most enduring and versatile weapons in modern

Prep reading for tomorrow's podcast: Here's Tom's piece on the Novorossiysk..

🗣️ Could The Novorossiysk simply be recharging, not retreating? Former Royal Navy commander @TomSharpe134 dives deep into the story for today's Battle Lines 👇 https://t.co/wRGA6lb9VO

“You’re not moving fast enough” “I’m not sure it’s legal” “You’re fired” https://t.co/vzCy9cdcqi

Enjoyed doing this podcast with @RolandOliphant: ➡️Is the Novorossiysk broken or not ➡️How does this reflect on the wider 🇷🇺 navy (if at all) ➡️Leadership and command at sea ➡️Why we need to invest more in drones 😱Why Hunt For Red October is rubbish... https://t.co/MhEEYYIIkm

We’ve all done this You’re on a call, your attention is not held You can’t mute, that’s obvious, but you also have to look at the camera With all this going on, can you type strategic messages?

This step was taken by the only Defense Secretary in American history to accidentally share details of a pending military strike with a journalist on an insecure Signal chat.

Newlands Corner Holes so deep you could fall in and die Couldn’t help marvel at the irony, use of cash - possibly even symbolism - of putting in speed bumps right next to them I particularly like the one hole that *was* repaired to accommodate the bump BZ all round 🙄

Accountability in the China Spy Scandal: Events, Mechanisms, and Implications for UK Governance This is my 1400L update, post PMQ’s and an attempt to create a single thread narrative (factual) of the events as they unfold. It has been written to be stand alone. Comments welcome.

Latest technical briefing article: The evolution of towed array sonar and its growing role in anti-submarine warfare https://t.co/D71g5qusAQ

I mean, she probably is but when I wrote this, it was not confirmed More generally: ➡️Loss of Tartus clearly hurting ➡️'Jetties for refuelling' not the same as 'bases for maintenance' ➡️Wait and see if Krasnodar goes the other way or is that it for🇷🇺submarines in the Med? /F

Thoughts on the surfaced🇷🇺submarine in the North Sea just now Fine line here. Neither being on the surface, or the tug being there are themselves indicators that this boat is in trouble. SG NATO openly mocking has added to the speculation that she is /1 https://t.co/2oKxlmyxvy

Quote and video from the exercise here: “Allied Special Operators learned to design, build and deploy uncrewed surface vessels (USVs) during exercise Bold Machina 25 in Den Helder, the Netherlands. Led by NATO’s Allied Special Operations Forces Command (SOFCOM), the exercise

Did this a couple of days ago for @TheSun Thoughts on the printable surface drones used in Ex Bold Machina 25 and more generally on the use of uncrewed systems at sea ➡️Direction of travel✅ ➡️A panacea❌ ➡️More investment required✅✅ https://t.co/8X5KnUEmSJ /1

At last... All the best to Rupert Pearce, announced today as the new NAD 'Innovating at wartime pace' - intrigued to see if that involves waiting for the Defence Investment Plan https://t.co/jNyWHlboii

Anyway, my thoughts on why we don’t need them here. There are some things they would be useful for but ultimately we need dispersed mass. This is the opposite of that. And besides, we can’t/won’t afford them to a degree where it becomes fantasy fleet planning. Battleships do lend

Say what you like about POTUS, he knows how to start a conversation😳Although when it comes to battleships, that door is already open… https://t.co/x5lvZ9pL64 /1

Carriers will need to be ‘utterly convinced’ before Red Sea return ▶️The ceasefire deal brokered between Israel and Hamas has raised hopes of a rerouting reversal ▶️But analysts admit there is a long way to go before vessels return en masse ▶️A return would present serious