Whatever your view when you are dealing with financial and political realities there is no other way to sustain an industrial base and have international freedoms to operate as you wish. As the threat grows and our traditional allies change focus we need to adapt or go under.

#UK often uses “eventual Russian aggression against #Ukraine” bogus slogan, when in fact it is 🇬🇧armed forces that aggressively advance towards 🇷🇺borders in Poland & Estonia, and 🇬🇧military chiefs openly aiming to achieve military presence in Arctic. 💬 https://t.co/gmUx6MBCHi

Ive noticed that those who want to go fast & take risk are the first to critique the same programmes and demand greater oversight when those risks materialise. Big complex programmes have big complex risks, pretending they dont is easy to say when you dont have to carry the risk

This the single most damaging myth on mil twitter. As an outsider brought in to critique expenditure I rarely found 'waste'. Its a myth created people who don't understand geo political realities & complexities. In time I will do a serious thread on what the real issues are

Week 3 and I am only the 3rd worst person on the line up this week and not yet reaching for the nurofen. It remains fairly humbling watching 9 years catch waves that I have to dodge like freight trains.

At over Mach 6 & ranges over 300km Hypersonica’s strike capability will challenge all the usual norms.Costing 80% less than big primes offerings & taking months not years to develop. Let’s hope that German/UK leadership sees this through to a Deep strike requirement 1/2

The worst unknown nightmare of a defender on a rampart during a siege is seeing a bucket of water tremble. The bucket of water was perhaps considered the guardian angel of the besieged. If the water in the bucket trembled above a rampart, it meant only one thing: the besiegers

Operational analysis is overwhelming conclusive that Parachuting into battle hasnt been a militarily viable option for years, everyone just gets killed. A bridge too far is a great film but you really shouldn't base a serious opinion on it.

Defence should be a priority but it isn't @ColinBrazierTV. We spend £245bn on social care/NHS/pensions for retirees whilst we only spent £62bn on defence. We spend less than £5bn on migrants. Having spent years in defence I can definitely say we are in a very difficult situation.

Been catching up with one of the authors of this piece about the battle to defend Kyiv in 2022, so thought I'd share it again. If you haven't read it, it's a phenomenal coverage of the battle which set the conditions for the rest of the war. https://t.co/lwlkPPnc7l

The Russians entered this war under the rather childish delusion that they were going to kill Ukrainians and nobody was going to kill them…

Good to see a company taking a stand against the penguin menace that plagues too many retail outlets

Meanwhile in california

Confused about why we are "giving away" Chagos? There is a very good reason unless you want the post brexit immigration increase to go from 4 fold to alot more.

@CliveWardauthor At Sandhurst while the then King Hussein of Jordan was an Officer Cadet and the Legendary RSM Lord was ASM:- “Colour Sergeant! Take that man’s name!” “OCdt Hussein, Sarnt Major” “OCdt Hussein, you’re a very lazy monarch! What are you?” “I’m a very lazy monarch, Sergeant Major”

And there you have it. #Epstein the KGB-backed blackmailer to #Thiel, the grey eminence of the global tech bros: ‘brexit, just the beginning’. And #Brexit voters actually thought it was about “getting their country back”…

Going forward i plan to use this account to expose malignants who attempt to mislead. We got great aircraft, a sustainable industrial base, strategic freedoms ( V dependencies on Brexit supporting Palentir), & wealth. Catherine would rather have us poor & reliant on the USA

Thiel celebrating with Epstein the success of the first major success (with Russia) in dismantling the EU.

Three years have passed since Alexander Matsievsky's death🥀🕯 Everyone remembers it. His last words before he died were, "Slava Ukraina!"🇺🇦 I haven't forgotten him…🕊

American tech company Ubiquiti is powering Russia’s frontline comms in Ukraine. A Ukrainian comms officer estimates that 80% of Russian radio bridges are made by Ubiquiti. The equipment has also been used in attacks against civilians. This is a clear violation of sanctions.