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Sceptical of Rumour Control, process and don’t think we Red Team anywhere near enough. Apparently woke’r than the average Defence commentator. (they/them)
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There should be Defence rule that once you reach Starred rank all visits to Units must be unannounced. Can you imagine the working hours saved not planning fake events and rehearsing said fake events; and imagine a Starred Officer seeing Units as close to normal as possible.
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@SkyNews
How did this level of analysis not get career halted at Junior Division! Finland is hard as nails, been detering Russia for decades outside NATO, considers resilience and defence a whole of society responsibility (unlike the UK). They are a Day 0 net gain to the Alliance.
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@BritishArmy
@ExCeLLondon
Great to see the Queen’s
@GurkhaEngineers
, alongside contractors, supporting military medics and the
@NHSuk
preparing
#NightingaleHospital
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Should there be some sort of statute of limitations on being a ‘retired senior officer’? I think once you’ve been retired longer than most soldiers served you should step down to moaning in the pub to your ‘mates’ like everyone else, not in the papers.
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@jeremycorbyn
Disappointing that what starts as a message of respect on Remembrance Sunday turns, so fast, into a party political broadcast... wrong day, wrong day.
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@ForcesNews
@RishiSunak
Coincidence, I’ve heard that
@RishiSunak
should brace himself for election results which “may not be popular” too.
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@sbattrawden
Surely
@metpoliceuk
speeches suggesting the hanging of medical personnel is some form of crime, surely?
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That feeling when your online accommodation application is rejected because some details don’t match JPA; so you check JPA, update the application, resubmit, sit back with a brew and wonder why, if the form could be checked against JPA, you had to submit the information at all.
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@TheRoyalButler
@mariotestino
In personal experience getting family members back after falling out is always best done by engaging in repeated TV interviews about how bad they are, then a documentary series and book, whilst they say noting bad about you in public. I don’t see how they might be reluctant.
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@AllisonPearson
Hi there, terribly middle class here and the Met have my support, frankly in a lose-lose situation they did very well today to enable Armistice ceremonies across London, the historic Lord Mayors Show and a huge protest concurrently. Pretty bloody impressive.
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Sometimes I wonder about whether the constant memes about poor leadership have a point; and then I see something like this and realise that the Army of today is 1000 times better at leadership than it once was, within televisual memory.
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@GBNEWS
@mrmarkdolan
When people hark back to the good ole’ days they drum up imagery of walking to the local pub where everyone knows everyone, picking up a loaf at the local baker, having a milkman drop round a bottle, events in the village hall, they literary invoke a return to 15 minute lives.
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Strolling down the high street of a Western city marvelling at how lucky we are; I’m not in fear of attack or oppression, not feeling especially surveilled (there is CCTV), and able to but almost anything I can afford. I know it’s frightfully British to run our selves down, but…
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So not JPA, which is a shame really, I’d have liked some independent thoughts on my Personal Objectives.
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Having just muted a former senior Naval officer turned reactionary commentator, who’s Armistice day main effort appears to be stoking division rather than respectfully reflecting on the nature of suffering in conflict; I’m already feeling better about life.
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@thinkdefence
We mustn’t assume that countries will supply us with platforms and ammunition. We must be able to supply our own.
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@Telegraph
@HamishDBG
Five tanks destroyed in a year of warfare, sounds like the Russians haven’t found the critical vulnerability at all. Casualty rates in an old fashioned war would be expected to be substantially higher, you might expect to loose five in a single assault.
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@NavyLookout
Of course they’re not, not a hope that we’re doing all the checks the Border Force do. It’s easy to clear queues if you’re not really scrutinising them. Like we’re unable to provide wholistic Ambulance cover, it’s not our job and we’re not better at it than those whose it is.
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A lot of people saying ‘when I joined the Army no one cared’ recently. Strange, when I joined the Army those suspected of being gay were investigated by the police, dishonourably discharged, ruining their future employment opportunities. We had stoped imprisoning them though.
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“To act as if the RN has failed for doing something that practically no one else can do is a uniquely British characteristic.”
The RN, thousands of miles from home, have repeatedly protected thousands of UK flagged passages, from an adversary 20 miles from their own home ports.
A very long Pinstripedline read on the Royal Navy, the Gulf and the Tyranny of Maritime Distance.
An attempt at balanced analysis on current events in the region.
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@DefenceHQPress
@BWallaceMP
Why do you keep using paywalled papers to get out critical messaging, instead of statements to the (recalled) House that all media outlets can amplify? Is this available to the vast majority of the country that don’t subscribe to the Telegraph?
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@16AirAssltBde
Good. The first time I’ve seen a British leader step up & denounce unprofessional behaviour mid-investigation, & the soldier’s Brigade Commander. Regardless of the rights and wrongs of the case, this is a good step forward in public ownership of errors. Thank you
@16AirAssltBde
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@StevenEdginton
@tjsigsworth
Navy maintains centuries of tradition by studying the maritime environment shocker.
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If you can do more with less, just think how much more you could do with the same, or even with more!
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The “you get paid for just doing your job” argument against the Wider Service Medal by those who on recent Ops got paid, additional Op Bonus’, extra leave & medals for doing our jobs, feels weak. I think those who bob about under the waves doing their job justify its issue alone.
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What the beards announcement has highlighted is how many units take block leave. I get why places running courses might, or those in the final throws of PDT, but I don’t understand why we still micro-manage leave windows in a way that discriminates against singlies.
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What I find disappointing in the debate about whether officers need more rooms than they need is how few are challenging the low budget motel standard bedsit design all soldiers and junior officers who happen to be single get.
@mod_dio
should be moving to a one bed flat baseline.
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I’m coming to the conclusion that most of the people who claim to ‘tell it how it is’ are just rude fools who often undermine their own argument by their approach. If we want a challenge culture we need to teach the typically challenged and prospective challengers how to do it.
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We need to learn to vote for policies not parties (no pun intended). It should be normal for adults to have voted for more than one party in their life because they had actually read manifestos and thought about them, rather than loyally following a coloured rosette. Jus’ sayin’.
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I know that in a total war they’ve got big numbers, but having seen their true quality and totting up their losses, are we still describing Russia as a peer adversary? I don’t want to underestimate the challenge they still pose, but does overplaying a threat risk poor choices?
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@edwardkeyjf
Do we need too? I find the biggest issue with UK individual weapons effectiveness is the lack of range time, not the capability of the weapon system.
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@tlloydjones
Or, Royal Navy spends less than a few missile firings a year on a small team to make sure it complies with its Public Sector Equality Duty, whilst also analysing morale and identifying retention issues that they can work on to improve the numbers of personnel staying in service.
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The British Army has been ‘taking a knee’ ever since they realised that being seen by the enemy when you’re stood still gets you killed;
@RSM_1SG
does a great job here, correcting people who want to be offended where no offence should exist! Nemo Me Impune Lacessit.
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@ClaudiaWebbe
Nope, this was taught in schools in the 90’s. There’s a lot to learn about the wrongs of our history, we should teach so much more, those who don’t learn and all that, but pretending there’s a conspiracy of silence isn’t particularly honest.
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@StevenEdginton
@tjsigsworth
Climate change is already changing the operating environment, opening up more artic routes, and changing air and maritime environments. Whether you want to mitigate climate change or not, the military will sure have to adapt to it, so this seems eminently sensible.
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When we wanted to send a bigger stratcom message, than some basic trainers, we moved armour from one continental European country to another. Do we thing Future Soldier might need a slight refresh.
Wczoraj
@3rdUKDivision
@TheRoyalWelsh
Battlegroup wyruszyła w trasę, aby wzmocnić Wzmocnioną Wysuniętą Obecność
#NATO
w Estonii, demonstrując zaangażowanie Wielkiej Brytanii na rzecz naszych przyjaciół i sojuszników.
#WeAreNATO
#StrongerTogether
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@OnthisdayRN
Surgeon Captain Jolly would be the first to tell you what a great battlefield medical leader he was; but he wouldn’t be wrong. When your doctors are awarded by the enemy you know the Geneva Conventions were upheld.
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@_HenryBolton
@SadiqKhan
I’d ‘ave thought as a former soldier you’d love food from around the world, a reminder of those deployments and the variety of damn good food that other people can make. Go on, have a falafel.
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@BWallaceMP
This statement seems in direct contradiction to the values and standards of the Department and Forces you serve. I understand politicians will politic, but this is ‘disapointing’. We’ve changed PM during bigger conflicts.
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@BritishArmy
I wonder if the College of Arms as the Army's heraldic adviser saw this before it was cut and paste from a sci-fi movie (I hope that’s where it’s from rather than the rather worrying similarities with the badge of the Selous Scouts). I think this’ll be regretted.
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Over the last year I’ve noticed a rise in Defence commentators, identifiable & anonymous personnel challenging journalists over factual errors or poorly judged articles. Many journalists still reacting defensively rather than accepting fair challenge as good for their profession.
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I know there’s no direct comparison, but it was 65 years before a decision to leave Germany was reached and it was done over 9 years. In the end communities didn’t want us to leave, not for security, but because we were a fixture of the community… [1/2]
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Lots of good news for the Royal Navy, RAF and Strategic Command today; I assume the Army plan was lost in the post... 👀
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Glad I uploaded my Protecting Personal Data mandatory online training to my Competencies last week, that’ll help, right…
The MOD has alerted personnel affected by a cyber-attack, which was reportedly carried out by China
Forces News has seen a letter and list of FAQs that were shared with personnel that explained those affected would be told as a precaution
Read more 👇
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@Tobias_Ellwood
Or link all the beaches to travel interchanges, park & ride schemes and local residential centres, so people don’t need to line their cars up immediately next to the beach, and use the space freed up to build mixed use, residential and attraction space rather than seas of tarmac.
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@Tobias_Ellwood
How about politicians that take Russian money? Should parties that cannot show they’re clean of adversaries money be removed from the ballot?
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“Work is something you do, not somewhere you go…” At last, a Minister actually backs their staff, making the point that his office works across time zones, around the globe, basically hybrid working since 1782, from Whitehall, Embassies, Residences and laptops in the desert.
'Would it not be a good idea to have more than four in 10 behind their desks in King Charles Street?'
@NickFerrariLBC
challenges
@JamesCleverly
on the number of Foreign Office staff working from home.
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@pinstripedline
Not only does this benefit trans personnel, but all personnel with unisex first names or from cultures where names aren’t gendered. It’s basically being polite. It’s never mandatory, just encouraged. Do it, don’t do it, but don’t get upset if others do.
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Always a bit centrist, but a right of centre teen. As I grow old, explore more, meet more people, understand not react to diversity, I find I grow ever more left of centre. As the 1st Earl of Beaconsfield, a Conservative politician, once wrote ‘travel teaches toleration.’
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With superficiality often masquerading as brevity is it time to ban page limited notes for senior officers? If it’s important enough for a senior to know, then they should dedicate time to understanding. I don’t buy they’re too busy, they have a staff, that their staff don’t.
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@pinstripedline
Son of an NCO who used Continuity of Education Allowance to subsidise private, stable, education while he moved around the world. First in family to go to University, first to commision. I’d be in Beale’s negative stats, but consider myself a product of positive social mobility.
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@charliebotha85
I’ve heard this said before, but if a CO can’t brief critical unit issues without prep then they shouldn’t be a CO; the same to lesser degrees all the way down the chain. There are also formal routes to send up critical issues whenever you need rather than waiting for the visit.
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A suggestion, not demand, to use pronouns in comms, something my bank uses every time they write to me, has exposed a special level of snowflakery amongst anti-snowflakers. No doubt using pronouns we use all the time’ll slow bayonet charges most of them have never conducted.
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When I was in training it was all threes. Three sections in a platoon, three platoons in a company, three companies in a battalion, three task-org’ed battalions in a brigade, three brigades in a division… when did we move to cramming more and more under each level of command?
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A must read for anyone in a leadership position in the Armed Forces:
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@NavyLookout
Exercising her right to freedom of navigation on route from one place to another. Good stuff. We’ll shadow no doubt but being a professional maritime nation won’t pretend to bomb her, force her off course or shout faux outrage at the world (hopefully).
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What has the ECHR done for us? Well, within my adult life the UK Government, both major parties, fought court cases to deny me the right to "private and family life”, barring me from certain jobs, and only backed down when European Court of Human Rights found against them…
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If only we’d appointed an experienced diplomat to our most significant embassy who could’ve warned us that Trump might be a little, um, unstable... Oh, we did, wonder what happened to him.
Sir Kim Darroch was the UK’s ambassador to the US. He predicted Trump’s presidency could “crash and burn” and “end in disgrace” for which he was made to leave his role. How right he was and how sorry those who didn’t back him should be.
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When people say that
#diversity
and
#inclusion
is ‘political correctness gone mad’, I often wonder if they’ve looked around. It’s just ‘Respect for Others’, and it’s more common in the
#ArmedForces
than you think.
#SaturdayShoutOut
to
@BritishArmy
Royal Gurkha Rifles deployed in
#Afghanistan
who took part in the ancient Hindu spring festival of Holi, also known as the 'Festival of Colours'.
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@iainoverton
It is an interesting comparison, sure the arts do deserve better pay, but a brand new Officer is responsible for the lives of normally 30 troops and the safety (or not) of the communities they’re operating in, under both political and global media scrutiny, so deserve their pay.
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What I don’t understand about recent debate about Service Families Accommodation allocated by need rather than rank, is how leaders, often sat in their over need SFA, have justified the significant gap in quality of life between SFA and Single Living Accommodation all this time.
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As well as criminal investigation and prosecution, any officers still serving from this Battalion or BATUK then, no matter high now need immediate scrutiny. Individuals in all walks of life commit sickening crimes, but there’s so much more wrong here.
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Retiring four months early following criticism; but I have never seen a modern military
#leader
genuinely receive such a send off (plenty staged affairs) from their team, international peers and on social media from firefighters & stations all over the country. Clearly respected.
#London
fire commissioner Dany Cotton received a guard of honour on her final day
@LondonFire
She has left her role four months early after criticisms of the service's response to the
#Grenfelltower
fire.
Get the latest top stories here:
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Hope
@ChiefofAirStaff
sees the video of his personnel supporting Birmingham Council and recognises the polite, professional response of young personnel in the face of passive-aggressive conspiracy theorists with cameras. Something for all MACA commanders to prepare personnel for.
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Serving & want to know what’s actually happening in the
#Army
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#DefenceConnect
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#Army
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Whilst our ambition is a deployable Division, the Army is large enough to sustain a deployable Corps. If the CGS post was tied to strategic logistics experience would we actually have a rapidly deployable Division and best effort deployable Corps?
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@splak_
Not at all, for the military weapons are a tool of work, not a status symbol or hobby (though individuals can also maintain them as a hobby), soldiers are also trained to high standards in weapon safety and hitting what they aim at, and tested regularly. The public, are not.
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@colinbrazierGBN
Yes, British troops did amazing and difficult work that day and up to VJ Day; but twelve other countries had troops on the beaches that day. It was a global effort to liberate Europe.
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Well this has rather taken off more than my posts do normally! Might have hit on something here.
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@ric_cole
I wonder how many checks just aren’t happening, how many people wanted by an agency or force, or whose right to enter needed a bit of scrutiny have just cruised past the booths untroubled.
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Former Household Cavalry AFV SCIMITAR Commander and family hear the latest IOC date for AJAX.
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@realDonaldTrump
Only time
#NATO
#Article5
(attack on one is an attack on all) was called, on behalf of USA; Denmark stepped up, deployed quality troops to Afghanistan, and sustained possibly the highest death rate per head of population of any contributing country. Frankly they deserve better.
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As we move to much greater remote working (and
@DefAcUK
seems to be driving forward); who’s tracking the lesson that those Officers who’ve prided themselves on ‘not using IT’ or ‘not getting Social Media’ are a risk to the new normal?
Message for DS posted on
@UKACSC
central page.
Find link to your individual syndicate VLE page.
- Develop the page to meet your needs.
- Then enrol students.
- Then we can make it live.
💥
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@haynesdeborah
@JSHeappey
Just surprise them. Phone all the Ministers at 2am and say somethings happened in an existing conflict, NATO is swinging into action and wants the UK bit of the plan activating; they’ll not know what their Department’s role is, panic, and learn an important lesson.
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The Armed Forces can be an effective tool for short-term aid to Civil Authorities; but since COVID it seems like they’re increasing seen as a way to plug holes in other Departments enduring tasks, with MPs pushing to deploy the Military almost weekly. Quite uneasy about it all.
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When most Senior and retired Senior Officers joined up you actually wore a suit and tie to get into a night club. So they were wearing their clubbing clothes to dinner in the Mess. How very dare they have such low standards compared to officers today who dress up.
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Busy day virtual Red Teaming. I thoroughly enjoy serving in an Army trying to innovate & empower; but am concerned that too many formal innovation & empowerment teams are missing opportunities to listen to those who’s career of rocking the boat is a factor in not being top third.
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Is there anything this former junior officer won’t volunteer the Armed Forces for! You’d’ve thought time in the MOD might have taught him a thing or two.
Tobias Ellwood MP is putting forward the idea that the British military could prevent school closures in the coming months by supporting COVID testing.
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I’m no close quarter combat expert, but… neither are they.
The utter disconnect between how cool they think they look and how they look like absolute clowns is A-MAZING.
(And what is with that weird twerking move?)
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The Navy and Air Force both have units more than capable of teaching low level light infantry skills to partner Armies; surely the Army’s USP is armoured formations, something only it can provide UK Defence, like the Navy big ships, and RAF, big or fast planes.
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@DeadlyDentist
Apart from handing it in to have a new one issued at every unit; no one has ever asked to see it. They are the very embodiment of wasted time, resources and good will.
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@ukhomeoffice
@SuellaBraverman
Fair play to the Home Office media team; the specific phrasing of the posts around this ‘illegal’ Bill is subtle comedy gold. It must be disheartening having to promote these things, they deserve this laugh.
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@RidgeOnSunday
@nadhimzahawi
Umm… no
@nadhimzahawi
. You need to get round the table and come to the compromise you’ll inevitably have to reach, before rather than after Christmas. It is the wrong lesson to learn from COVID that the Army can buy out Government’s failure to engage.
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…I think politicians and strategic level military and diplomatic leaders must be ready at the start of a deployment stabilising a region to stay until we’re a fixture of the community. Withdrawing when it’s still dodgy is unlikely to work when the adversary lives there. [2/2]
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@Tmgneff
To be fair they’ve got a point. No NATO General, including the mighty USA, has won a hot war of national survival against Russia. Arguably none have won any type of war at all. Doesn’t mean they can’t offer advice, but it needs some humility too.
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@MilitaryBanter
Unsure about integrity of whoever released this. His message seems fair, so it’s a bit unsettling to think an OCdt, soon to be trusted with classified documents and their personnel’s private data, might have betrayed reasonably expected privacy. Just not sure this is reasonable.
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I don’t know if this is true, but if even a little bit true it reminds me that the macho stereotypes beloved of some commentators have nothing to do with being an effective fighting force.
This is Captain Yuval, an infantry commander in the Nahal Brigade. On Saturday morning, as soon as she heard about the horrors taking place, she ran out of her home with her gun in her pajamas.
She reports there were dead bodies all over the road, and that at some point, a
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You’ve gotta hand it to the
@metpoliceuk
&
@CityPolice
. Today, in the same city, they enabled solemn remembrance ceremonies at the Cenotaph & other memorials, the fabulous Lord Mayor’s Show parade & a huge pro-Palestinian march, whilst containing those just out to start a fight.
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Found a quote in notes, not sure who: “We routinely let amateurs lead strategic communications. We would never put somebody like me in charge of an armoured brigade, but we take somebody in charge of an armoured brigade and say your next posting is to run Comms… WTF.” I like it.
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@thinkdefence
Whilst practically it’d be nice to have total control; I actually think our sales in the Middle East are morally dubious at best and something we need to ween ourselves off, even though that’s probably a pipe dream.
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@hthjones
To be honest I’ve no issue with this, apart from obvious littering. No damage done, and memorial is directly linked to liberation of Europe from fascism, a fundamentally polical act, as all wars are. No doubt people will be ‘disgusted’, faux outrage is fashionable at the moment.
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Getting real in the Baltic. Not related to this issue, but when was the last time the MOD planned or practiced the Defence of the UK?
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@DefenceHQ
Knowing Main Building; love the fact he’s totally been called into a side office like some unimportant bloke rather than given some grand historic room.
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