Ahh, so that’s the crime
A female sergeant has been demoted for pulling down a colleague’s trousers and licking her forehead as “banter”, a court-martial heard. Staff Sergeant Kayleigh Preston allegedly pulled down the...
View ArticleSo why won’t Egypt let them out?
Egypt has been caught in a dilemma for weeks about opening the Rafah crossing into Gaza: wanting to help the most seriously injured Palestinians leave, but adamantly refusing to contemplate a surge of...
View ArticleHMS Belfast is still there, no?
On Thursday night, the Royal British Legion said Poppy Day – when the country remembers those who made the ultimate sacrifice – should be a time for remembrance, not political protest. Pro-Palestine...
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The US government charged a former diplomat who served on the national security council in the 1990s with secretly serving as an agent of Cuba’s government for more than 40 years. Victor Manuel Rocha...
View ArticleNow, this is interesting
The military is shunning heat pumps and instead warming soldiers’ homes with cutting-edge electric boilers that cost less to run. Ministry of Defence (MoD) officials have been working on “Project...
View ArticleNow there’s some gongs
Major Michael Sadler MC MM Both the Military Medal and the Military Cross. Each means about the same thing. But, back then, one was for non-officers, one for officers. So, having both means having done...
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Seem to be forgetting what the Royal Navy is for. 1) Control the seas 2) Put troops ashore exactly where needed then come and take them off again when necessary. So: Two amphibious assault ships are to...
View ArticleThere’s a reason everyone shrugged this off
If the world’s powerful nations had not so brazenly shrugged off three-quarters of a million Palestinians being driven from their homes 76 years ago, accompanied by an estimated 15,000 suffering...
View ArticleNo, shoot them all
In a networked world where fighting methodologies, communications circuits and recognised pictures are shared and homogenised between allies in an instant, there is seemingly little consensus on how to...
View ArticleErr, yes…..
The Royal Navy is redeploying marines and sailors to become diversity and inclusion officers to enhance the “lived experience” of personnel amid ongoing recruitment challenges in manning its ships....
View ArticlePossibly untrue
In General Sanders’ words, “regular armies start wars; citizen armies win them”. The last time we were successfully invaded by force of arms it was the professional Normans who beat the Saxon Fyrd.The...
View ArticleThis might not work out so well
The British Army wants to relax security checks for recruits from overseas to boost diversity and inclusion, The Telegraph can reveal. Britain’s armed forces have consistently failed to hit recruitment...
View ArticleMissing the point
A government minister has defended the military’s “woke” policies, as he said the Armed Forces must reflect today’s society. Andrew Murrison, the minister for defence people and families, told MPs that...
View ArticleWhich fuckin’ idiot decided this?
But from next month, the MoD will change the rules across the Army, Navy and RAF so that for the first time houses are allocated on the basis of how many children a serviceman or woman has, not their...
View ArticleBehold the power of this blog!
A Ministry of Defence plan to change the way Army accommodation is allocated has been shelved amid a backlash from military wives, The Telegraph can reveal. Military wives? Tchah. It was this ‘ere blog...
View ArticleWorking with the Americans can be difficult
One of the UK’s most senior military figures in Afghanistan was sent home in disgrace after drinking champagne with colleagues, The Telegraph can reveal. Maj Gen Charlie Herbert OBE took up a post in...
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A senior Ukrainian army official who allegedly embezzled more than £1 million meant to buy rations for the military has been detained. The suspect, named locally as Oleksandr Kozlovsky, was working as...
View ArticleEven by Russian standards this is bad
Vladimir Putin said Russia had arrested all four gunmen responsible for the shooting that killed 133 people at a concert hall on the outskirts of Moscow, claiming that the perpetrators of one of the...
View ArticleDon’t be cretinous
On the one hand, too many young people are out of work. On the other, the Western world is gradually realising its armed forces are inadequate in the face of threats from Russia and other aggressive...
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Israel hits Iran with retaliatory strike Umm, not good, eh? The post Hmm first appeared on Tim Worstall.
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