Here's my reply to the Jeremy Corbyn 'peace' op-ed in the The Guardian - the Labour left is at a crossroads just as in the 1930s... We're not going to stop totalitarian aggression with abstractions 👇🏽

My analysis of the new National Security Advisor, a ‘man of push and go’, and the challenges he will face.

Who is General Gwyn Jenkins? spectator.co.uk/article/who-is…

Yup! Because the West has no strategy with Uikraine

We’re modernising the British Army 🇬🇧’s heavy artillery capability.

A 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 collaboration will see a 52-calibre artillery system known as Mobile Fires Platform (MFP) mark a step change towards a deeper industrial and wider defence relationship between the two nations.

Does the Army hate sleep? Or do we just promote a lot of leaders who think sleep is for the weak? #PointofDeparture news.clearancejobs.com/2024/04/23/pun…

King's Centre for the Study of Intelligence (KCSI) is delighted to launch the brainchild/work of Yusuf Ali Ozkan : the world's most comprehensive and updated bibliography on intelligence. From history to the future, from the UK to outer space, this includes everything you will ever need: intelligence.streamlit.app

Iran and Israel’s escalation of their armed conflict is a reminder of what can happen when adversaries do not understand each other. Understanding our adversaries plummets as battle lines harden. Breaking this cycle is essential, writes Suzanne Raine. rusi.org/explore-our-re…

It's 2024. Surely we don't have to still explain what submarines are...

But yes, Iron Dome is certainly not the answer to the UKs AD gap

Almost a decade later, I've still not still really made up mind whether he's personally simple-minded, or only interested in persuading people who are equally simple-minded. The answer is probably both.

Leeeroyyyyyy Jenkinnnnssss!

Ed Arnold The Dissident Civil Servant Wouldn’t a new Trades Corps be a great way of improving the entire Defence estate while creating hundreds of new trade apprentices. Could be akin to US Corps of Engineers. Wouldn’t even have to be uniformed. Localised. Great offer to young people not wanting £70k uni debt.

Ed Arnold If these numbers are correct, the correct comparison might either be 'smallest since it lost the American War of Independence' or 'smallest since Napoleon was a toddler'. And even that ignores East India Company troops… daysackmedia.co.uk/resources/the-…

So People were not at the heart of DCPR23? You can easily spend the money on sorting out the appalling accommodation, infrastructure and pay related problems in the military, stemming the tide of leavers and therefore having an effective fighting force to go in the new kit.

One of my least liked phrases atm 'British Army smaller than since Napoleon' (should be Napoleonic wars...). totally meaningless and overused comparsion.

Led me to think, what unit size of the current army could have won Waterloo, only with organic assets?
A company?

The announcement that the UK will commit to spending 2.5% of GDP on defence by 2030 is welcome news for the Ministry of Defence, however, the 'government will need to agree how to fund its increased commitment to defence', writes Malcolm Chalmers.
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Finally. How many and when??

RUSI Ed Arnold Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung RUSI Thanks for referring to the paper 'UK-German Defence & Security Cooperation. A 2030 Roadmap for Enhanced Cooperation' RUSI! It can be downloaded here: ⤵
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Der britische Premier #RishiSunak ist heute beim #Bundeskanzler , um über die Zusammenarbeit in den Bereichen Verteidigung & Sicherheit zu sprechen. In einer FES-Analyse erklärt Ed Arnold, wie 🇩🇪 & 🇬🇧 ihre Zusammenarbeit für mehr Sicherheit in Europa vertiefen können.

To mark the 25th anniversary of Tony Blair's Chicago speech, I write for Engelsberg Ideas about its enduring legacy - for debates over interventionism, the US role in the world, the Iraq War, and the UK Labour Party's new doctrine of 'progressive realism': engelsbergideas.com/essays/tony-bl…

The name Putin appears nowhere in this article.