This image got me thinking of the WW2 Home Guard "Town Fighting" training school at Leith on the edge of Edinburgh. Maybe something we can bring back British Army in Scotland? 🤔 See 🧵 below on the Home Guard urban schools.

This. "they should have spent three months preparing humanitarian safe zones to move the population into before an all-out assault." Israel had an obligation to take all feasible measures to protect non-combatants. Did Hamas' atrocities successfully divert Israel from compliance?

Evolving fortifications from Finland. This has English subtitles. youtu.be/DkQORseXb8U?si…

"Urban defense demands the same intensity of training, resourcing, & doctrinal clarity as any offensive operation. NATO must learn not just how to seize cities, but how to hold them." My latest article with John Spencer & Jayson Geroux for Modern War Institute mwi.westpoint.edu/breaking-natos…

Urbanistas, while both sides in Gaza are engaged in InfoOps, which obscure and distort, we should probably try to dig a bit deeper rather than cynically looking away. There is too much advocacy masquerading as analysis. youtu.be/bQFozvlimbk?si…

1/2🇨🇳PLAGF QZX08 Individual Fire Training Ammunition System (likely a training system derivative from the 80mm DZJ08 rocket system). It uses a gasoline barrel as a launcher & gunpowder to eject explosive charges. The training ammunition has a sky-blue marking and is...

Patria's "Trackx" is an interesting bit of kit. Capacity of 2+10 in APC configuration, max weight of 15.5t and aimed at the lower-tier roles (i.e. supporting to a main IFV fleet akin to M113, similar to FFG G5). Looking forward to seeing more on this from #DSEi

1/13: I swear guys I'm not an online salesman for Arab miltech. But if I don't explain and present this stuff nobody will. The UAE has now emerged as another Arab state with a growing armaments industry. This one 👇 is made by Calidus and is called BARQ. Shown at IDEX 2025 in

Some errors in the article, but a useful collection of examples of shrouding.

1942. A model of a section of Glasgow, made by the Home Guard to allow unit-level training. Used to build on the physical training training at the Town Fighting Schools, especially for officers. Training doesn't have to be complicated. PT for the brain. 💪🧠 Img: Imperial War Museums

Urbanistas, this analysis of Russian urban tactics/doctrine is worth a look. google.com/url?sa=t&sourc…

Fantastic podcast on Northern Ireland training & adaptation from The Unconventional Soldier Podcast. 2 months(!) of urban training for an arty regiment getting ready to deploy 🫡. Today an infantry Coy is lucky to get a week or two per year. Nice nod to the deployed OA geeks (now a Dstl thing).

Die Funklenkpanzer fahren wieder?

Testing the "SETKOMET" (NET THROW) anti-drone device, which if I understood correctly was invented by the man in the video The net thrower is a muzzle attachment that turns the AK-74 and AK-12 into an effective point blank anti-drone weapon ✌️

Urbanistas, I'm not sure what we see here, other than a pretty bodgy projector, so I'll refrain from value judgement. It's probably relevant that 1940s Soviet doctrine emphasised flame to deny buildings away from objectives rather than simply as 'assault' tools.

This thread reminds us that the US & UK operationalised & exported Islamist extremism from its domestic origins (countering Soviet secular ideas like educating 🇦🇫 women), & US foreign policy saw it evolve into the current threat. This is rather more than 'allowing' the rise.

The start of the battle to defend in the Baltic States. 1 Rifles BGHQ executing their carefully crafted plan in the face of Russian threat forces. The value of combined arms wargaming to bring challenges, risks and opportunities to life. CO 1 RIFLES 7 (UK) Brigade 🇬🇧

Nice to see some internal debris and building damage. Klem will join me in approval.

I can not stress this enough! Having the ONLY SMOKE PLATOON LEFT IN THE US ARMY WE VALIDATE THIS EVERY ROTATION. ARTILLERY DELIVERED SMOKE IS NOT ENOUGH, YOU NEED THE HE/DPICM MORE for your guns. without obscuration breaching is a deadly game, smoke is very effective against

This thread illustrates the rigour problem on SM - perhaps in an unintended way? Sachs is accused of lying, but in supporting the speaker, rather than highlight one or more deliberate falsehoods, the accusation of repeating Russian talking points is assumed to be equivalent.