Early in his pro tennis career, Andre Agassi couldn’t beat a player named Boris Becker.

Agassi particularly struggled with Becker’s serve.

“His serve was something the game had never seen before,” Agassi explained.

Studying film of Becker, “I started to realize,” Agassi…

During the Brexit campaign, Cameron said there’d be war in Europe.

Everyone discounted it as fanciful but he was right. There is a war in Europe.

& this past 2 yrs we’ve wished it away.

It wasn’t over by Christmas.

I’ve become quite hawkish I realise. This thread explains why

Technically this is a great ad

Most European air forces who have chosen the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter have bought the A version, which is less expensive than the B which the UK has committed to. The F-35A is also notably less pricey than the Typhoon. If the UK wanted to acquire additional aircraft beyond 72…

Had the Cold War not ended in 1989, this would have been adopted. As Italy’s Centauro and Japan’s Type-16 assault guns show, the concept remains completely relevant today.

▶️I have modelled in some detail how the British Army ought to grow. Basically, to deliver a two division structure and make it deployable without relying on the Army Reserve, the Regular Army needs 83,000 personnel.
▶️If we want to raise a third division, it would need an…

This is great. Expect many more nations to develop similar C-UAS systems. It's the only viable course of action.

Loitering munitions technology is advancing as quickly as mobile phones used to with new products making older ones obsolete overnight. Anduril's Altius 600 and 700, for example, fly twice as far and two times longer than previous best in breed loitering munitions. But the real…

An interesting and provocative article by Sergio Miller. The clear imperative is an investment in C-UAS capabilities on a scale we could not have imagine two years ago.

Coming to an OPV or light frigate near you. Autonomous / Unmanned Underwater Vehicles (AUVs / UUVs) promise to do for navies what UAVs have done for armies. Performing an underwater hunter-killer role, they will drastically improve anti-submarine capabilities while costing less…

I've said it before, but I'll say it again. The UK doesn't have enough frigates for North Atlantic security. 12 Type 26s instead of 8 would be nice, it's still too few. A modern-day equivalent of the Flower Class Corvette is needed. Something larger than the OPVs but less…

One way to accelerate British Army modernisation is to generate four RAC regiments equipped with a Boxer cavalry variant to support Boxer infantry battalions. This would create a fully wheeled, self-deployable medium weight expeditionary force with a reduced logistical footprint.…

Love this.

England and France. Always close.

It will be a long time before I forgive David Cameron for what he did to the UK’s armed forces via the 2010 SDSR, but he is certainly starting to make up for it with his stance on US aid for Ukraine.

War is always terrible.

Innocent civilians always get killed.

Tragic mistakes are always made.

But these do not negate the justness of a war’s cause.

Israel must defeat Hamas & the UK must support Israel for as long as it takes.

I wrote this on 12th Oct in The Telegraph

This excellent article by Tom Sharpe in yesterday's Telegraph underlines the importance of having a dedicated ASW frigate. telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/04/0…

Type 26 is a world class frigate. It fulfils the Royal Navy’s most important mission: hunting enemy submarines. We need more of these before anything else.