'Listening to Johnson brought to mind the scene in 'The Lord of the Rings' when the evil spell possessing the good King Théoden is broken and he suddenly returns to himself—an accommodationist no more, revivified, ready to fight,' writes Susan Glasser newyorker.com/news/letter-fr…

Our strategic resilience is every bit as important as our frontline force. Warfighting is a whole of nation endeavour & our adversaries knowing that we can stay in the fight for as long as it takes is big deterrent against taking us on in the first place. telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/04/0…

The definitive narrative will be written by historians. They will discuss our choices. If we fail, they will be harsh. They will wonder why we believed in the fiction we told ourselves and chose to ignore the facts on the ground. They will call it a tragedy, not a victory. /🧵