Some thoughts on the revelations about Lavender and other AI systems: theconversation.com/gaza-war-israe… via The Conversation

No, cat!

You mustn’t withdraw, you must attack! Infantry 101

They’re marshaling you to favorable terrain & it’s only a matter of time before you encounter a blocking unit

Achieve local superiority through mobility & intensity of fires

Divide their forces & break through cat!

The 'defence vs fiscal rules' issue was best summed up by Duff Cooper in 1938, just before he resigned over Chamberlain's appeasement of Hitler... more here paulmasonnews.medium.com/uk-defence-spe…

And in a way that only helps Putin

Did a video looking at some of the strengths of Russia’s armed forces and how they’ve innovated over the past years

youtu.be/NOigviXwKCU?si…

Good.

Next stop kick the Tories out.

Keir Starmer commits to 2.5%/gdp defence spending - this is huge because HMG has this as an 'aspiration' - Labour now stronger on defence than the Tories 👏👏👏

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I had the pleasure of re-reading this article by the late Dave Johnson and it is absolutely remarkable how prescient he was about the direction of the war in Ukraine. Do yourself a favor and give it a read: warontherocks.com/2022/05/would-…

Great to be back in Blighty

Stopped by my local Waterstones and picked up a copy of this cracking looking work by ⁦Peter Apps⁩

Looking forward to getting stuck in

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18 months later

The rightness of your cause does not *necessarily* correlate to your strength or foretell your victory.

Grim

Very pleased to be publishing Mass Precision Strike: Designing UAV Complexes for Land Forces - co-authored with my colleague Justin Bronk at RUSI. rusi.org/explore-our-re…