@FennellJW Forgive, but was this not primarily Beatty in HMS Lion 🦁 (& Q turret near disaster) & the culture he endorsed in the BattleCruiser fleet as opposed to Jellicoe … agreeing with you entirely re Gordon’s Rules of the Game.
The party balloon people should voluntarily stop selling helium filled balloons for the next year. I know it's not their fault but we need the helium for medicine and computer chips.
Every day, ships leave this russian owned factory in Ireland straight for St Petersburg carrying thousands of tonnes of raw alumina for the war machine.
There’s corruption everywhere. Locals tell me politicians are bought by oligarchs.
Ireland is no longer militarily neutral.
@pinstripedline@pinstripedline, with your teaser photo there’s a heavy hint of ground based air defence, though as the pictured system is bloodhound, it’s arguably now integrated air & missile defence. There are a few options for your paper.
WE HAVE YOUR ATTENTION.
The Vickers Vildebeest will NOT be released back into public consciousness until this message reaches 3,000 RETWEETS.
No negotiations. No extensions.
Every second you hesitate… history fades further.
Tick. Tock.
@thinkdefence@DefenceAssoc@warmatters A culture that encourages performative activity above methodical progress.
Decision makers & processes that just does not value time.
@FTusa284 Would love ‘Droits de l’Homme’ as a reference to the 1st Republic, perhaps ‘Charlemagne’ as a French led pan-European reference. Suspect not ‘L’Orient’.