Carl Newns

Former diplomat and senior defence official.

[Carl Newns @CarlNewns]

@JohnRentoul Churchill.

[Jay in Kyiv @JayinKyiv]

Almost everyone on the American side at this table is either directly pro-russian or has a history of promoting verbatim Kremlin narratives.

[Michael MacKay @mhmck]

When his aircraft landed at Halifax, Nova Scotia, President Zelenskyy was met by Prime Minister Mark Carney – the head of government of Canada.

When he landed at Miami, Florida, not a single U.S. official met Zelenskyy.

Canada is Ukraine's ally. The U.S. is Russia's proxy.

[Carl Newns @CarlNewns]

@createstreets You left off “in the name of all that is Holy?”

[Carl Newns @CarlNewns]

@OborneTweets Not sure about “senior”, Peter. But definitely interesting. Reminiscent of Tommy Tugboat’s (who is a good guy) time as David Richards’ representative on Earth.

[Carl Newns @CarlNewns]

@DailyMail Would it have been a lesser crime if the victim had not been “hardworking”?

[Carl Newns @CarlNewns]

@roddreher Michael Anton wrote a rather good book about men’s tailoring. I suspect he should have stayed at that level.

[Carl Newns @CarlNewns]

@historicfirearm Crikey. Is rollover prone no longer a thing?

[Carl Newns @CarlNewns]

@lewis_goodall @adamboultonTABB It’s amazing how funny these AI-generated fakes can be.

[Carl Newns @CarlNewns]

@bsarwary @saadmohseni FFS.

[Carl Newns @CarlNewns]

@michaeldweiss @JEyal_RUSI From the early 90s, NATO was indeed a solution looking for a problem. But now (or since 2008/9) it is again a solution to the problem of Russian imperialism.

[Carl Newns @CarlNewns]

@historicfirearm Extraordinary isn’t it? On a point of detail, they are probably closer to 70 years old, but who can imagine a design from 1855 being regarded as capable in 1935? As sign how much SA design has ossified.

[Carl Newns @CarlNewns]

@Itwitius @afneil 21

[Carl Newns @CarlNewns]

@haynesdeborah @JohnHealey_MP @BritishArmy AJAX is a cruiser tank. A concept proved invalid in 1940-41. Thirty years (FRES) to deliver an overweight, under-capable vehicle that also happens to make its crew ill. Bloody joke, that I got very tired of defending at MOD.

[Carl Newns @CarlNewns]

@UKDefJournal Repulse wasn’t a cruiser, George. She was a battlecruiser.

[Carl Newns @CarlNewns]

@JohnRentoul @theipaper There are three possible answers to number 5, any of which is correct.

[Carl Newns @CarlNewns]

@shashj @edwardlucas A company of airborne (ultra) light infantry? They’d last about 30 (heroic) minutes in a full-on fight v heavy forces. If you want to deter, demonstrate mass and scale and lethality.

[Carl Newns @CarlNewns]

@warmatters @thinkdefence You cannot legislate for or mitigate stupidity. But, heck, A Block, you expect a lot better.

[Carl Newns @CarlNewns]

Awful pictures. Still staggering that nearly 2 years into WW1, our General Melchetts were still using ineffective and wasteful tactics.

We tell ourselves that the big breakthrough was the tank,
but neglect the Ger MP18 armed stormtroopers and the Fr Chauchat teams.

[Edward Stringer @edwardstrngr65]

A post worth thinking on…