Digital Sapper

32yrs reservist. Innovations & Digital SME. Urban, SubT, Digital & CNI. from RSWO to SO3. living the green dream.

[Digital Sapper @Digital_Sapper]

A 3D complex environment covering multiple levels, directions, materials & light conditions. #Subt is the #rubixcube of tactical spaces.
Living the #sapper dream 👍 @Proud_Sappers

[Mid-Career Army Officer @MidOfficer]

Something I'll never understand is that we live in a world where billionaires & trillionaires manipulate politics, culture & economy to get richer at the cost of humanity's health & prosperity - but instead of dealing with that - people just make up dumb conspiracy theories.

[Digital Sapper @Digital_Sapper]

Some pretty powerful words from Eric Ernest Munn (101): Don’t spend your entire life waiting to start living. I very much agree.
I had 9 extra years. I really count myself very lucky.

[Digital Sapper @Digital_Sapper]

Got news that two of my old team have both picked up to Sgt! To say i am proud of them is an understatement. They are two of the best soldiers i have ever had the pleasure to lead. ☺️

[Digital Sapper @Digital_Sapper]

@selhurstpaw1 @gkingsventures Absolutely! So much better 😎

[Digital Sapper @Digital_Sapper]

@DarthFreder @nicholadrummond If RAF, a disruption of the room service at nearby 5* hotels and the supply of pink gin might cripple operations..

[Voices of WW2 @VoicesofWW2]

Richard O'Connor might be the most underrated British general of WW2, and he came close to winning the desert war before Rommel ever showed up.

September 1940. Italy invades Egypt with an army of roughly 150,000 men. Britain's Western Desert Force has about 30,000. O'Connor commands it.

In December he launches Operation Compass. It was planned as a five-day raid. Instead his troops overrun the Italian camps at Sidi Barrani, then keep going. Bardia falls. Tobruk falls. In two months they push more than 500 miles across Libya.

The finale is Beda Fomm. The Italians are retreating along the coast road. O'Connor sends a small force straight across the open desert, through terrain nobody thought vehicles could handle, to get ahead of them and block the road. When the Italian columns arrive, the trap is already shut. After two days of fighting, the Italian 10th Army is finished.

His signal to headquarters read: "Fox killed in the open."

The final count: around 130,000 prisoners, about 400 tanks, and hundreds of guns captured. British losses were under 2,000 killed, wounded, and missing.

O'Connor wanted to push on to Tripoli and kick the Axis out of North Africa entirely. London said no. His best troops were pulled out and shipped to Greece, where the campaign went badly. Days after the Germans arrived in Libya, Rommel was on the offensive.

In April 1941, O'Connor was driving through the desert at night when his car ran straight into a German patrol. He spent the next two and a half years as a prisoner in Italy, locked in a castle outside Florence with other senior officers.

He never stopped trying to escape. After Italy surrendered in 1943, he got out, made his way through German-occupied territory, and reached Allied lines.

Within months he was commanding a corps in Normandy.

He was arguably the best British field commander of the early war, and he spent the years he could have done the most damage behind barbed wire.

[Digital Sapper @Digital_Sapper]

@DrPaulyDeSantis @nicholadrummond Trace it back 5 levels of cascade and you might actually just target a small telephone exchange or a road junction… sometimes the most tangential asset unlocks the puzzle

[Digital Sapper @Digital_Sapper]

@McmeekinIan @nicholadrummond Absolutely. People just don’t get the cross sector cascades.
That airbase can’t function without a dozen critical external dependencies. Its that small insignificant target that just collapses the whole thing.

[Simon Verdegem @SimonVerdegem]

After being recovered near St Julien in 2021, the remains of a British soldier have been identified through DNA analysis as Lance-Corporal Claude Stanley Dell of the Yorkshire Regiment.

Today he was laid to rest at Poelcapelle British Cemetery in the presence of his relatives.

[hw97karbine @hw97karbine]

French-made Canon de Montagne de 65mm Schneider Modèle 1906 "Napoleonchik" mountain guns in action with Israeli forces in 1948

The type was one of the first to incorporate the soft-recoil system where the barrel is launched forward before firing

[Digital Sapper @Digital_Sapper]

Data centres…. Could they be co-located with swimming pools, water facilities etc… so they heat water for free whilst cooling themselves?

[Digital Sapper @Digital_Sapper]

@SteveVanquish Indeed! Its a very technically & physically challenging environment

[Digital Sapper @Digital_Sapper]

Living, fighting and operating underground is an important part of future warfare.
We need to get so much better at this environment.

[Vivid.🇮🇱 @VividProwess]

BREAKING: The IDF just shared footage of underground terror tunnels hundreds of meters long in southern Lebanon with countless weapons belonging to Hezbollah.

This is just a few miles from Israeli communities.

This is why the IDF is fighting in Lebanon.

[Digital Sapper @Digital_Sapper]

@Longhouses1 @AnythingRorM Yeomanry i believe.
Currently the Scottish and North Irish, previously they were the Scottish Yeomanry.

[Digital Sapper @Digital_Sapper]

We knew this type of infrastructure was both critical & vulnerable but this part was something i had thought about but not focused on. Most interesting.

[Digital Sapper @Digital_Sapper]

@salltweets Superb effort! Well done 💪

[Digital Sapper @Digital_Sapper]

@thinkdefence Must be one in a museum somewhere

[Digital Sapper @Digital_Sapper]

#itsoknottobeok
Mental Health week is a gentle reminder to us all that we don’t have to suffer in silence.
If you need to talk over a brew, kettle is always on.

[Pardeep Kaur MBE British Army Chef @pardeep19922328]

Today is a reminder that not every battle is visible. Some people are smiling while silently fighting battles we know nothing about. Be kind, check on your loved ones, and remember that asking for help is a sign of strength, not weakness. You are not alone. #worldmentalhealthday #itsoknottobeok