Ex Cormorants

Work faster, drink harder, look smarter. Formerly @Bored_Cormorant. Now let loose on the world. Risus lenit tedium. Pronouns them / they.

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And Info Ops in a nutshell….

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@bored_cormorant Not just PJHQ. Is the day of the cormorant over? Does the original land sea air mascot no longer meet the needs of the Nation?

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War on Drugs? Pretty much lost that…

War on Terror? Prob best not to mention that one…

War against Climate Change? We’ll definitely win this one! We can definitely out-think and out-manoeuvre a global phenomenon…

[British Army 🇬🇧 @BritishArmy]

Electric vehicles, solar panels, portable power banks: three projects we are working on to become more sustainable in the fight against climate change.

Read more: https://t.co/KXJ9pqIEuE

#Sustainability

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At a tactical level we champion the Defence of Duffer’s Drift.

What should we champion in staff colleges as a modern day Duffer’s Drift at the Operational Level?

Entry Level - falklands (or Crimea)
Mid-level - Iraq invasion
Expert level - Afghanistan coalition.

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Ever wonder why we don’t get the proper MA that KCL offers its London students???

Still better than the Academic Poundshop (£45) MA Oxon/Cantab.

[James @SheltieDad79]

THIS.

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@MrSnaplegs At least it would quickly fail.

Expensively, but quickly.

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“To assist in the delivery of Ajax we have identified the need for a full time, dedicated Senior Responsible Owner who will preferably be able to see the project through to completion, or indeed advise if the project is incapable of being delivered.”

https://t.co/w1ktTPedcv

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Turns out the Big Reveal is going to be at DSEI according to @neilsexton659

https://t.co/iizca5DOoS

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“After Vietnam, a group of military officers, led by John Boyd, created a military reform movement, to change the way the Pentagon developed and used weapons, and they made enormous progress in restructuring key parts of the defense establishment.”

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Following our defeat, where is the UK military’s John Boyd and his band of determined reformers? Does IOpC have enough buy-in from OGDs to be credible? How do we fight as a whole? Each sS is too siloed right now.

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CDS on Marr: I accept responsibility for my mistakes in my time as CDS.

Marr: What were those mistakes?

CDS: Errrrrrrrr…. I could have asked for more resources?

Not the humble, authentic, responsible leadership I expect from our Senior Officer.

#Weak

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@TommyElias_ Most Cormorants will top out as OF5s. And we can be pretty noisy beasts.

Also, OF5s are pretty much unsackable, unless you commit a cardinal sin. OF6s+ are only one job away from compulsory retirement.

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@CarryStrategy I thought it was deadly accurate when Hd Bombers said ‘There will be some Comd changes aboard that boat when it get backs to shore’. The Navy does love a good sub capt sacking……

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Imagine having a pre-second world war tank in service in 1980?

(Warrior accepted into service in 1984? @thinkdefence)

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https://t.co/gCvvRnO9Xx

This article, connected with the one below, and a very different picture of Karzai / Abdullah2 and the Guardian article below emerges. Was CDS negotiating the withdrawal and takeover of the taliban? Was it a necessary evil?

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Read this article again, with the benefit of hindsight. Perhaps the MOD might now comment on what CDS’s role was……

https://t.co/4D5n5G2eV8

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Read this article again, with the benefit of hindsight. Perhaps the MOD might now comment on what CDS’s role was……

https://t.co/4D5n5G2eV8

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@JohnnyMercerUK https://t.co/B99zVyqvZe

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@BWallaceMP @pritipatel @DominicRaab @UKACSC @CommonsDefence
Please Home/Foreign/Defence Secretaries, confirm whether Afghan Students of ACSC are eligible for Cat 4 under ARAP. Many are still in Kabul, their willingness to support @DefAcUK could be a death sentence for them…

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@SO2Paperclips @dmorganowen @BWallaceMP @pritipatel @DominicRaab @UKACSC @CommonsDefence @DefAcUK Yes. Doubly yes.

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@BWallaceMP @pritipatel @DominicRaab @UKACSC @CommonsDefence
Please Home/Foreign/Defence Secretaries, confirm whether Afghan Students of ACSC are eligible for Cat 4 under ARAP. Many are still in Kabul, their willingness to support @DefAcUK could be a death sentence for them…

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@stickybloke @TomTugendhat It’s not explicit and obvious. I can’t determine whether this is hard-nosed foreign policy or just unplanned, unresponsive incompetence. ARAP needs clearer definition.