Francis

Training specialist, father, elective home educator, avid tree-planter, grudging Twitter user.

[Francis @FJLOsborn]

@kunley_drukpa @bobpadron "Filipino space futurism". Alternative future unlocked. 👀🇵🇭

[Francis @FJLOsborn]

@JBDT60 https://t.co/cHBIC5lDoA

[Fr Lawrence Lew, O.P. @LawrenceOP]

Of your charity, please can you pray for a dear friend who has had a significant medical setback. If you're going to a shrine, please pray for him, and if you can kindly light a candle for this intention. I pray for healing, and for Our Lady of Guadalupe to surround him with her mantle of protection. Please join me in prayer. Thank you.

[Raise the Black @KTB_500]

The Combined Arms Rehearsal theater is dead.

If you’re still building one in 2025, you’re not training for LSCO—you’re planning your own funeral.

Picture it: 300 leaders in a hangar, 47 projectors, 12 hours of rock-drill perfection, brigade commander walking the miniature terrain like a god scripting every bound.
Meanwhile the enemy’s recon-strike complex just watched the whole thing from orbit: thermal bloom of the hangar, 300 cell phones pinging the same tower, every vehicle parked in neat rows outside for the satellite pass.

Day-1 of war: that rehearsal site is the first precision grid removed from the map.
Day-2: every CP you just rehearsed in place is gone.
Day-3: the brigade commander is either underground or dead, and nobody has comms because we never trained without them.

GWOT taught us that perfect synchronization wins.
LSCO teaches us that perfect synchronization is a targeting signature.

Your 96-hour Exchecl and sync mat -perfect scheme dies in the first 30 minutes when:
- Every emitter is a beacon
- Every static node is a target
- Every rehearsal of record becomes the enemy’s pre-planned fire plan

Mission Command isn’t a nice-to-have.
It is the only thing that survives when the sky is full of drones and the brigade commander’s voice is a memory.

Yet we still measure readiness by how pretty the rehearsal looks, not by how violently a company can attack when higher is burning and the net is black.

Stop building theaters.
Start building leaders who can fight with a map, a compass, and two sentences of intent.

Because in LSCO the rehearsal isn’t in a hangar.
It’s the enemy dropping 40 loitering munitions on the exact grid you spent three days perfecting.

Perfection is the enemy of survival.
Control is the fast lane to the grave.

Kill the GWOT rehearsal culture or it kills you.

#RehearsalTheaterIsCoffinNail #LSCO #MissionCommandOrExtinction #CPTargetingEndsControl

[Sia Kordestani @SiaKordestani]

I am Iranian, and I'm sick and tired of Western progressives implying that only Westerners are capable of colonialism, slavery and evil acts.

That type of thinking actively hurts non-Westerners seeking freedom under autocratic regimes.

[Francis @FJLOsborn]

@UKDefJournal @MtarfaL What a pity that shemagh/headovers/scrim/balaclavas are so expensive and unprecedented...

[Francis @FJLOsborn]

Spicy.

[Bear @BearJFK]

So, the French manage to produce their own nuclear warheads with nuclear material from their own processing plants, using their own designs, carried on their own designed and built SLBMs, launched from their own nuclear submarines made with steel produced in their own foundries.

AND

Produce another warhead type, loaded on a high supersonic missile of their own design and construction, carried on an aircraft of their own design and construction.

And their defence budget is actually slightly smaller than ours.

Make it make sense. @FTusa284 @Dominic2306

[Francis @FJLOsborn]

@Synod_va At least the comments have the "smell of the sheep". 👌🏻

[Jonathan Ware @ReassessHistory]

A British infantry division had 72 field guns in Normandy.

[Francis @FJLOsborn]

@RobertWeidner11 @holysmoke Valid sacraments not enough..?

[Francis @FJLOsborn]

@TypeForVictory @whyvert , any comment?

[Francis @FJLOsborn]

One to watch. The "older man" should be identified. He (and doubtless others) should be considered for the George Cross/George Medal/King's Gallantry Medal/King's Commendation for Bravery accordingly.

@BTP @CambsCops @cabinetofficeuk @RoyalFamily

[Olly Foster @Oliver_foster_]

There was blood on the top of countless chairs, coming from 2 of the guys who had been severely stabbed ahead of me.

A young girl was distraught as the attacker tried to stab her, but a hero of an older man got in the way taking a gash on his forehead

3/

[Francis @FJLOsborn]

@Synod_va @LaityFamilyLife @GrechMario @cardinal_jch @SrNatB @LMarinOSA @EcclesiaEU Questionable value for money, this.

Maybe just keep to core business?

[Francis @FJLOsborn]

@Synod_va Nobody wants this waffle.

[Francis @FJLOsborn]

@ForcesNews @bfbsSitrep We really letting this guy get away with this level of partisan deflection?

His pro-Zionist bias is well known.

[Francis @FJLOsborn]

@hoaxeye https://t.co/VIsf9wfTXd

2024 article indicates direction of travel in Australia.

https://t.co/yWX0OKCaYJ

2021 report shows early trials.

Overall, inconclusive but not far-fetched.

[Francis @FJLOsborn]

Insight

[Chatham House @ChathamHouse]

Keynote Address | Sir John Sawers, Head of MI6

Sir John Sawers, the former head of the MI6, joins @bronwenmaddox for the second keynote of our 2025 London Conference.

Follow the conference➡️ #CHLondon

Livestream here⬇️
https://t.co/Xvf9K39DkJ

[Francis @FJLOsborn]

@spikedonline @Mr_Andrew_Fox Spurious?

It's all over Telegram.

It's in their own words, and in their public policy.

To say "spurious" is chutzpah indeed. Trolling.

[Francis @FJLOsborn]

Tree nerd moment, but Thetford Forest definitely deserves a tag. Not only is it bigger than the tagged ones, it's bigger than Sherwood Forest was even in the time of Robin Hood.

Surely tag-worthy, @OrdnanceSurvey @ForestryEngland :-p

[Ordnance Survey @OrdnanceSurvey]

Forests are vital for enriching biodiversity. 🌲

This International Day of Forests, our GeoDataViz team have mapped forest cover using Land data from the OS National Geographic Database.

[Francis @FJLOsborn]

@TheHarrisSultan The US and UK have both explored equine-aided logistics in recent years.