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@dcsandbrook I knew we were in trouble when @RoryStewartUK predicted a K win a week ago. Love him but his political radar is often faulty.

Your analysis was the pointy nail I never wanted.

Time for Europe to don big boy pants, or suffer the consequences.

Ukr - thoughts & prayers.

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@GaryLineker @RestIsFootball Which players were amazing in training but it never translated fully into matches?

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@PlanningShit @LutonTown Premier L****$$ now

Personally I like it

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@Jack_Watling @PatriciaMary I don’t get why the UK government feel the need to comment on this matter.

Statement: It’s between Ukr & US, we don’t have this munition. BTW let’s all pull to get Ukr superior fixed wing planes.

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@afneil Churchill was prime minister until Apr 1955. Austria 🇦🇹 gained full independence in May 1955.

I think you could give him a bit of credit

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@Cookie2148 If our competitive edge is not mass, not equipment but our cognitive edge (CGS)

Why are we only investing a maximum of 17 days of education into our OR cohort who make up the bulk of our organisation?

Talent is primarily made not born, you need to create it

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@jelena3121 I always thought Bielefeld was perfectly fine. Never understood why the Germans were so down on it.

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@allan_mallinson It’s kinda his job.

The fact that there is precious little else to laud, isn’t his fault.

Keep sending it @ArmyBasing, if you could move us back to Germany 🇩🇪 on the quiet, extra large kudos points.

We know you want to…

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@edwardkeyjf You don’t give Ukrainians: 30 AS90, 14 CR2, thousands of NLAWS and everything in between and you’re at peace with Russia.

So you’re at war, it’s just the nature of the war that’s a bit hazy. Primarily Proxy but…

Tobias…well, he’s well intentioned I’m sure.

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@kingsbury_ollie What do you think on planning guidance for force ratios in doctrine?

Particularly the Urban figures. Are they misleading?

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@antbruceking @RUSI_org @wavellroom Kharkiv, Kherson, Bakhmut

One was flanked, the other protracted and anti-climatic in the close. The third bloody but not strategically vital.

Is it the wider ground and context which determines how the urban will be contested?

If so is there a model to understand this?

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@UKDefJournal Anything to do with money. Whether it’s pissing about doing expenses, writing business cases for everything, never using a GPC or slowing projects to a crawl because of funding ‘even though we have loads of money’- the boss.

It utterly kills any dynamism in the Org

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@MugfordSimon I understand that was one of the main positives for making Boxer in the UK from the CEO’s perspective.

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@OkayStrategist Pseudo-intellectualism (irony), without that what else is left?

I did just chortle at a vision statement newly released. A perfect blend of inane and banal.

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@BernardGray4 @davidrlurie @marty_mcd It’s a weapon that caters for a troublesome minority - the left handed 🤚

Assuringly, the standard 🇬🇧 rifle is a god fearing right (eous) shoulder only affair. So finally looks like we might have a buyer.

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@FTusa284 @JohnHealey_MP @spellar @JohnnyMercerUK @ShadowDefence @RishiSunak @Jeremy_Hunt @CommonsDefence @commonslibrary @CommonsPAC @sylviapfeifer @MarkNicolDM @jeromestarkey @thinkdefence @BritishArmy @AdmTonyRadakin_ @DefenceSenseUK @ReutersAero @timhepher @NATO @nicholadrummond For the future

Brigade = Bde

Battlegroup = BG These are Combined Arms

Battalions = Bn | In the UK these are largely single capability units

I would recommend articulating the composition of the VJTF (L) Operational Establishment Table (OET), as this is where the detail is.

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@ChrisDa70443047 @david_perell Supply and Demand

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@thepagey Ben Stokes

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@edwardstrngr AJAX is an example of trying to make something exquisite and therefore making it too complicated.

I would argue it is encroaching into obsolescence b4 it’s seen a battlefield.

The best combined arms platforms should be SIMPLE and easily adapted and/or replaced.

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@RALee85 Lt General Sir Francis Tuker DSO

Not 💯 relevant but a reminder of the evolution of Tank and anti-tank weapons.

The Ukr and Rus have access to profoundly different anti-tank weapon systems, which might also explain Ukr success not just tactics.