Alexander Woolfson

Transatlantic security & sub-threshold warfare. Senior Research Fellow @RANDEurope, Defence Editor @TweetTheArticle. Visiting Professor @UNDEFArgentina.

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@TheRestHistory I just read that as “Jimmy Carr”, an even more unlikely opponent.

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@Edeaulx The lunch of champions

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@arthistorynews wonderful thread, thank you Bendor!

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@spyhistory @thetimes @wnbooks @NorthbankTalent Very well done! Looking forward to reading it.

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This is today’s best news…

[David McCloskey @mccloskeybooks]

Artemis Aphrodite Procter returns...The Seventh Floor drops TODAY

Order: https://t.co/WYysFGmgLD

It's an exploration of friendship in a faithless business - a tale of modern espionage and betrayal amid the hunt for a traitor at CIA. There is also alligator wrestling 1/

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@Cb20226 Fantastic, cannot wait to see it.

[Mark Urban @MarkUrban01]

This has gone viral on TikTok. The curator, Mark Murray-Flutter, is a great sport who I got to know while serving @Royal_Armouries board, so he was up for doing a Gen Z script. Credit 👏🏻

[Duncan Stone @DuncanCStone]

King Charles meets New Zealand women’s rugby union team @BlackFerns They asked for a hug, the King replies: “Why not!” #KingCharles #RoyalFamily
#blackferns #royalcameraman

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@AnnwieAnna @pol_LU @AtlanticCouncil @ACEurope @Marshall_Center @ACScowcroft @ISDP_Sweden @stenrynning @FrencLindley @SlawomirDebski @andrewmichta @edwardlucas Many congratulations!

[British Army 🇬🇧 @BritishArmy]

Congratulations on the gold medal @jacovangass!

We were cheering you all the way, you were outstanding!🫡

#ParalympicsGB

[RAF Lossiemouth @RAFLossiemouth]

The UK Typhoon Air Wing stands with
friends in the Armee de l’Air et de l’Espace and Escadron de Transformation Rafale 3/4 "Aquitaine", in
remembrance of their two colleagues who yesterday
slipped the surly bonds of earth. A la châsse! 🇫🇷🇬🇧

[Peter Ricketts @LordRickettsP]

The foreign policy debate ⁦@UKHouseofLords⁩ on 25/7 was interesting on the Defence Review, being led by our own Lord George Robertson. In his speech👇he noted it w’d be more difficult than the one he did as Defence Sec in 1998, given that../ https://t.co/Knn073h6Wv

[Alexander Woolfson @DasWoolf]

@seanpk @seanpk would you mind telling us the brand and dose of each that you take each day, as a starting point for research for individuals requirements?

[Patrick O. Cohrs @Pocohrs]

If you are interested in the big questions of war, peace and international order in the “long” 20th century, allow me to recommend the H-Diplo Roundtable on my new book THE NEW ATLANTIC ORDER.

https://t.co/NUHGR7Egt3

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@hoffman_bruce Buying!

[SHAPE - NATO Allied Command Operations @SHAPE_NATO]

Välkommen!

Sweden joins #NATO! 🇸🇪 🤝
Together, we strengthen security and cooperation. Welcome aboard!

[SSAFA @SSAFA]

We pay our respects today to Major Mike Sadler, the last surviving member of the original wartime SAS (Special Air Service), who has died aged 103. He is pictured here in the North African desert during #WW2.

Born in 1921, Sadler joined the Long-Range Desert Group, a reconnaissance unit based in the North African desert, in 1941 and subsequently entered the SAS (Special Air Service) to launch night-time raids in Libya. He became the unit's top navigator, fighting with the SAS in Italy and France before setting up the SAS intelligence unit.

In December 1941, Sadler was part of the first successful SAS raid - on Wadi Tamet airfield, where a team of six men destroyed 24 aircraft and a fuel dump.

On the night of 26 July 1942, Sadler, without headlights or a map, guided 18 jeeps filled with twin Vickers K machine guns along 70 miles of desert to within 200 feet of Sidi Haneish airfield. The group then opened fire as they drove between planes, wrecking at least 37 aircraft.

Sadler was also one of the officers to follow SAS founder, David Stirling, on the last SAS operation during the desert war in January 1943.

It involved crossing the Tunisian desert to meet the British-American 1st Army, but a German unit ambushed them. Stirling was captured and would spend the rest of the war as a POW in Colditz.

Sadler managed to escape with another SAS soldier and an Arabic-speaking Frenchman. He guided the group on a five-day, 100-mile trek without a map or food provisions to link up with the 1st Army.

On 7 August 1944, Sadler was dropped by parachute into the Loire as part of Operation Houndsworth to reach SAS squadrons behind the lines. He helped destroy fuel depots, encouraged local resistance, and prevented Panzer divisions from heading north.

Mike Sadler finished the war as a major. He has received the Military Cross, the Military Medal for his role in the Wadi Tamet and Sidi Haneish airfield SAS attacks, and was awarded the Légion d'Honneur, France’s highest award in 2018. Who Dares Wins.

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@hoyer_kat Hang on, whose birthday party?

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@holland_tom We need an after action report!

[Jeff Overs @JeffOvers]

Four seasons standing looking up from the same spot in Highgate Wood with a vintage #Nikon 8mm fisheye lens