Recruitment Group CEO and Military History writer...working on British Army doctrine and command in the Cold War and the Falklands conflict ๐ซ๐ฐ๐ฌ๐ง
Helen, I love your posts! These post-45 stories of our attempts to seek justice for war crimes against UK forces fascinate me, have you considered a book summarising them? There seem to be several accts of British military govt since 45, but not seen any that focus on this subject
@robert_lyman As a precocious 17 yr old I wrote to him at the Telegraph (he was at my school @Wimb_Coll ) on how to best study military history, he wrote me back a 2 page hand written letter, something I cherish to this day!
Am I the only one looking at social media, the World Cup, and the 1982 Falklands Conflict, and thinking that the world has lost its mind. Over 900 men never returned home to their families, 255 of them British.
@TheUCS473 Two comments, none of those disadvantages stops a youngster turning out to be a model soldier and secondly, remember the Army is the greatest achiever of social mobility in society, if it can work its magic on the most disadvantaged, itโs doing a great job
Scots Guardsmen photographed at Fitzroy after the Battle of Mount Tumbledown, one of the toughest battles of the Falklands War.
Respect to every one of them. ๐ฌ๐ง
@TheUCS473 Without for a second denying its current parlous state, history shows that with political will and sustained adequate funding, coupled to a strategy on spending it effectively, positive change can be achieved quickly...do not despair!
Remembering the fallen, Scots Guards in Blackpool today. Class of โ82 Tumbledown Mountain, Falkland Islands. ๐๐ปโโ๏ธ๐๐ปโโ๏ธ๐๐ปโโ๏ธ๐ฌ๐ง
Tonight 13/14 June, it will be exactly 44 years since the 2nd Battalion Scots Guards fought bravely through the night to take Tumbledown mountain in the final battle of the Falklands war.
WE WILL REMEMBER THEM - ๐ซก๐ฌ๐ง
@TheUCS473 ...and this is why the French don't use 'mainstream' coppers in riot training and have the CRS, with all the baggage they bring in terms of 'overzealousness'
@ModernNavy@thetimes Whatever your views on the QE class carriers, Sir Max Hastings wrote presciently in the Times in 2019...'Giant carriers are symbols of our national delusions'...I fear he was proved right
Great to see so many Falklands veterans on parade this morning to mark Remembrance Sunday. We will always be incredibly grateful to all those who sacrificed so much to liberate the Falkland Islands in 1982. #Falklands#WeWillRememberThem#RemembranceSunday ๐ซ๐ฐ๐ฌ๐ง
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The gallant men and my brothers in arms of the Scots Guards who paid the ultimate sacrifice on Tumbledown Mountain, Falklands 1982. ๐๐ปโโ๏ธ๐๐ปโโ๏ธ๐๐ปโโ๏ธ๐ฌ๐ง We will remember them.
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