@tanktales
Once a soldier. ND. I post about: * Israel/Palestine. * The Balkans. * Iraq. * Edges of empires in Europe. * The First & Second World Wars. * Tanks. * WMD. * Mental Health, Moral Injury, Neurodivergence. * The current state of the British military.
Framing the First World War explores how perceptions shaped military decisions. On Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/6lqHGPVUv7NS0ykwvb4Xgt
Learn more: https://kansaspress.ku.edu/9780700640560/
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From a man who knows the details:
"No quarter, no mercy for our enemies" is an admission of war crimes.
WTF
In shock news, the US Secretary of War doesn’t understand war.
I've just written to @newstatesman1913.bsky.social. This is only the 2nd letter that I have written to a national publication. The first was in December 1995 to @autocarofficial.bsky.social (sent by email while deployed in the Balkans). It was pretty frivolous but they very kindly published it.
Toda and shukran @gershonbaskin.bsky.social
Yes. As @mrjamesob.bsky.social was saying on air a couple of days ago, it's all about cruelty (he may have used a slightly different word but the meaning was very similar).
I am in Bath. One of the best weather forecasts for me is to look towards @brunelsbridge.bsky.social. If I can't see it I am probably going to get rained on pretty soon.
Otter armoured car crossing a bailey bridge surrounded by troops and wrecked buildings.
Tories arguing that Churchill should be on banknotes rather than Otters, because of WW2, are showing their ignorance.
Here's a photo of an Otter participating in the fighting in Italy. I don't see Churchill in this photo.
Happy Friday comrades.
Shame can be a destructive emotion, but this is what a culture without shame looks like.
And it's consistently rewarded and indulged.
Liar liar liar.
This man is SACEUR. That’s not a post/person to be ignored.
Gen. Grynkewich: "What I've observed over the course of studying air power in history is that any time you attack a civilian population, you usually end up finding that it just hardens their resolve."
Bugger.
What did Dr Murrison MP do about female body armour when he was an MOD Minister?
Absolutely nothing!
Incredible self-own from the US president here, suggesting he's unable to keep his streets safe, even in comparison to the streets of a country he is presently bombing.
Waltz is the US's Ambassador to the UN..........
Can anyone explain to me why SWR tells me that a "Seat reservation is mandatory for this journey" when:
a. Seat reservations are no mandatory (thus making their statement a lie).
b. Seats cannot be reserved (thus proving by having that warning statement that they are incompetent).
Who thinks Mandy gives a damn about anyone other than Mandy?
The BBC is clearly following its own (wrong!) advice from 20 years ago.
www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/theedi...
Shout!
Yes, I know that there are much more important things going on, but the thing that is really annoying me right now are the people (journos and presenters and commentators) who keep saying Straits of Hormooooze and Hizbullah. Please please will someone have a word with them.
I will have to re-read it this evening.
I have written about him. Have you read Farewell Campo 12?
Nav Altered Find Out?
I know that Wiltshire and Dorset are next door to Somerset, and I also know that when it comes to Peers there are probably more important issues to deal with, but as a start I think that all the Dukes (30) and Earls (189!) and Marquesses (34) must have to live in the place that is in their title.
There was a moment (it was brief but it was there) back in 2019 (ish) that I thought Tugboat Tom was a secret LD. It didn't take him long to get that thought permanently out of my head.
Is that an example of FAFO?
