Geopolitics, Intelligence & Strategy | @ArcanoPartners | @IEBusiness | Visiting Research Fellow @OxfordCCW | Member @IISS_org | Former @USMC

Joined October 2008
The Strait of Hormuz is not “open” - shipping has just moved from acute to chronic constipation. For the six reasons underpinning that diagnosis, contact me about receiving the latest edition of Arcano’s “Geopolitics in Five Minutes”. @arcanopartners #Geopolitics #Hormuz #IranMOU
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Intelligence Book of the Day: Warbody: A Marine Sniper and the Hidden Violence of Modern Warfare buff.ly/9LGgYF0
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Happy 250th Birthday, Marines. Semper Fidelis.
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Geopolitical Weekend Reading: A History of the World in 500 Maps buff.ly/R0bjk8w
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Intelligence Book of the Day: Code Name Puritan: Norman Holmes Pearson at the Nexus of Poetry, Espionage, and American Power buff.ly/fwe3Wuj
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Intelligence Book of the Day: Operation Biting: The 1942 Parachute Assault to Capture Hitler's Radar buff.ly/S5GnynZ
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Intelligence Book of the Day: Analog Superpowers buff.ly/lh1UTks
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Intelligence Book of the Day: Hiding Mengle amzn.to/4mWO6V6
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Intelligence Book of the Day: The Art Spy: The Extraordinary Untold Tale of WWII Resistance Hero Rose Valland―A True Account of Her Fight Against Art theft and Tyranny in WWII Paris buff.ly/GR4ud0i
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Geopolitical Weekend Reading: Emperor of the Seas: Kublai Khan and the Making of China buff.ly/IJuJof3
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The loss of the entire French Army’s manpower just to capture half of a city of 60,000 inhabitants. Terrifying.
Russian losses are staggering. For an entire year, russia has been trying to capture Pokrovsk — a Ukrainian city with a pre-war population of just 60,000. In the process, it has lost around 120,000 soldiers to take barely half of it. Anyone who still believes that russia is “winning” is living in a fantasy detached from reality.
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Every authoritarian expansion is a global challenge. I'm standing with Taiwan.
Met with the @AtlanticCouncil delegation, a leading U.S. think tank, led by former Lithuanian FM @GLandsbergis.China’s authoritarian expansion is a global challenge.Taiwan will keep working with transatlantic & like-minded partners to boost security & supply chain resilience.
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Holy shit, this is the moment @ACTBrigitte left Piers Morgan and Lowkey completely speechless, dropping truth bomb after truth bomb about Israel and Gaza. This is a must-watch.
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Pray for these warriors who still fighting for their freedom on the front lines 🙏
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The China bots are especially active recently, so here's a quick reminder that Russia's war machine would have collapsed long ago were it not for all the help Russia gets from China. Russia is really just China's proxy, which means it's really China that's waging war on Europe...
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Don't poke the bear, the bear might die
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Our cover this week “Europe should take heart and recognise its own strength. Its military budget is already four times larger than Russia’s; its economy is ten times larger. Far from shying away from a financial contest with the Kremlin, Europe should embrace it—and win the war”
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Hydration 101: Don’t turn your water pipes into rockets if you don’t want to stay thirsty.
97% of Gaza's water is unfit for human consumption. This week, I asked the Foreign Secretary how the UK will help to ensure that the Gaza peace plan includes measures to restore access to clean and plentiful water. There can be no just peace amidst thirst and squalor.
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