Balancing a civilian career at Brunel University London with being a #RoyalNavy #Reservist ‘Freedom is not free’
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Chris retweeted
🚨This is well worth downloading - it is a v useful guide about the kind of supplies you and your household might need to be self sufficient for 72 hours in the event of an emergency - from a flood or a power cut to war:
beready.campaign.gov.uk/wp-c…
Chris retweeted
My advice on all the noise around Russia at the moment would be keep calm and listen to the Brits. Why? ⬇️
1. We have the best intelligence agencies in the world.
2. Any major movement of troops or military equipment by an adversary is difficult to conceal.
3. The indicators and warnings usually build up over weeks.
However, I hope:
1. That the Government is taking readiness very seriously.
2. We are attempting to track elite drone Units and equipment. Little Green Men in 2014 will turn to Little Green Drones in 2026/27.
3. We are working in coordination with Joint Expeditionary Forces Allies to ensure our posture and potential response is aligned.
4. That any options have been briefed to the SofS and primed.
Chris retweeted
War may be coming. Are we psychologically ready? bbc.in/4yHhKUD
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Właśnie Pan premier oznajmił że w ocenie wywiadów w rosyjskim planie są uderzenia dronami i pociskami manewrującym na państwa wspierające Ukrainę w tym na Polskę.
Po pierwsze: nie da się jaśniej przekazać ostrzeżenia niż zrobił to premier.
Po drugie: jest to całkowicie zbieżne z ocenami zachodnich partnerów Polski oraz części ośrodków analitycznych. Przykładem dziś ISW wypuścił analizę dokładnie to przewidującą.
Po drzecie: takie plany Rosji nie są zaskoczeniem. Rosja wciąż, mimo horrendalnych strat nie jest w stanie wygrać z Ukrainą militarnie na polu walki. Jednocześnie Ukraina nie jest w stanie walczyć bez pomoc państw zachodnich. Dlatego Rosja chce sterroryzować, przestraszyć i zasiać ferment społeczny w krajach zachodu aby owe pod naciskiem opinii publicznej (wyborców) zerwały pomoc dla Ukrainy. Pomoc bez której Ukraińcy nie zdołają się dalej zwycięsko bronić.
Rosja po prostu chce zrobić to samo co islamiści w Madrycie w 2004 roku kiedy seria krwawych zamachów w metrze wpłynęła na wynik wyborów a nowy rząd wycofał Hiszpanów z Iraku.
Dla Rosji JEDYNYM progiem jest tutaj uruchomienie artykułu 5 i wojna pełnoskalowa z NATO. Dlatego będziemy mieć do czynienia z serią brutalnych aktów terroru w Polsce i krajach NATO oraz licznych "przypadkowych" awarii rakiet i dronów które zaczną spadać na Bałtyki, Polskę a może i inne kraje.
Odpowiedź powinna być jednoznaczna, silna, brutalna i pod parasolem atomowym Francji, ponieważ tylko takie działanie Kreml zrozumie.
Rosja już podpala fabryki w Polsce, wysyła celowo pociski manewrujące i drony oraz usiłowała spowodować katastrofę na kolei w której mogły zginąć setki Polaków. A będzie tyko gorzej.
I nie, deklaracja premiera to nie jest jakaś próba wywołania "efektu flagi" - za wcześnie przed wyborami - takie aluzje są absurdalne po protu patrząc na zachowania przedwyborcze.
To jest po protu do bólu jasno i przejrzyście sformułowane ostrzeżenie dla Polaków o tym co zmierza Rosja. Odpowiedź powinna być inna niż strach i dzielenie się. Bo dokładnie tego chce Kreml.
Czekają nas po prostu ciężkie czasy których winna będzie tylko i wyłącznie Rosja - kraj który najpierw wywołał napastniczą wojnę aby podbić Ukrainę a obecnie eskaluje konflikt w nadziei że terrorem wymusi zaprzestanie pomocy dla Ukrainy.
Nie miejcie złudzeń - na liście podbojów Kremla Polska jest nr.3 po Ukrainie i Bałtykach. Wspierając Kijów i stając w obronie Bałtyków tak naprawdę walczymy o Warszawę.
Chris retweeted
There are escalating warnings from Poland that Russia is preparing to widen its war against Ukraine, with "accidental" missile and drone strikes on NATO territory.
Such a move - Russia falsely claiming air strikes that hit NATO allies happened by accident - would be designed to create a dilemma around whether or not the alliance agrees to trigger an Article 5 fight back.
Either way, it would surely require the UK to be part of any response - collective or otherwise...
apnews.com/article/poland-ru…
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The First Sea Lord argued that Britain’s national survival had always depended on its Navy.
He said: “Churchill attached such significance to the Atlantic because he understood something important. The sea is not peripheral to Britain – it is existential.
“Sea power not only sustained us during the war. It arguably saved us. Lose the war at sea and you lose the war. That was the warning of Admiral Pound, the first sea lord of the day, and it remains true now.
“If we are to prevail in the Atlantic again, we must strengthen our warfighting readiness and rediscover what it means to be a maritime nation.”
telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/09…
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One for @CommonsDefence/@LordsIRCom to get stuck into. If the underpinning of Britain’s ability to resist coercion/aggression by any other state - its nuclear arsenal - needs extra in-year resources, that’s a grand-strategic problem for Cabinet to send to @hmtreasury’s door.
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With a swathe of @BritishArmy training cancelled (despite growing threats), @FTusa284 @DefenceEye_news reveals more about why: "Defence Eye has been told by several good sources that the overall in-year cut to the British Army’s budget is between £1.2-1.5bn – note that this is in-year, so cash has been cut with immediate effect."
Francis - who is always very well informed - says the money has been needed effectively to help bail out the Defence Nuclear programme yet again. He says GCAP costs are also a factor. You can read more here👇
Chris retweeted
Since its foundation in 1824 the bravery of Royal National Lifeboat Institution volunteers has saved more than 146,700 lives at sea.
Hundreds of those volunteers have died attempting to save others. They are the best of us.
Any person or organisation questioning their actions or loyalty to this country should be corrected and ostracised.
Anyone can drown, but no one should.
rnli.org/support-us
Chris retweeted
Captain Stuart Farquharson-Roberts obituary: Royal Navy officer thetimes.com/uk/obituaries/a…
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“Dutch use of one-way attack drones to destroy the ROYAL JAMES shows that major surface combatants are obsolete, that Britain is finished as a significant naval power, and that future maritime contests will be determined by uncrewed vessels”
- Some breathless pundit, 8 June 1672
Chris retweeted
Britain spent a decade choosing to be smaller in the world.
Right now the rules on communications, energy and trade are being rewritten. By China. By Russia. By countries that take their own security seriously. We need to be at that table. That's a choice we must make.
Strong countries get cheap energy. Weak countries pay whatever the strong ones decide.
Chris retweeted
We owe those who serve the UK the kit to do the job and the loyalty to stand by them when it's done. We are failing on both.
I’ve spent my whole time in government making that case. Number 10 will not listen, so I am resigning as Minister for the Armed Forces.
Letter to the PM below.🫡🫡🫡⬇️⬇️
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We've been conducting a major @NATO exercise in London this week - and no one above ground suspected a thing.
Hundreds of soldiers have been testing how they would run a major NATO command post, hidden deep beneath one of the busiest cities on earth.
Read more ⬇️
bit.ly/4dMwHfs
ALT A group of people stand in a dimly lit room illuminated by red lighting. Some individuals are in military uniforms, while others are in suits. They are gathered around a display table, looking intently at its surface which shows a digital map or screen. The setting seems formal and focused.
ALT A person in military uniform stands on a London Underground platform next to a Jubilee Line sign. Another person sits at a table with electronic equipment. The platform is well-lit.
ALT A group of people in business and military attire are gathered under red lighting. Two individuals in suits are attentively looking at a presentation screen.
Chris retweeted
Lieutenant Frank Bethune objected when he was told to hold the Spoil Bank (south of Ypres) on 13 March 1918. He said it was ‘useless death trap’ but he was overruled. So, his whole section volunteered to join him. He issued each man with the following order: 1/3
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Essential aid delivered from the sky.
Members of the Parachute Regiment parachute on to the remote island of Tristan da Cunha. They mark a drop zone then call in an air drop of essential medical supplies from the RAF. 1000s of miles away in the middle of the Atlantic…only they could do it…to the Parachute Regiment we salute you! 🫡🫡
That’s cool!
UK specialist paratroopers and military clinicians have carried out a daring parachute operation to deliver critical medical support to Tristan da Cunha – Britain’s most remote inhabited Overseas Territory – after a suspected case of Hantavirus was identified on the island.
ALT RAF A400 drops 6 x 16 air assault paras and medical supplies into British Overseas Territory from Ascension Island.
ALT RAF A400 drops 6 x 16 air assault paras and medical supplies into British Overseas Territory from Ascension Island.
ALT RAF A400 drops 6 x 16 air assault paras and medical supplies into British Overseas Territory from Ascension Island.
ALT RAF A400 drops 6 x 16 air assault paras and medical supplies into British Overseas Territory from Ascension Island.