Jonny Briggs

World Cup draw. Oh my Lord. Shambolic (and classic Numberwang).

Must read that. His 'From the City, From the Plough' is easily one of the best SWW novels.

Agile/ Agility - meaningless buzzword. Covers a multitude of sins.

Lethal/ Lethality - fixation on a single effect. Effective systems will deliver other desirable effects.

The German interior minister has inaugurated today a new unit of the federal police in charge of drone countermeasures.

www.bmi.bund.de/SharedDocs/p...

Lactose intolerance.

...that have then had additional info added or corrections made. They also contain sp and grammar errors less likely to make it into a more refined document. But yes, overall, beware.

Although (in a no doubt equally obtuse vein!) that varies a lot by time/place/unit or formation. I've seen some British ones that seem to have been written up within hours of the events described...1/2

‘Too little, too late’: damning report condemns UK’s Covid response Report on handling of pandemic contains stinging criticism of ‘toxic and chaotic’ culture inside Boris Johnson’s No 10

‘Too little, too late’: damning report condemns UK’s Covid response www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

No. I think it was personally important to Klimov, who'd lived through some of what is depicted as a kid, to have something positive and humane at the end of the horror. I think it works.

Not a great surprise to anyone who follows UK defence and security (but still depressing).

Easy fix though, we just need a series a stop lines...🤣

UK lacks plan to defend itself from invasion, MPs warn A highly critical report says the UK does not have the resources it needs to deal with complex military threats.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Time to sound the Valentine klaxon...

1936 and entirely designed to prevent an SA type situation occurring in the UK. The 'prohibition of political uniforms' bit is still extant.

YouTube video by donkeyscratch Wahlkampf 1932 (Letze Wahl)

Die Dokumentarfilmerin, Fotografin und Malerin Ella Bergmann-Michel wurde beim Dreh ihres Films in Frankfurt a. M. über nationalsozialistische Propaganda zur Reichstagswahl vom 6. November 1932 verhaftet. "Wahlkampf 1932 (Die letzte Wahl)" blieb ein Fragment und ihr letzter Film. 🧵

China intimidated UK university to ditch human rights research, documents show Sheffield Hallam University apologises to Professor Laura Murphy for restricting her academic freedom.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Just like #genAI in general, upscaling means hallucination. It doesn't operate in the realm of factual truth and historical authenticity, but rather produces probable, more or less plausible versions of what could have been. Its application to historical content is a form of destruction of knowledge

There is still time to enter the Midland History essay prize
£400 first prize and opportunity to publish in a peer reviewed journal
Closing date for entries 31 October 🎃
#phd #ecr #postgrad

Seen this? 2020. Thought pretty good. Brit/Imperial centric but coverage of DAK isn't bad.

Emergent Approaches to Combined Arms Manoeuvre in Ukraine Ukrainian forces have begun to develop novel approaches to combined arms manoeuvre, incorporating new capabilities, that bear scrutiny for NATO armies.

🚨🧵New RUSI Report, 'Emergent Approaches to Combined Arms Manoeuvre in Ukraine' by Jack Watling is out now!

Disturbing but essential reading.

Good find Jake.

Absolutely these points.

Today's the 959th anniversary of the Battle of Hastings. As viewers of King and Conqueror will know, William was able to surprise Harold by crossing the Channel in his hovercraft, and the English king was already exhausted, having recently seen off a Martian invasion.

A number between zero and eight but excluding two.

Agree, but I think part (most?) of the problem is that for the British, who faced the majority of the Big Cats in Normandy, the M4s 'role' was ill defined. It ended doing things it wasn't designed for.

Right up to the end of the war. Both MG Battalions and Motor Battalions could do this. Vickers MG was mainstay but they'd use anything. Seems to have had a big impact in Holland in late 44.

Excellent thread on some of the murky background to the Barrowman/ Mone story.

The Midlands erasure in this discourse troubles me.