An Unimportant Officer
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Sceptical of rumor control, process and don’t think we Red Team anywhere near enough. Apparently woke’r than the average defence commentator. (they/them)
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This dismaying regulation change will continue to drive women out of the military, harming readiness, retention, and recruitment.
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Army will look for false accusations, consider 'credibility' in misconduct cases
The Army made some changes to how it investigates misconduct, adding a new fact-finding process called a “credibility assessment.”
taskandpurpose.com
July 9, 2025 at 1:14 PM
This dismaying regulation change will continue to drive women out of the military, harming readiness, retention, and recruitment.
taskandpurpose.com/news/army-15...
taskandpurpose.com/news/army-15...
The vulnerability of the Straight of Hormuz, and movement of one-fifth of the world’s oil and gas, seems like reason enough to supercharge the energy transition, electrify heat and transport, strip generation of fossil fuels and mitigate its relevance.
June 23, 2025 at 7:04 AM
The vulnerability of the Straight of Hormuz, and movement of one-fifth of the world’s oil and gas, seems like reason enough to supercharge the energy transition, electrify heat and transport, strip generation of fossil fuels and mitigate its relevance.
Now that’s what I call a Birthday Parade! Flamboyant costumes, banging tunes, swords, plumes, horses, solid silver drums, colours flying…. The Household Division keepin’ it real for over 270 years.
June 14, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Now that’s what I call a Birthday Parade! Flamboyant costumes, banging tunes, swords, plumes, horses, solid silver drums, colours flying…. The Household Division keepin’ it real for over 270 years.
Nodded to in the Strategic Defence Review, but division is a national security risk. Yes there will always be disagreement on aims and approaches, but creating deliberate division, spreading disinformation or not taking down misinformation when identified is toxic to democracy…
June 9, 2025 at 10:38 AM
Nodded to in the Strategic Defence Review, but division is a national security risk. Yes there will always be disagreement on aims and approaches, but creating deliberate division, spreading disinformation or not taking down misinformation when identified is toxic to democracy…
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To be in public office right now is to constantly ask yourself: How do I make sure I'm standing on the right side of history?
There's a simple answer.
The wrong side of history will always tell you to be afraid - the right side of history will always expect you to be brave.
There's a simple answer.
The wrong side of history will always tell you to be afraid - the right side of history will always expect you to be brave.
June 8, 2025 at 10:23 PM
To be in public office right now is to constantly ask yourself: How do I make sure I'm standing on the right side of history?
There's a simple answer.
The wrong side of history will always tell you to be afraid - the right side of history will always expect you to be brave.
There's a simple answer.
The wrong side of history will always tell you to be afraid - the right side of history will always expect you to be brave.
I know the Conservatives need a story to separate them from Reform, but considering if it was not for the ECHR forcing change I would not have been able to serve my country for twenty years, I’ll not be voting for a party with leaving it in their manifesto.
June 6, 2025 at 10:04 AM
I know the Conservatives need a story to separate them from Reform, but considering if it was not for the ECHR forcing change I would not have been able to serve my country for twenty years, I’ll not be voting for a party with leaving it in their manifesto.
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Reactionaries hate universities because they create open-minded liberated people open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/...
May 30, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Reactionaries hate universities because they create open-minded liberated people open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/...
Anyone who thinks it wise to relax the pressure on Net Zero initiatives and incentives just hasn’t realised how far ahead China already is, from EVs to global lead in solar PV installation. Taking our foot off the metaphorical throttle would just hand our industry to others for a generation.
The Chinese car industry, whose latest opportunity to scare the living daylights out of Europe and the US came at the Auto Shanghai motor show. What did we learn?
The country is set to dominate globally with charging rates, ranges, luxury design, technology, and sheer volumes.
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The country is set to dominate globally with charging rates, ranges, luxury design, technology, and sheer volumes.
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Auto Shanghai 2025 Wasn’t Just a Car Show. It Was a Warning to the West
After poaching some of the best Western auto talent, China’s car industry is about to dominate globally with charging rates, ranges, luxury design, technology, and sheer volumes.
www.wired.com
May 28, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Anyone who thinks it wise to relax the pressure on Net Zero initiatives and incentives just hasn’t realised how far ahead China already is, from EVs to global lead in solar PV installation. Taking our foot off the metaphorical throttle would just hand our industry to others for a generation.
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China is the world’s largest single greenhouse gas emitter.
But now, for the first time, there’s been a shift: The country’s greenhouse gas emissions have actually fallen even as energy demand went up. Learn more: voxdotcom.visitlink.me/9HROrY
But now, for the first time, there’s been a shift: The country’s greenhouse gas emissions have actually fallen even as energy demand went up. Learn more: voxdotcom.visitlink.me/9HROrY
May 27, 2025 at 8:40 PM
China is the world’s largest single greenhouse gas emitter.
But now, for the first time, there’s been a shift: The country’s greenhouse gas emissions have actually fallen even as energy demand went up. Learn more: voxdotcom.visitlink.me/9HROrY
But now, for the first time, there’s been a shift: The country’s greenhouse gas emissions have actually fallen even as energy demand went up. Learn more: voxdotcom.visitlink.me/9HROrY
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While speaking to the West Point graduating class, Trump said, "No one wanted to join the military under Biden".
Everyone in that graduating class started their training during the Biden administration.
Donald Trump is an idiot.
Everyone in that graduating class started their training during the Biden administration.
Donald Trump is an idiot.
May 24, 2025 at 9:20 PM
While speaking to the West Point graduating class, Trump said, "No one wanted to join the military under Biden".
Everyone in that graduating class started their training during the Biden administration.
Donald Trump is an idiot.
Everyone in that graduating class started their training during the Biden administration.
Donald Trump is an idiot.
Lady Hale, formerly the Nation’s most senior Judge, makes an important point. In the rush to act, well meaning and disingenuous alike, people make overly cautious or overly bold changes based on a highly technical and limited judgement, both doing harm. After every ruling ask has anything changed.
Court ruling on legal definition of a woman ‘misinterpreted’, Lady Hale says
Court ruling on legal definition of a woman ‘misinterpreted’, Lady Hale says
Speaking at book festival in east Sussex, former supreme court president says reaction to judgment ‘very binary’
The supreme court’s ruling that the legal definition of a woman is based on biological sex “has been misinterpreted”, Lady Hale has said.
Speaking at the Charleston literary festival in east Sussex, the first female president of the supreme court said the last thing she wants now that she has retired “is to undermine the court and its authority by being critical of its decisions”. Continue reading...
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May 23, 2025 at 7:20 AM
Lady Hale, formerly the Nation’s most senior Judge, makes an important point. In the rush to act, well meaning and disingenuous alike, people make overly cautious or overly bold changes based on a highly technical and limited judgement, both doing harm. After every ruling ask has anything changed.
“You can’t handle the truth!”
Amazing that US Naval Academy graduates are teaming up with an Annapolis indie bookstore to enable Midshipmen access to books their library banned. Junior leaders who might’ve walked past these books on the shelves could end up owning copies.
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Amazing that US Naval Academy graduates are teaming up with an Annapolis indie bookstore to enable Midshipmen access to books their library banned. Junior leaders who might’ve walked past these books on the shelves could end up owning copies.
wtop.com/maryland/202...
‘Operation Caged Bird’ takes flight after Naval Academy removes hundreds of books from its library - WTOP News
A bookstore and a retired navy commander launch Operation Caged Bird — and no, it’s not a movie plot.
wtop.com
May 11, 2025 at 2:07 PM
“You can’t handle the truth!”
Amazing that US Naval Academy graduates are teaming up with an Annapolis indie bookstore to enable Midshipmen access to books their library banned. Junior leaders who might’ve walked past these books on the shelves could end up owning copies.
wtop.com/maryland/202...
Amazing that US Naval Academy graduates are teaming up with an Annapolis indie bookstore to enable Midshipmen access to books their library banned. Junior leaders who might’ve walked past these books on the shelves could end up owning copies.
wtop.com/maryland/202...
‘London’s magnetic appeal continues to draw a global audience, from students and entrepreneurs to tourists and corporate titans,’ One thing I’ve noticed recently is more of us running us down, but when someone actually compares us we’re still pretty great.
Europe’s best cities in 2025, revealed
One city steals the crown, yet again
www.timeout.com
May 11, 2025 at 10:05 AM
‘London’s magnetic appeal continues to draw a global audience, from students and entrepreneurs to tourists and corporate titans,’ One thing I’ve noticed recently is more of us running us down, but when someone actually compares us we’re still pretty great.
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"At first, our intelligence analysts didn’t fully understand the dynamics. We couldn’t figure out why women were now involved in this al Qaeda network of death." Women helped answer it. Which is to say, involving women saved American and Iraqi lives.
A Commander’s Case for Women, Peace, and Security
The program makes the military more effective. The secretary of defense thinks it’s “woke.”
www.thebulwark.com
May 2, 2025 at 11:00 PM
"At first, our intelligence analysts didn’t fully understand the dynamics. We couldn’t figure out why women were now involved in this al Qaeda network of death." Women helped answer it. Which is to say, involving women saved American and Iraqi lives.
Anyone throwing the TLA DEI about doesn’t understand how inclusive workplaces & services are regulated in Britain. I’d advise all new councillors to actually read the Equality Act, including their Public Sector Equality Duty, that they have no power to change, and sort the bins.
May 3, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Anyone throwing the TLA DEI about doesn’t understand how inclusive workplaces & services are regulated in Britain. I’d advise all new councillors to actually read the Equality Act, including their Public Sector Equality Duty, that they have no power to change, and sort the bins.
If those talking down the energy transition and Net Zero adaptation were Victorians there wouldn’t have been an Industrial Revolution. Some proper modern day Luddites talking with confidence on science and engineering they don’t understand.
April 29, 2025 at 9:26 PM
If those talking down the energy transition and Net Zero adaptation were Victorians there wouldn’t have been an Industrial Revolution. Some proper modern day Luddites talking with confidence on science and engineering they don’t understand.
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Senior officials say personnel cuts across the Defense Dept. will delay plans to hire at least 1,000 more civilians to help prevent sexual assault, suicides and behavior problems within the military.
But officials insist the programs aimed at addressing sexual misconduct so far aren’t affected:
But officials insist the programs aimed at addressing sexual misconduct so far aren’t affected:
Job cuts delay Pentagon plans to expand work to prevent sex assaults and suicides
www.stripes.com
April 28, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Senior officials say personnel cuts across the Defense Dept. will delay plans to hire at least 1,000 more civilians to help prevent sexual assault, suicides and behavior problems within the military.
But officials insist the programs aimed at addressing sexual misconduct so far aren’t affected:
But officials insist the programs aimed at addressing sexual misconduct so far aren’t affected:
Oh what now…
EXCLUSIVE: Two DOGE employees have access to a network used to transmit classified nuclear weapons data and a separate network used by the Department of Defense, sources tell NPR.
DOGE employees gain accounts on classified networks holding nuclear secrets
Two DOGE employees have access to a network used to transmit classified nuclear weapons data and a separate network used by the Department of Defense, sources tell NPR.
www.npr.org
April 28, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Oh what now…
When will @democrats.org start wearing blue MAGA hats, without irony? Made in America of course.
April 28, 2025 at 6:50 PM
When will @democrats.org start wearing blue MAGA hats, without irony? Made in America of course.
So the US DoD has abolished its internal offices for future gazing. Of course there are companies that could step in and do similar work for a fee, but it really seems the current administration wants to strip their own capabilities back to those of much less capable forces.
Hegseth abolished a very important planning office in the Pentagon, and it’s one that I have worked with in the past, the Office of Net Assessment. The ONA is a DoD internal think tank that plans up to 30 years in the future. Getting rid of this office severely weakens our future readiness!
April 28, 2025 at 4:43 AM
So the US DoD has abolished its internal offices for future gazing. Of course there are companies that could step in and do similar work for a fee, but it really seems the current administration wants to strip their own capabilities back to those of much less capable forces.
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All current academy leaders should read this. And most of them should be ashamed. Stand up for what is right. If someone tells you Maya Angelou is too whatever. Say no. It's not. Demand a direct order, signed, to remove each individual book. Don't become the face of compliance.
April 19, 2025 at 4:20 PM
All current academy leaders should read this. And most of them should be ashamed. Stand up for what is right. If someone tells you Maya Angelou is too whatever. Say no. It's not. Demand a direct order, signed, to remove each individual book. Don't become the face of compliance.
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So the Trump administration are saying that unless Europe accepts their plan to help Russia they'll...help Russia. If you're trying to get people to do what you want, it generally helps if your carrot is different from your stick.
April 18, 2025 at 9:48 AM
So the Trump administration are saying that unless Europe accepts their plan to help Russia they'll...help Russia. If you're trying to get people to do what you want, it generally helps if your carrot is different from your stick.
The kids are alright….
The case involves 12 students from six families who attend military-run schools in Virginia, Kentucky, Italy and Japan.
Students sue Defense Department over book bans in military schools
The case involves 12 students from six families who attend military-run schools in Virginia, Kentucky, Italy and Japan.
www.militarytimes.com
April 16, 2025 at 3:25 PM
The kids are alright….
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Donald Trump is dismantling the foundations of American science—and in turn jeopardizing the AI boom he purports to champion, writes Matteo Wong:
A Disaster for American Innovation
The Trump administration is jeopardizing the AI boom.
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April 12, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Donald Trump is dismantling the foundations of American science—and in turn jeopardizing the AI boom he purports to champion, writes Matteo Wong:
Undermining a subordinate’s ability to talk truth to power, something that’s difficult in even the most professional of cultures, isn’t a sign of credible leadership. I fear it will take the US military a generation to get over its undermining of command for the cult of personality.
US fires Greenland base commander after JD Vance visit
Col Susannah Meyers accused of ‘subverting’ Donald Trump’s agenda
www.ft.com
April 11, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Undermining a subordinate’s ability to talk truth to power, something that’s difficult in even the most professional of cultures, isn’t a sign of credible leadership. I fear it will take the US military a generation to get over its undermining of command for the cult of personality.