Strategic Defence Initiatives @StratDefIntUK
SDIUK England based. defence, security & veterans lawfare analysis & parliamentary lobbying U.K. England Joined October 2023-
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.@DefenceBrink @thinkdefence @StratDefIntUK Highlighting the contrast between the government’s rhetoric on defence and the diminished reality; meanwhile annual debt interest payments are over £100 Bn pa, 160% of the defence budget.
‘We are now in the most dangerous situation since the end of the Cold War.’ Defence and Security Analyst Simon Diggins believes Labour ‘can’t make up their minds’ about defence spending versus welfare, saying the balance is in the wrong place.
82 years ago, British, American and Allied pilots flew C-47 Dakotas over Normandy, dropping paratroopers behind enemy lines. Many didn't come home. This week I flew in one of those original Dakotas. Same airframe. Same bullet holes. A small way to pay tribute to the greatest generation and to the alliance that delivered them there. Freedom isn't free. It never was. And the country they came home to was one they'd built together, with people they'd never have met if the war hadn't thrown them in the same aircraft. That's the lesson worth passing on this D-Day. Together is how you get through it. That's still true.
"It's not for us, it's the chaps we left behind"🗣️ World War Two veterans Henry Rice and Ken Hay honour the legacy of their fallen comrades, as commemorative events begin to mark the anniversary of the D-Day 🇬🇧 Read the full story🔗⬇️ forcesnews.com/d-day/its-our-…
"Threats to this country are greater than I have known since the Cold War." Chief of the Defence Staff Sir Richard Knighton tells @JustinOnWeb
@cahlberg @RecordedFuture 21st century intelligence 👊
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@RecordedFuture is not neutral. We stand with Ukraine and will apply our full resources and capabilities to support them in their fight against Russia.
This is the best summary of the current geopolitical situation I have seen. Sir Alex Younger was head of MI6 between 2014 and 2020. Really worth watching.
Alex Younger, former head of MI6, has died at age 62. In 2020, he spoke to the FT about global threats — and why we still need ‘garage shed’ spycraft. Read the piece from our archive: ft.trib.al/qXHAUDd
@danny__kruger Let's have & continue that " realism " conversation @danny__kruger @titus_hopkins
@spectator Discussion please @titus_hopkins @danny__kruger
I heard a lovely anecdote today about Sir Alex Younger, the former head of MI6, who has died at the age of 62. Around the time the James Bond film “Spectre” was coming out, there was a private viewing at MI6’s HQ in Vauxhall with some of the production team and actors, including Ralph Fiennes. Alex Younger compared the event, which included an opportunity for members of the audience (who were largely real life spies) to quiz the actors and producers. One person asked Ralph Fiennes: Who was your favourite Bond? He gave an answer about how they were all good, but his favourite was Daniel Craig. The rest of the team said similar. Then Alex threw the question back to the person in the audience who had posed it, asking them who their favourite Bond was. But before this person had time to give an answer, someone else in the audience shouted out: “You, sir!” The individual (a former diplomat) who shared this story with me said it was one of so many examples of how admired, liked and respected Alex was by his colleagues. “He was one of the best chiefs”.
The late, great former head of MI6 Sir Alex Younger in his own words on Brexit
@peterjukes Epstein&Co @peterjukes
One year on... 👉 from the DEFENCE REVIEW's publication. 👉 Government has yet to confirm how our defence/ security upgrade will be funded. 👇My article in today's @theipaper
Labour's dither and delay is crippling Defence - they can't or won't publish their eternally delayed Defence Investment Plan. So today, we will vote to force them to.
Labour promised to publish their plan to fund our defence in Autumn last year. 9 months on, and there is still no sign of it. If they won’t act, we will vote to force Keir Starmer to publish the plan within one month.
On the first anniversary of the Strategic Defence Review, it was a pleasure to sit down with one of its lead authors, General Sir Richard Barrons, to discuss UK defence one year on.
One of our key amendments to the Armed Forces Bill today - on ECHR & overseas military deployments👇
Excl - Tories to push amendment that will allow soldiers to fight for Britain without ECHR lawfare threat, as they dare Labour MPs to vote against dailymail.com/news/article-1…
Epstein&Co Inner workings indeed. @peterjukes
Call Tony Blair and his foundation all you like, or criticise Gordon Brown, but neither of them seem to have inserted themselves into the inner workings of Starmer’s Government quite so extensively and insidiously as Peter Mandelson
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