The Rules of the Game
The Rules of the Game Jutland and the British Naval Command Andrew Gordon, 1996 I’ve spent a very enjoyable few days reading this book. Andrew Gordon is both a serious…
UK AH-64E Apache Guardian
The UK has requested that Boeing upgrade 50 of it's Westland AH-64D Attack Helicopters to the AH-64E Guardian configuration costing $3 Billion sale
Fishing for Statistics
Defence Stats always produce fascinating, detailed and comprehensive work. Released this week is a compendium of fisheries protection related information; This is an annual publication that provides information on the…
Camper than a row of tents
Courtesy of The Royal Thai Navy. Fantastic drill, no seriously, I think we should get Dartmouth to change their syllabus :) httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDZUoR583Es Stop laughing, this is serious stuff.
SDSR 15 – Following Boldly On
One of the hallmarks of a good officer is the ability to plagiarise with confidence. To that end as we all eagerly honehone our 300 word SDSR 15 submissions I…
The Keys to a Shed – Smile for the Camera
It is hard not to chuckle at the essential 'smallness' of this. With a ribbon cutting ceremony (no, really) the Defence Infrastructure Organisation and QE official social media has announced…
SDSR 2015 in 200 Words
As we discussed in the Open Thread a week or so ago, the public consultation web form for the SDSR only allows submissions that are 1,500 characters long, about 200-300…
The F-35B is worth it, but
In the 7 years I have been dribbling my thoughts into Think Defence there are a few things on which I have been consistent; the ISO container is the greatest…