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  There has been a general chortling in the commentariat over news that the Russians are now apparently transporting obsolete tanks to the Ukraine war zone. Following on from them...

  Putin criticised the UK's donation of 14 Challenger 2 tanks to Ukraine, specifically taking issue with the potential deployment of depleted uranium tank rounds, claiming that it was a...

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcQ5tV4uv2o Commenting on the election of Humza Yousaf as leader of the Scottish National Party (SNP) and also as Scotland’s First Minister, former party member and SNP junior defence...

  Wars are sometimes started on the flimsiest of excuses. The War of Jenkins’ Ear, for example, took place between 1739 and 1748 between Britain and the Spanish Empire. I...

  Poland announced that it is to send four of its MiG-29 Soviet-era fighter jets to Ukraine, with the hint that more may follow them. This has been replicated by...

  "Union Safe in Kate Forbes' Hands! There are barely two weeks to go before the competition to replace Nicola Sturgeon as leader of the SNP and Scotland's First Minister...

    You’ll all be familiar with those “how it started: how it’s going now” photograph posts on social media, usually signalling an abject mistake by some poor benighted soul...

    We are just short of a year to the day when Russia invaded Ukraine. We all know what happened next. The Russians were rebuffed at Kyiv and Kharkiv...

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"Nominations closed on Friday for the election of a new leader for the SNP following the resignation of Nicola Sturgeon. Whoever succeeds her will become leader of the party and...

  w/c 13th February 2023 ‘Planes For Ukraine Air superiority is a prerequisite for successful operations by manoeuvring armoured formations; without it they are very vulnerable to attack from above....

  The discovery of a high-flying Chinese observation balloon over the USA caused a few red faces in Washington last week. Eventually it was shot down by a F-22 Raptor...

  Conversations buzz around the prospect of renewed fighting in Ukraine in the next few weeks, or even days. With both sides having had the opportunity to – to a...

  https://youtu.be/kwkFAqjqXEg   Lt Col Stuart Crawford’s latest book Tank Commander (Hardback) is available now http://www.DefenceReview.UK @peoplemattertv @509298

  Continuing with the theme that the UK is not regarded as a first tier military nation any more in some circles, retired British army General Sir Richard Barrons has...

  The Americans were not too pleased this week when the news that a Chinese observation balloon was hovering over Montana became public. Why Montana in particular? Well, completely coincidentally...

  China's strategic expansion continues with alliance with Argentina! Lt Col Stuart Crawford’s latest book Tank Commander (Hardback) is available  now http://www.DefenceReview.UK @peoplemattertv @509298

   w/e 27th January 2023 Tensions In The South Atlantic Whilst the world’s attention has been focussed on Ukraine there are other simmering tensions elsewhere, no more so in the...

   w/e 27th January 2023 Again, with the focus of most western commentators on Ukraine, less attention is being paid to the ongoing tensions between neighbouring Central African countries Rwanda...

   w/e 27th January 2023 Whilst the world’s attention has been focussed on Ukraine there are other simmering tensions elsewhere, no more so in the South Atlantic. There are rumours...

  https://youtu.be/2Kr_zKm_ElE?t=387 Lt Col Stuart Crawford’s latest book Tank Commander (Hardback) is available for pre-order now http://www.DefenceReview.UK @peoplemattertv @509298

Germany, in the form of Chancellor Olaf Scholz, is making a bit of a fool of itself over its intransigence on letting its Leopard 2 tanks be sent to Ukraine....

Sticking with tanks at the moment, but this time with Russian ones, there is speculation that Russia is preparing to deploy its newest main battle tank (MBT), the T-14 Armata,...

Ukraine suffered a body blow this week when a civilian helicopter on its way to the front line near Bakhmut crashed in the outskirts of Kyiv, apparently killing all nine...

   w/c 23rd January 2023 Ukraine is doing the fighting for us. Chancellor Scholz needs to grow a pair and get on with it Philosophically, I don’t think we can...

The present British MBT, the Challenger 2, had its origins in the Chieftain Replacement programme of the 1980s, when I was a staff officer at the Headquarters of the Director...

https://youtu.be/tcVOtMja5Us Lt Col Stuart Crawford is a Defence Analyst and a former Army officer, author & broadcaster – sign up to his podcast at defencereview.uk  Have you signed up for the...

Have you heard Lt Col Stuart Crawford's latest podcast? " In war, you have to keep your troops safe Lt Col Stuart Crawford is a Defence Analyst and a former...

The current cold snap has caught the UK out once again, as it seems to do every winter, with widespread travel disruption, increased pressure on health services, and so on....

Lt Col Stuart Crawford is a Defence Analyst and a former Army officer, author & broadcaster – sign up to his podcast at defencereview.uk  Have you signed up for the Defence...

  We learned this week that Iran is now allegedly the biggest external supplier of arms to Russia as the latter continues to prosecute its illegal and unwarranted invasion of...

At the end of last month the UK’s prestigious military think tank, the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI), published a report titled “Preliminary Lessons in Conventional Warfighting from Russia’s Invasion...

Disturbing tales continue to come out of Ukraine about the systematic sexual abuse and rape of Ukrainian women and girls at the hands of the Russian invaders. The first reports...

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg told reporters that Russia was “failing on the battlefield” in Ukraine as he headed into a summit meeting of foreign ministers in Bucharest on Tuesday....

  UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak made an unannounced visit to Kyiv last Saturday to meet Ukraine’s President, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, in his first visit to the country since taking office....