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  Much as Germany dragged its heels over sending tanks to Ukraine before it was frog-marched into doing so by the force of diplomatic and public opinion, now the USA...

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

"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...

    https://youtu.be/XOw4SJ8gUmY   Lt Col Stuart Crawford’s latest book Tank Commander (Hardback) is available now http://www.DefenceReview.UK @peoplemattertv @509298

  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....

  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...

  The big news over the past few days has centred on President Zelensky’s visit to the UK. Although clearly weeks if not months in the planning, the general public...

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

  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...

  The UK is no longer a first tier military nation according to an anonymous US general. Apparently he has informed British Defence Secretary Ben Wallace that the UK military...

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   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   There has been much rejoicing mixed with a sense of relief that the USA and Germany have agreed to send main battle tanks (MBTs)...

   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...

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....

There has been a bit of a feeding frenzy this week over Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s announcement that Britain is to send “proper” tanks, self-propelled guns, and other armoured fighting...

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,...

   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...

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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...

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...

In the first significant action of 2023, carried out on New Year’s Day, Ukrainian forces attacked Russian troops in the occupied region of Donetsk using the HIMARS rocket system supplied...

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....

  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...

What’s going on behind the scenes with the recent news that Ukraine has attacked three airfields in mainland Russia? According to widespread media coverage the Russians have lost a couple...

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...

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....

There is much speculation from the usual suspects on what the next stage in the Russo-Ukraine war might be. With the Russians cleared out of the western bank of the...

  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....

  23rd November 2022 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...

  23rd November 2022 The RAF’s elite display squadron, the Red Arrows, has been back in the news again for all the wrong reasons. Back in August the team’s displays...

  23rd November 2022 I wrote a few months back on the tensions on the Kosovo-Serbia border. To recap, there were increased confrontations between ethic Serbs and Kosovans when the...

  The old adage has it that the first casualty of war is the truth, and I think we can see this being played out in the hoo-hah surrounding the...

  Just last week the world watched agog as Russian forces abandoned Kherson city and withdrew to the eastern bank of the Dnipro river, destroying the bridges behind them to...

  The meeting of the G20 political leaders on Bali in Indonesia has just ended, but the agenda in its final hours was very definitely hijacked by the missile strike...

  News just breaking tells us that two Russian missiles, presumably part of the barrage of 100 launched today against Ukraine, have landed in Poland and may have killed two...