Defence/Security Journalist. Co-host of The Security Podcast. Editor of National Security News. Books: Bomb Hunters; Tales from the Special Forces Club.
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Joined November 2010
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It’s clear that Western militaries, including the US, believe drone technology is the future. Pentagon officials have requested almost $75 billion in funding to rapidly expand drone capabilities. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth has told the Army that every division should have drone capabilities by the end of the year. This is perfectly reasonable, given the changing realities of war. The problem comes in taking this logic to its dangerous conclusion.
The Center for Strategic and International Studies, a DC thinktank, has gone so far as to suggest substituting US troops for drones. “Imagine that instead of a 1,000-person battalion, there was a 250-person rotational battalion that had a mix of 500 [first-person view] drones and octocopters,” Benjamin Jensen, a director at the thinktank, told Defense News. Jensen suggests that the United States could free up thousands of troops stationed in Europe by replacing them with unmanned aerial vehicles. Such a strategy would be a mistake.
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Here's a new podcast where I talk about my time in #Russia, harassment by the FSB spy agency and being deported from the country in 2011. Also, why Putin launched his bloody full-scale war in #Ukraine and the latest from the frontline. Thanks @SeanRayment open.spotify.com/episode/1v4…
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The full interview:
“Moral, Ethical Failure”: Holocaust Scholar Omer Bartov on Israel’s Genocide in Gaza democracynow.org/2024/12/30/… via @democracynow @nermeendn @democracynow
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Another expert report finds Israel is committing genocide. The West yawns middleeasteye.net/opinion/ga…
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People - including @elonmusk - are choosing NOT to see this..
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One can see why the @netanyahu 🇮🇱 government profoundly dislikes the independent reporting of @haaretzcom, but it is a service in the long term interest of 🇮🇱. This piece is as uncomfortable as it is necessary. haaretz.com/opinion/editoria…
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Israel is losing its humanity in Gaza haaretz.com/opinion/editoria…
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“It is actually a war of annihilation of the entire Gaza Strip.” In a sobering interview, historian @bartov_omer tells me of his recent visit to Israel, his reaction to the IDF saying they only target military targets, and why his view on the question of genocide has now changed.
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Debunking Andrew Fox's report on Gaza Death Toll xitter.gq/i/broadcasts/1dRKZdQdn…
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Another sign, following the Bovaer nonsense, that we’re in danger of following the US down the anti-science woowoo path - because health disinformation is an extremely profitable business bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4gp…
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My article about the disgraced lawyer Phil Shiner who once threatened to punch me after I questioned the veracity of his claims about British soldiers committing atrocities in Iraq. It's just been republished on the Telegraph website: telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/10…
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Syria has fallen to the rebel forces. Huge geopolitical consequences to follow. Iran and Russia’s influence in the region seriously diminished. Supply routes to Hezbollah damaged. What happens to Russia’s naval and military bases? How will Israel respond. All unscripted.
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The Security Podcast | Podcast on Spotify. Yours truly on the second podcast for a discussion on the implications of a Trump administration. open.spotify.com/show/4mEXwS…
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Very privileged to talk with Sean Rayment and Linda van Tilburg, as part of their terrific new podcast, The Security Podcast. A moment to reflect on the Israel-Gaza conflict, and the sad futility of Israel’s war on Gaza. @SeanRayment @linvanti
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Former head of MI6, Sir Alex Younger,
"I travel around Europe.. Nobody mentions the UK, we've just made ourselves irrelevant"
"Brexit has marginalised us"
"Putin will have been absolutely delighted by our decision to leave the EU, as will have Xi Jinping.. When Xi looks at Europe, he's intent on peeling it away from the US.. This is a key objective for a whole set of reasons"
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President Zelensky says that 31,000 Ukrainian troops have died fighting the Russians. That figure is equivalent to around 40 per cent of the British Army. The British Army is too small.
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In the two years since President Putin launched his special military operation in Ukraine, 90% of the Russian troops sent to fight are now dead or wounded.
@SeanRayment reports
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Iran has sold around $1bn worth of weaponry to a variety of countries around the world in 2022/23, three times as much as the previous year.
@SeanRayment reports.
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Conservative MP Mike Freer writes for NSN on why he has left parliament. "Sadly, over the past 14 years, I’ve faced numerous serious threats to my safety...The arson attack at my office on Christmas Eve last year...represented the final straw."
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