Posts Tagged ‘Navy’

Black Sea ’93

12Mar22

The last few weeks have had me reflecting a lot on my time in Russia and Ukraine almost 30y ago… When I joined the Royal Navy in ’89 we were definitely living in ‘interesting times’. The defence studies lecturers at Britannia Royal Naval College (BRNC) Dartmouth were tearing up talks they’d used for decades as […]


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A lack of discretion

23Apr13

There’s been a lot of Monday morning quarterbacking over last week’s shutdown of Boston during the pursuit of terror suspects. I have my own opinions about what went on, but don’t feel this is the time or place to get into that. The point of this post is to examine whether if many (or even […]


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