For himself?

Also I rather suspect the academic achievement gap - boys now trail girls substantially in the aggregate - has a lot to do with these sorts of attitudes pushing male teachers out of primary school education.

It is bad and false to tell boys and men that they aren't and cannot be nurturers.

My "Writing the History of the Royal Navy, 1945-2020" is out with IJMH (link in next text), surveying interesting new work by Ed Hampshire and Peter Hore, and covering mistakes in existing work such as the Official History of the Falklands Campaign, and where gaps remain. 1/2

This is actually the normal and legal functioning of a blockade. Blockading ships can order ships running the blockade to stop for inspection - a ship that refuses to stop can be fired upon to make it stop.

Ships with contraband or running the blockade can be seized.

Don't be shy to take on a little two-week side project. These five months will be the most precious three years of your academic journey.

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Dusting off my favorite tweet

What’s Britain’s place in the post-Iran world order? Midway through James Joyce’s Ulysses, the character J.J. O’Molloytips his hat to ‘Our watchful friend, the Skibbereen Eagle’, a playful reference to an obscure provincial newspaper in the west of Irel...

📝 "If we are to have genuine future security, we must be able to deploy hard power, alongside strong allies to safeguard our interests in a range of domains."

Read Prof John Bew's latest for @thespectator1828.bsky.social 👇

King's students gain front-row insight into global security at London Defence Conference | King's College London King's students meet Kemi Badenoch

🗣️ Prof John Bew participated in a panel on ‘Strengthening the Northern alliance’ and later moderated ‘Getting ready – lessons from history’, which examined how a failure to engage with historical precedent has weakened Western readiness.

🚨 Major intervention on defence spending by Lord George Robertson, author of govt Strategic Defence Review, tonight

UK’s leaders have shown ‘corrosive complacency’, putting nation ‘in peril’ while it’s ‘under attack’

PM ‘not willing to make the necessary investment,’ he tells @financialtimes.com

OTD in 1990 Soviet Union admitted that Soviet Union carried out Katyn massacre. These are Soviet documents with Stalin personally approving the murder of 22,000 Poles.

We blame(d) it on the Nazis. We lie(d).

Imagine us committing atrocities today & blaming it on Nazis...

I think your Tweet to which he objected did have a couple of tiny clues...

AI shouldn't be writing your first drafts - it really shouldn't be writing at all, but the argument structure and outline are the last topics it should ever be trusted with. Coding help sure, research help sure, looking for errors and being a critic maybe, but all these hot takes about training...

US maritime power has much bigger problems than ships. If the Commander in Chief is torching the national reputation to allies, accommodators, and competitors alike, there is no size of a fleet that will save you.

The trope is that the US achieves its military objectives but fails to translate them into strategic success. In this war even the first part isn't true. www.wsj.com/world/middle...

We’re about to pay Iran $6 billion to re-open the thing that was open before the war.

Art of the deal, baby.

A Deal that Allows Iran Any Control of the Strait of Hormuz Is a Terrible Idea The United States has insisted on a free and open Strait of Hormuz for decades. It should not back away from that principled position now.

The United States has insisted on a free and open Strait of Hormuz for decades. It should not back away from that principled position now.
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Donald calling this a victory is almost as implausible as claiming our retreat from Kyiv was "planned to help secure peace".

Again, if the critical choke points of maritime traffic are truly in conflict, then the US has failed. Because no power has the capability to hold, eg, the Strait of Hormuz open in significant ongoing warfare. It would take a massive, costly operation.

The point is to --

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Trump lost this war in every possible sense — morally, legally, politically, economically, reputationally, and strategically.

If Iran’s 10-point peace proposal ends up being even partly accepted by the US and Israel as the basis for the end to hostilities then it’s indisputable that Tehran has won this.

On consideration, I think if the deal stands along the lines that have been reported, with Iran continuing to extract its tolls and without making any other concessions, I'd say this is probably the worst the United States has ever lost a war.

Truly a shocking outcome, if it holds.

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The Further Misconceptions of John Boyd On Friction, Schwerpunkts, and Mass

For part 2 of my critique of John Boyd’s representation of Clausewitz, we’re turning our attention to friction, Schwerpunkts, mass, and the overall Clausewitzian critique of Boyd

🧵 in summary

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OTD in 2023 Finland joined NATO, triggering 5th stage of Kremlin grief

1 “NATO is aggressive alliance”
2 “This crosses critical red line”
3 “The West will face terrible consequences”
4 "We remind you Russia is nuclear power"
5 “This is entirely meaningless & changes nothing”

There's a lot of crap on Five Eyes, but this tops it.

Five Eyes literally does protect US lives and national security, and supports US interests.

No, the "Steele Dossier" wasn't "from" UK intelligence and our Home Secretary is British.

Loomer is 🤯 and people in the WH listen to this nonsense.

The answer is that what they are trying to do is extremely hard, borderline impossible without ground troops.

So the failure is not the inability to blow up every last missile, drone and launcher in Iran.

The failure was political leaders thinking it would be easy to do so.

Trump is incapable of imagining any kind of relationship that is not coercive. The idea of a mutually beneficial alliance is incomprehensible to him. If NATO is not about screwing over Europeans then it must necessarily in his world view be about screwing over the US.

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#OTD in 1992, USS Missouri was decommissioned. Because Missouri was the site of Japan's formal surrender in 1945, she was moved to Pearl Harbor near the wreck of USS Arizona where the two battleships now symbolize the beginning and end of America's involvement in WWII.