purple book cover author M C Beaton on top in large cursive font Author of the Bestselling Agatha Raisin series in small orange block letters title Death of a Traitor in large white block font Lower left of cover: drawing of a silver thistle cap badge In medium block black font: A Hamish Macbeth - Murder Mystery - at the bottom: medium black font in cursive font "with R W Green at the lower right a brown dog is leaping up at three seagulls below the title.

M C #Beaton's #Hamish, the dedicated #Scotland rural cop is back in Death of a Traitor, now more noir written by RW Green, as a local busybody and blackmailer turns up dead, and the crime turns out to have 30 year old roots in Cold War espionage nationwide.
#mystery #cozy #book #booksky

Hamish is BACK!

Weighted, warming (yep warm him in the microwave)

He always sells out FAST!
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#HighlandCow #cows #heatedpouch #scentsy #hamish #shopping

Hello good people!
Happy #Caturday
Today I give you one of my favourite photos of Hamish.
#cats #tabby #catsofbluesky #Hamish

Look at this wee bastard’s pink tootsies. We kept him anyway. #Hamish

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#HAMISH #JAMES #HAWK
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Happy Caturday! It's Hamish the Handsome. 🥰

#cats #caturday #tabby #hamish

A fun moment at HETT Show, as Mark and #Hamish stopped by the RDP Health stand to say hello. Great to see so much energy and creativity across the exhibition floor! #HETT25

King Hamish.

Happy Monday x

#watercolour #HighlandCow #Hamish #watercolor #Cow #Character #painting #fun #art #paint #character #watercolourpainting #artist #inspiration

When you stop at a petrol station and Hamish is waiting to say “Hi”. However Hamish was being lazy and wouldn’t get up and come closer. It was also pouring at the time.

#scotland #Highlandcoo #hamish

Meet the contestants on LEGO MASTERS AUSTRALIA: GRANDMASTERS OF THE GALAXY – coming in June TV ...

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Saturday starts with lots of fog & drizzle on Martha's Vineyard, so foster girl Lena keeps busy inside with Hamish the Highland Cow! #dogsofbluesky #dogs #hamish #blueskydogs

Lily Rabe and Hamish Linklater on How ‘Ghosts’ Revival Leaves Them ‘Emptied Out and Ripped ...

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#News #Hamish #Linklater #Lily #Rabe

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Ginger cat on a wooden fence post.

#Hamish

Leading childrenswear brand Blade & Rose is launching Hamish Neutral matching adult and baby socks just in time for Mother’s Day! www.bladeandrose.co.uk Blade & Rose ... now live @ www.intouchrugby.com ! #mothersday #gifts #ad #bladeandrose #hamish

I strut right by with my tail in the air.

#Hamish

Hamish on the bru 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

I don’t blame him it’s Monday fuel for me!

Available here 👇🎉

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#hamish #irnbru #scotland #glasgow #edinburgh #mondaybru #art #prints #scottishartist

Look at this little bastard’s pink tootsies. We kept him anyway. #Hamish

been doing some doodles to loosen up my wrist and not be too intense with it while getting back into shape so prepare for a bunch
#hamish #illustration #OC #original #character #au #medieval #slayer #tits #joyfulattic

Our Good Friend ... <p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">Kimo Loka commented yesterday: </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2a2e2e;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><a href="https://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/2025/01/when-you-have-no-self-respect.html#comment-6624769350"><i></i></a></span></span></p><blockquote><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><a href="https://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/2025/01/when-you-have-no-self-respect.html#comment-6624769350"><i>They're definitely reading your blog, Andrei. Wikipedia removed the part about Hamish de Bretton-Gordon having an agricultural degree. He's now a tank warfare expert. LOL</i></a></span></blockquote><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2a2e2e;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">I went to Wiki to check this and lo and behold, Kimo Loka was right))) They <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamish_de_Bretton-Gordon">changed the WiKi page of this clown</a>, who is very much representative of the majority of the decomposing UK Army (and Navy) and of the overall acute crisis in the Western military educational system which now primarily brainwashes its graduates on military history and provides a basic tactical minimum without going into the engineering and fundamental physics and mathematical principles of warfare. I want to reiterate--<a href="https://press.armywarcollege.edu/parameters/vol54/iss2/10/">this is US Army's conclusion and that means that some of them are aware of the issue</a>. </span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2a2e2e;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUQo6qF35N703seIT8pcuWsMnErHqjOPUkh2rsjOv-8YZGbNlJ6mo4ptTz_Rwfc8IVmnO9BdZzUDuf3Zbi_0m-aL5nj0SYvQJtw-ksTms_1YoFUI2760ohoKorI7EJ6bDwn5fUaZcthsKd-JWq8DtBNmkN6PiAfjgQbWSWbyrjmqxW4fu_glyQMO64rOE/s2042/STEM-M-1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="2042" height="350" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUQo6qF35N703seIT8pcuWsMnErHqjOPUkh2rsjOv-8YZGbNlJ6mo4ptTz_Rwfc8IVmnO9BdZzUDuf3Zbi_0m-aL5nj0SYvQJtw-ksTms_1YoFUI2760ohoKorI7EJ6bDwn5fUaZcthsKd-JWq8DtBNmkN6PiAfjgQbWSWbyrjmqxW4fu_glyQMO64rOE/w557-h350/STEM-M-1.jpg" width="557"/></a></div><br/><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">One can memorize Clausewitz or Sun-Tzu's one-liners whatever one wants but to understand targeting, netcentricity and modern weapons, among many other things, officer today must have serious STEM background. The times of just getting some tribal knowledge and some technical minutiae behind one's belt is not enough. And this cannot be addressed anymore considering a DEI catastrophe in the American public school educational system with its utterly dumbed down math with physics and chemistry (going under the title of Science) curricula which prevents any serious level for the entrance into ROTC, let alone service academies which suffer from academic woes for decades. Do not expect much change any time soon. </span><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2a2e2e;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">And now about THEM reading (or rather lurking around my blog and videos) me--of course they do. Pardon my arrogance for a minute here, but I am well-known person in military and intel circles around the world. Many professionals, some of whom may not like me and what I have to say at all, also read me. My books are in the Pentagon's library. I am also read by journos, probably even from the MSM. In the end--their military "sources" are the same people who facilitated American geopolitical catastrophe due to own hubris, illiteracy and, frankly, utter lack of professionalism. They also hate me for me exposing who those in the shadows are--credentialed amateurs. As per those "experts" like this clown Hamis De Bretton-Woods--he is an easy target because he has no clue about the real war. It still gives me a guilty pleasure to humiliate these illiterate credentialed fanatics who never graduated beyond junior tactical officer with degree in agriculture. Would you allow a local plumber to perform an open-heart surgery on you? Of course not, and here lies your rather simple answer. As per "Russia Study" field--such does not exist in the West. </span></span></p> <div style="clear: both;"></div>

Our Good Friend ... Kimo Loka commented yesterday: They're definitely reading your blog, An...

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Our Good Friend ... <p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">Kimo Loka commented yesterday: </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2a2e2e;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><a href="https://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/2025/01/when-you-have-no-self-respect.html#comment-6624769350"><i></i></a></span></span></p><blockquote><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><a href="https://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/2025/01/when-you-have-no-self-respect.html#comment-6624769350"><i>They're definitely reading your blog, Andrei. Wikipedia removed the part about Hamish de Bretton-Gordon having an agricultural degree. He's now a tank warfare expert. LOL</i></a></span></blockquote><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2a2e2e;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">I went to Wiki to check this and lo and behold, Kimo Loka was right))) They <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamish_de_Bretton-Gordon">changed the WiKi page of this clown</a>, who is very much representative of the majority of the decomposing UK Army (and Navy) and of the overall acute crisis in the Western military educational system which now primarily brainwashes its graduates on military history and provides a basic tactical minimum without going into the engineering and fundamental physics and mathematical principles of warfare. I want to reiterate--<a href="https://press.armywarcollege.edu/parameters/vol54/iss2/10/">this is US Army's conclusion and that means that some of them are aware of the issue</a>. </span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2a2e2e;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUQo6qF35N703seIT8pcuWsMnErHqjOPUkh2rsjOv-8YZGbNlJ6mo4ptTz_Rwfc8IVmnO9BdZzUDuf3Zbi_0m-aL5nj0SYvQJtw-ksTms_1YoFUI2760ohoKorI7EJ6bDwn5fUaZcthsKd-JWq8DtBNmkN6PiAfjgQbWSWbyrjmqxW4fu_glyQMO64rOE/s2042/STEM-M-1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="2042" height="350" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUQo6qF35N703seIT8pcuWsMnErHqjOPUkh2rsjOv-8YZGbNlJ6mo4ptTz_Rwfc8IVmnO9BdZzUDuf3Zbi_0m-aL5nj0SYvQJtw-ksTms_1YoFUI2760ohoKorI7EJ6bDwn5fUaZcthsKd-JWq8DtBNmkN6PiAfjgQbWSWbyrjmqxW4fu_glyQMO64rOE/w557-h350/STEM-M-1.jpg" width="557"/></a></div><br/><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">One can memorize Clausewitz or Sun-Tzu's one-liners whatever one wants but to understand targeting, netcentricity and modern weapons, among many other things, officer today must have serious STEM background. The times of just getting some tribal knowledge and some technical minutiae behind one's belt is not enough. And this cannot be addressed anymore considering a DEI catastrophe in the American public school educational system with its utterly dumbed down math with physics and chemistry (going under the title of Science) curricula which prevents any serious level for the entrance into ROTC, let alone service academies which suffer from academic woes for decades. Do not expect much change any time soon. </span><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2a2e2e;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">And now about THEM reading (or rather lurking around my blog and videos) me--of course they do. Pardon my arrogance for a minute here, but I am well-known person in military and intel circles around the world. Many professionals, some of whom may not like me and what I have to say at all, also read me. My books are in the Pentagon's library. I am also read by journos, probably even from the MSM. In the end--their military "sources" are the same people who facilitated American geopolitical catastrophe due to own hubris, illiteracy and, frankly, utter lack of professionalism. They also hate me for me exposing who those in the shadows are--credentialed amateurs. As per those "experts" like this clown Hamis De Bretton-Woods--he is an easy target because he has no clue about the real war. It still gives me a guilty pleasure to humiliate these illiterate credentialed fanatics who never graduated beyond junior tactical officer with degree in agriculture. Would you allow a local plumber to perform an open-heart surgery on you? Of course not, and here lies your rather simple answer. As per "Russia Study" field--such does not exist in the West. </span></span></p> <div style="clear: both;"></div>

Our Good Friend ... Kimo Loka commented yesterday: They're definitely reading your blog, An...

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#Hamish #De #Bretton #-Gordon #Kimo #Loka #lurking. #reading #me #WiKi #page

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Our Good Friend ... <p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">Kimo Loka commented yesterday: </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2a2e2e;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><a href="https://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/2025/01/when-you-have-no-self-respect.html#comment-6624769350"><i></i></a></span></span></p><blockquote><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><a href="https://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/2025/01/when-you-have-no-self-respect.html#comment-6624769350"><i>They're definitely reading your blog, Andrei. Wikipedia removed the part about Hamish de Bretton-Gordon having an agricultural degree. He's now a tank warfare expert. LOL</i></a></span></blockquote><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2a2e2e;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">I went to Wiki to check this and lo and behold, Kimo Loka was right))) They <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamish_de_Bretton-Gordon">changed the WiKi page of this clown</a>, who is very much representative of the majority of the decomposing UK Army (and Navy) and of the overall acute crisis in the Western military educational system which now primarily brainwashes its graduates on military history and provides a basic tactical minimum without going into the engineering and fundamental physics and mathematical principles of warfare. I want to reiterate--<a href="https://press.armywarcollege.edu/parameters/vol54/iss2/10/">this is US Army's conclusion and that means that some of them are aware of the issue</a>. </span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2a2e2e;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUQo6qF35N703seIT8pcuWsMnErHqjOPUkh2rsjOv-8YZGbNlJ6mo4ptTz_Rwfc8IVmnO9BdZzUDuf3Zbi_0m-aL5nj0SYvQJtw-ksTms_1YoFUI2760ohoKorI7EJ6bDwn5fUaZcthsKd-JWq8DtBNmkN6PiAfjgQbWSWbyrjmqxW4fu_glyQMO64rOE/s2042/STEM-M-1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="2042" height="350" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUQo6qF35N703seIT8pcuWsMnErHqjOPUkh2rsjOv-8YZGbNlJ6mo4ptTz_Rwfc8IVmnO9BdZzUDuf3Zbi_0m-aL5nj0SYvQJtw-ksTms_1YoFUI2760ohoKorI7EJ6bDwn5fUaZcthsKd-JWq8DtBNmkN6PiAfjgQbWSWbyrjmqxW4fu_glyQMO64rOE/w557-h350/STEM-M-1.jpg" width="557"/></a></div><br/><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">One can memorize Clausewitz or Sun-Tzu's one-liners whatever one wants but to understand targeting, netcentricity and modern weapons, among many other things, officer today must have serious STEM background. The times of just getting some tribal knowledge and some technical minutiae behind one's belt is not enough. And this cannot be addressed anymore considering a DEI catastrophe in the American public school educational system with its utterly dumbed down math with physics and chemistry (going under the title of Science) curricula which prevents any serious level for the entrance into ROTC, let alone service academies which suffer from academic woes for decades. Do not expect much change any time soon. </span><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2a2e2e;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">And now about THEM reading (or rather lurking around my blog and videos) me--of course they do. Pardon my arrogance for a minute here, but I am well-known person in military and intel circles around the world. Many professionals, some of whom may not like me and what I have to say at all, also read me. My books are in the Pentagon's library. I am also read by journos, probably even from the MSM. In the end--their military "sources" are the same people who facilitated American geopolitical catastrophe due to own hubris, illiteracy and, frankly, utter lack of professionalism. They also hate me for me exposing who those in the shadows are--credentialed amateurs. As per those "experts" like this clown Hamis De Bretton-Woods--he is an easy target because he has no clue about the real war. It still gives me a guilty pleasure to humiliate these illiterate credentialed fanatics who never graduated beyond junior tactical officer with degree in agriculture. Would you allow a local plumber to perform an open-heart surgery on you? Of course not, and here lies your rather simple answer. As per "Russia Study" field--such does not exist in the West. </span></span></p> <div style="clear: both;"></div>

Our Good Friend ... Kimo Loka commented yesterday: They're definitely reading your blog, An...

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#Hamish #De #Bretton #-Gordon #Kimo #Loka #lurking. #reading #me #WiKi #page

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Our Good Friend ... <p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">Kimo Loka commented yesterday: </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2a2e2e;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><a href="https://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/2025/01/when-you-have-no-self-respect.html#comment-6624769350"><i></i></a></span></span></p><blockquote style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><a href="https://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/2025/01/when-you-have-no-self-respect.html#comment-6624769350"><i>They're definitely reading your blog, Andrei. Wikipedia removed the part about Hamish de Bretton-Gordon having an agricultural degree. He's now a tank warfare expert. LOL</i></a></span></blockquote><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2a2e2e;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">I went to Wiki to check this and lo and behold, Kimo Loka was right))) They <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamish_de_Bretton-Gordon">changed the WiKi page of this clown</a>, who is very much representative of the majority of the decomposing UK Army (and Navy) and of the overall acute crisis in the Western military educational system which now primarily brainwashes its graduates on military history and provides a basic tactical minimum without going into the engineering and fundamental physics and mathematical principles of warfare. I want to reiterate--<a href="https://press.armywarcollege.edu/parameters/vol54/iss2/10/">this is US Army's conclusion and that means that some of them are aware of the issue</a>. </span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2a2e2e; font-size: large;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUQo6qF35N703seIT8pcuWsMnErHqjOPUkh2rsjOv-8YZGbNlJ6mo4ptTz_Rwfc8IVmnO9BdZzUDuf3Zbi_0m-aL5nj0SYvQJtw-ksTms_1YoFUI2760ohoKorI7EJ6bDwn5fUaZcthsKd-JWq8DtBNmkN6PiAfjgQbWSWbyrjmqxW4fu_glyQMO64rOE/s2042/STEM-M-1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="2042" height="350" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUQo6qF35N703seIT8pcuWsMnErHqjOPUkh2rsjOv-8YZGbNlJ6mo4ptTz_Rwfc8IVmnO9BdZzUDuf3Zbi_0m-aL5nj0SYvQJtw-ksTms_1YoFUI2760ohoKorI7EJ6bDwn5fUaZcthsKd-JWq8DtBNmkN6PiAfjgQbWSWbyrjmqxW4fu_glyQMO64rOE/w557-h350/STEM-M-1.jpg" width="557"/></span></a></div><span style="font-size: large;"><br/></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">One can memorize Clausewitz or Sun-Tzu's one-liners whatever one wants but to understand targeting, netcentricity and modern weapons, among many other things, officer today must have serious STEM background. The times of just getting some tribal knowledge and some technical minutiae behind one's belt are long gone, and it is not enough anyway. And this cannot be addressed anymore considering a DEI catastrophe in the American public school educational system with its utterly dumbed down math with physics and chemistry (going under the title of Science) curricula which prevents any serious level for the entrance into ROTC, let alone service academies which suffer from academic woes for decades. Do not expect much change any time soon. </span></div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2a2e2e;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">And now about THEM reading (or rather lurking around my blog and videos) me--of course they do. Pardon my arrogance for a minute here, but I am well-known person in military and intel circles around the world. Many professionals, some of whom may not like me and what I have to say at all, also read me. My books are in the Pentagon's library. I am also read by journos, probably even from the MSM. In the end--their military "sources" are the same people who facilitated American geopolitical catastrophe due to own hubris, illiteracy and, frankly, utter lack of professionalism. They also hate me for me exposing who those in the shadows are--credentialed amateurs. As per those "experts" like this clown Hamish De Bretton-Woods--he is an easy target because he has no clue about the real war. It still gives me a guilty pleasure to humiliate these illiterate credentialed fanatics who never graduated beyond junior tactical officer with degree in agriculture. Would you allow a local plumber to perform an open-heart surgery on you? Of course not, and here lies your rather simple answer. As per "Russia Study" field--such does not exist in the West. </span></span></p> <div style="clear: both;"></div>

Our Good Friend ... Kimo Loka commented yesterday: They're definitely reading your blog, An...

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Our Good Friend ... <p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">Kimo Loka commented yesterday: </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2a2e2e;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><a href="https://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/2025/01/when-you-have-no-self-respect.html#comment-6624769350"><i></i></a></span></span></p><blockquote><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><a href="https://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/2025/01/when-you-have-no-self-respect.html#comment-6624769350"><i>They're definitely reading your blog, Andrei. Wikipedia removed the part about Hamish de Bretton-Gordon having an agricultural degree. He's now a tank warfare expert. LOL</i></a></span></blockquote><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2a2e2e;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">I went to Wiki to check this and lo and behold, Kimo Loka was right))) They <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamish_de_Bretton-Gordon">changed the WiKi page of this clown</a>, who is very much representative of the majority of the decomposing UK Army (and Navy) and of the overall acute crisis in the Western military educational system which now primarily brainwashes its graduates on military history and provides a basic tactical minimum without going into the engineering and fundamental physics and mathematical principles of warfare. I want to reiterate--<a href="https://press.armywarcollege.edu/parameters/vol54/iss2/10/">this is US Army's conclusion and that means that some of them are aware of the issue</a>. </span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2a2e2e;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUQo6qF35N703seIT8pcuWsMnErHqjOPUkh2rsjOv-8YZGbNlJ6mo4ptTz_Rwfc8IVmnO9BdZzUDuf3Zbi_0m-aL5nj0SYvQJtw-ksTms_1YoFUI2760ohoKorI7EJ6bDwn5fUaZcthsKd-JWq8DtBNmkN6PiAfjgQbWSWbyrjmqxW4fu_glyQMO64rOE/s2042/STEM-M-1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="2042" height="350" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUQo6qF35N703seIT8pcuWsMnErHqjOPUkh2rsjOv-8YZGbNlJ6mo4ptTz_Rwfc8IVmnO9BdZzUDuf3Zbi_0m-aL5nj0SYvQJtw-ksTms_1YoFUI2760ohoKorI7EJ6bDwn5fUaZcthsKd-JWq8DtBNmkN6PiAfjgQbWSWbyrjmqxW4fu_glyQMO64rOE/w557-h350/STEM-M-1.jpg" width="557"/></a></div><br/><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">One can memorize Clausewitz or Sun-Tzu's one-liners whatever one wants but to understand targeting, netcentricity and modern weapons, among many other things, officer today must have serious STEM background. The times of just getting some tribal knowledge and some technical minutiae behind one's belt is not enough. And this cannot be addressed anymore considering a DEI catastrophe in the American public school educational system with its utterly dumbed down math with physics and chemistry (going under the title of Science) curricula which prevents any serious level for the entrance into ROTC, let alone service academies which suffer from academic woes for decades. Do not expect much change any time soon. </span><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2a2e2e;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">And now about THEM reading (or rather lurking around my blog and videos) me--of course they do. Pardon my arrogance for a minute here, but I am well-known person in military and intel circles around the world. Many professionals, some of whom may not like me and what I have to say at all, also read me. My books are in the Pentagon's library. I am also read by journos, probably even from the MSM. In the end--their military "sources" are the same people who facilitated American geopolitical catastrophe due to own hubris, illiteracy and, frankly, utter lack of professionalism. They also hate me for me exposing who those in the shadows are--credentialed amateurs. As per those "experts" like this clown Hamis De Bretton-Woods--he is an easy target because he has no clue about the real war. It still gives me a guilty pleasure to humiliate these illiterate credentialed fanatics who never graduated beyond junior tactical officer with degree in agriculture. Would you allow a local plumber to perform an open-heart surgery on you? Of course not, and here lies your rather simple answer. As per "Russia Study" field--such does not exist in the West. </span></span></p> <div style="clear: both;"></div>

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Our Good Friend ... <p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">Kimo Loka commented yesterday: </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2a2e2e;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><a href="https://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/2025/01/when-you-have-no-self-respect.html#comment-6624769350"><i></i></a></span></span></p><blockquote><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><a href="https://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/2025/01/when-you-have-no-self-respect.html#comment-6624769350"><i>They're definitely reading your blog, Andrei. Wikipedia removed the part about Hamish de Bretton-Gordon having an agricultural degree. He's now a tank warfare expert. LOL</i></a></span></blockquote><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2a2e2e;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">I went to Wiki to check this and lo and behold, Kimo Loka was right))) They <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamish_de_Bretton-Gordon">changed the WiKi page of this clown</a>, who is very much representative of the majority of the decomposing UK Army (and Navy) and of the overall acute crisis in the Western military educational system which now primarily brainwashes its graduates on military history and provides a basic tactical minimum without going into the engineering and fundamental physics and mathematical principles of warfare. I want to reiterate--<a href="https://press.armywarcollege.edu/parameters/vol54/iss2/10/">this is US Army's conclusion and that means that some of them are aware of the issue</a>. </span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2a2e2e;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUQo6qF35N703seIT8pcuWsMnErHqjOPUkh2rsjOv-8YZGbNlJ6mo4ptTz_Rwfc8IVmnO9BdZzUDuf3Zbi_0m-aL5nj0SYvQJtw-ksTms_1YoFUI2760ohoKorI7EJ6bDwn5fUaZcthsKd-JWq8DtBNmkN6PiAfjgQbWSWbyrjmqxW4fu_glyQMO64rOE/s2042/STEM-M-1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="2042" height="350" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUQo6qF35N703seIT8pcuWsMnErHqjOPUkh2rsjOv-8YZGbNlJ6mo4ptTz_Rwfc8IVmnO9BdZzUDuf3Zbi_0m-aL5nj0SYvQJtw-ksTms_1YoFUI2760ohoKorI7EJ6bDwn5fUaZcthsKd-JWq8DtBNmkN6PiAfjgQbWSWbyrjmqxW4fu_glyQMO64rOE/w557-h350/STEM-M-1.jpg" width="557"/></a></div><br/><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">One can memorize Clausewitz or Sun-Tzu's one-liners whatever one wants but to understand targeting, netcentricity and modern weapons, among many other things, officer today must have serious STEM background. The times of just getting some tribal knowledge and some technical minutiae behind one's belt is not enough. And this cannot be addressed anymore considering a DEI catastrophe in the American public school educational system with its utterly dumbed down math with physics and chemistry (going under the title of Science) curricula which prevents any serious level for the entrance into ROTC, let alone service academies which suffer from academic woes for decades. Do not expect much change any time soon. </span><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2a2e2e;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">And now about THEM reading (or rather lurking around my blog and videos) me--of course they do. Pardon my arrogance for a minute here, but I am well-known person in military and intel circles around the world. Many professionals, some of whom may not like me and what I have to say at all, also read me. My books are in the Pentagon's library. I am also read by journos, probably even from the MSM. In the end--their military "sources" are the same people who facilitated American geopolitical catastrophe due to own hubris, illiteracy and, frankly, utter lack of professionalism. They also hate me for me exposing who those in the shadows are--credentialed amateurs. As per those "experts" like this clown Hamis De Bretton-Woods--he is an easy target because he has no clue about the real war. It still gives me a guilty pleasure to humiliate these illiterate credentialed fanatics who never graduated beyond junior tactical officer with degree in agriculture. Would you allow a local plumber to perform an open-heart surgery on you? Of course not, and here lies your rather simple answer. As per "Russia Study" field--such does not exist in the West. </span></span></p> <div style="clear: both;"></div>

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When You Have No Self-Respect. <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">That would apply to these "military experts" in UK who pretend that they are slightly more than terrorists and have a grasp of war and applied geopolitics. Remember this cretin? </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0O-jB-VBrGMSyFMGhCtUz-CE4967XR1ZXnCA6sWq0Jchbyu-ii86oH81l5jvUM_mzexZLJmw5gIvq9nt3DAFlIvjvPjK6nrNpl3RZH76AHGQoaBfBVwCny31p8OulNeObWvs38s4Cg_IYw6e-UH3MrdHQCclD8g1J1jfBrKZrC_Byn7I5nbVlSAr4qPk/s1349/Telergraph%20Challenger%20.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1150" data-original-width="1349" height="407" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0O-jB-VBrGMSyFMGhCtUz-CE4967XR1ZXnCA6sWq0Jchbyu-ii86oH81l5jvUM_mzexZLJmw5gIvq9nt3DAFlIvjvPjK6nrNpl3RZH76AHGQoaBfBVwCny31p8OulNeObWvs38s4Cg_IYw6e-UH3MrdHQCclD8g1J1jfBrKZrC_Byn7I5nbVlSAr4qPk/w477-h407/Telergraph%20Challenger%20.jpg" width="477"/></span></a></div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><br/><span>He is back at it again)))</span></span><div><a href="https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/ukraine-is-humiliating-putin-at-the-worst-possible-moment/ar-AA1x2xcz?ocid=msedgdhp&amp;pc=DCTS&amp;cvid=6bb48d4deb524997a82214ea4648fe9e&amp;ei=12" style="background-color: white; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><i></i></span></a><blockquote><a href="https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/ukraine-is-humiliating-putin-at-the-worst-possible-moment/ar-AA1x2xcz?ocid=msedgdhp&amp;pc=DCTS&amp;cvid=6bb48d4deb524997a82214ea4648fe9e&amp;ei=12" style="background-color: white; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="color: #ffa400; font-family: times; font-size: large;">Ukraine is humiliating Putin at the worst possible moment. </span></i></a><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #ffa400; font-family: times; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/ukraine-is-humiliating-putin-at-the-worst-possible-moment/ar-AA1x2xcz?ocid=msedgdhp&amp;pc=DCTS&amp;cvid=6bb48d4deb524997a82214ea4648fe9e&amp;ei=12"><i>The new year brings rather more hope to President Zelensky than Vladimir Putin, I judge. The latter may have been a brilliant spy but is being exposed as a dreadful military commander. He has forgotten, or more likely is unaware of, the principles of warfare, most especially the one that says reinforce success not failure. With his three-week special military operation now approaching its fourth year, it seems most likely that Zelensky will still be in power this time next year and Putin’s best hope may be a villa in North Korea or breaking rocks in the Urals. Russian history does not paint a rosy picture for failed dictators.</i></a></span></span></div></blockquote><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #ffa400; font-family: times; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/ukraine-is-humiliating-putin-at-the-worst-possible-moment/ar-AA1x2xcz?ocid=msedgdhp&amp;pc=DCTS&amp;cvid=6bb48d4deb524997a82214ea4648fe9e&amp;ei=12"><i></i></a></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #242424; font-family: times; font-size: large;">The NATO militaries, including the US Army generals paraded themselves throughout the SMO as nothing more than credentialed amateurs, who can operate only on templates created on utterly false premises from history to technology. But even considering the fact that British tabloids are just that, a BS peddlers, one has to ask the question, with CV like that: </span></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5FQv_EhV-58vR2xcsmo5i8RnPuUCXniDbJeWKxa-DdTOnMdtX_QrZ8eTZp4UsUoK444bKFZXXfRfoN5QCju16UwWNbN8dKZNYqFF-u4NnCGRi7NI1G8m2SYhMu5shIhDWPFoVCxbbNztbY-ROO9qvTq6k8VJ7kN4wZALfL_qHxlMSETXYUFtFKFriGYk/s1454/Hamish%20De%20Bretton%20Gordon%20CV.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1281" data-original-width="1454" height="422" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5FQv_EhV-58vR2xcsmo5i8RnPuUCXniDbJeWKxa-DdTOnMdtX_QrZ8eTZp4UsUoK444bKFZXXfRfoN5QCju16UwWNbN8dKZNYqFF-u4NnCGRi7NI1G8m2SYhMu5shIhDWPFoVCxbbNztbY-ROO9qvTq6k8VJ7kN4wZALfL_qHxlMSETXYUFtFKFriGYk/w479-h422/Hamish%20De%20Bretton%20Gordon%20CV.jpg" width="479"/></span></a></div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><br/><span style="background-color: white; color: #242424;">What do you expect? Exactly. But when one has no elementary self-respect and NATO armies and fleets are commanded by people with degrees in agriculture, biology or God forbids, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisa_Franchetti">journalism</a>, no number of hours in some staff college is going to address a gaping hole in professional military education and integrity which comes with Esprit de corps--a thing beyond the grasp of British military, a demoralized, shrinking lilliputian force which is shown its true miniscule scale by the enemy British loved to hate since 18th century. </span></span></div> <div style="clear: both;"></div>

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