GD's Tales
@tanktales.bsky.social
Once a soldier. ND. I post about: * Israel/Palestine. * The Balkans. * Iraq. * Edges of empires in Europe. * The First & Second World Wars. * Tanks. * WMD. * Mental Health, Moral Injury, Neurodivergence. * The current state of the British military.
1. Using war-game is heretical. Use wargame. 2. We need to do more space-centric wargaming.
Military Times@militarytimes.bsky.social · 12h agoA recent war-gaming report found that the U.S. has no tested response to a nuclear detonation in space. 🔗Link to article in comments ⬇️
I'm surprised by this outcome. Everything I have read said to me that they were guilty of "conduct prejudicial to good order and service discipline". That they were found not guilty due to "insufficient evidence" is a failure of process by the Service Police and the Service Prosecution Authority.
The Guardian@theguardian.com · 18h agoColonel cleared of not properly handling allegations of soldier who killed herself
🧵Today we remember the 44th anniversary of the Sabra and Shatila Massacres. Between 16–18 September 1982, Israeli forces encircled Beirut’s Sabra neighborhood and Shatila refugee camp, established observation posts overlooking the area, and facilitated the entry of Lebanese Phalangist forces.
On 15th September 1916 Harold Mortimore made history when his tank went into action on the SE corner of Delville Wood. This was the first ever use of tanks in combat. Thirty four Mk I tanks attacked across a five Corps frontage on the opening day of the Battle of Flers-Courcelette.
15th September 1916. Standing in the line of fire 32 will lead the way Coming over trench and wire Going through the endless grey A desolate wasteland Infernal depiction of hell The birth of a new way September 15, 1916 www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8qJ...
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"Exquisite and Elite Weapons" - but primarily stuff that has been made for decades. He is so full of shit.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3d agoTrump: "I’ve just received a Report that the United States is producing more Exquisite and Elite Weapons than at any time in our History."
110 yrs ago on 14th September 1916 the final preparations for tomorrow's historic attack were being made. The bombardment grew more intense. The RFC flew missions to mask the noise. At 7pm C Coy tanks left their posns of assembly & proceeded to SPs. At 8.30pm D Coy tanks moved off to theirs.
St John Featherstonehaugh married Siobhan Cholomondeley at Gloucester Cathedral. Eleven passing American tourists had to be hospitalised with migraine.
I don't understand Crypto. It's not real, is it? If it is real what are the crypts (or whatever a but of crypto currency is called)? Also, the people at the top seem to be making so much money out of crypto. Why are people at the bottom enabling the people at the top.
"So tell me Mr Farage, what was it about a system favoured by money launderers that allows donations to be totally untraceable that first attracted you to crypto?"
The Poelkapelle/Pond Farm tank doing its Dolly impression at Flers yestersday, as part of the 100th anniversary commemorations.
Houthis just filmed a warehouse full of US-made armor they took off Saudi-backed forces after Mocha fell. Shot on an iPhone. Such a damaging image! The coalition’s decade-long war in Yemen is ending in captured American equipment & open humiliation.
This has to be a first, an Orange man advocating for a united Ireland. 😀
Congratulations to whoever decided to put the notoriously size-obsessed Trump next to Ireland's biggest unit
How was the "world leading tank authority" yesterday @waitmanwbeorn.com ?
£36,000,000 could do so much good for quite a lot of people. Instead it will be used by a few for the benefit of a just a few people.
The ‘Maesteg bowl’ Made of sheet bronze, less than 1mm thick in places, this gorgeous Iron Age vessel decorated with blue enamel is only 20mm in height Repaired in the past, it’s now in the Llangynwyd Village Museum #llynfivalley
“The pogrom had bad intelligence” is really a bad stance for a Labour MP to take
Can any Mac iOS experts help me please? I am trying to search using Finder for documents that contain specific words. Names. My Macbook picks up the word I'm searching for in most folders apart from in one folder. And of course that's the folder I want to search!
20 Aug: Appt with GP. Suggests 2 referrals, 1 to specialist and 1 for xray. 4 Sep (two weeks after the appt!): GP letter sent to specialist. But no xray referral request sent. Sometime 4 - 11 Sep: Specialist says nah, we won't see him. Try something else.
And if the police really 'found no offences had been committed', how should we all feel about that given it signals that if we are staying in a hotel we aren't protected from large mobs trespassing and intimidating us?
I still don't have a bookshelf with a rolling ladder, so no, I'm afraid your email did not "find me well."
NTWFS is a group for those people interested in WW1 but who are looking for more than the western front in France and Belgium, as interesting as that is WW1 is so much more. Its just £7.50 a year for subscriptions and you can sign up at www.trybooking.com/uk/ESJZ
