An important day for all to remember. Beyond VE Day will of course come VJ Day and then we'll be into an era of #remembrance covering the formation of NATO, Korea and a great many other conflicts where our Armed Forces put themselves in harm’s way.

For IAMG member interest: via National WWI Museum 2025 Symposium - Beyond the Trenches: Indirect Approaches and Irregular Warfare in WWI Friday, Oct. 24 – Saturday, Oct. 25, 2025 militarygeoscience.org/national-wwi-m… REHS Sapper Geologist Corps of Royal Engineers

ICMG26 – The 16th International Conference on Military Geosciences, US Military Academy militarygeoscience.org/conference-202…

Right, sorry about that, our website was down for a bit, but normal service has been resumed!

What's a chloropleth? This is. It's a map that uses shading or patterns in proportion to a statistical variable. TL:DR - it turns stats into maps. Eg, this is a map - a chloropleth - showing the density of bombing around London region, to October 1941 (HO193/45).

Officially known as the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), that's a big bit of #infra! More than a mile long and 145m high, the dam is on the Blue Nile tributary in the northern Ethiopia highlands - 85% of the Nile's waters flow from here. bbc.com/news/articles/…

"Over more than a decade, Hamas has overcome most engineering and military challenges that #underground #warfare traditionally comes with: changing soil quality, water tables, energy needs for ventilation and lighting, and the supply of food and water." smallwarsjournal.com/2025/07/03/ear…

Methane gas kills 12 Turkish soldiers in Iraqi #subterranean search operation ⁦Dr. Daphné Richemond-Barak דפנה ריצ׳מונד-ברק⁩ ⁦IAMG⁩ ⁦John Spencer⁩ bbc.com/news/articles/…

An interesting piece here on #SbT, with some ideas on reducing or preventing threats. TBH, I have reservations over some of those, but it's informative to see how ideas can develop. smallwarsjournal.com/2025/06/30/pre… John Spencer Dr. Daphné Richemond-Barak דפנה ריצ׳מונד-ברק IAMG

Topical book on #climatechange, #subterranean (cryospheric) operations, the Cold War and #Greenland... what's not to like! A good read IMHO 🤓

IDF demolition of Hamas tunnel set off earthquake warning system - 370 tons of explosives to destroy the tunnel near Kafr Kila in southern Lebanon on October 26, 2024. timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry…

Hot Off The Press! Special Issue of Geology Today onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/gt… 3 papers on Open Access. Great work Peter Doyle 👍 and the authors!

IAMG It was great working with everyone to deliver the special issue

Fantastic use of #SbT. To understand this most challenging environment, nothing better than complete immersion! Stuart Lyle 🇬🇧 John Spencer IAMG Digital Sapper SandBlast Corps of Royal Engineers Dr. Daphné Richemond-Barak דפנה ריצ׳מונד-ברק

Beauty is in the eye of the 'projector'... The joys of projection! Of course, if you 'own' the map, you may project it in any way you see fit. In reality this is just another form of media, and those who don't understand are easily led... IAMG dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1…

Cement and therefore #concrete... Quite a worrying state of affairs with impacts to house building and some of the mega #infrastructure projects underway or planned for the future. #resilience #strategic #carboncurse bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

Interesting post here, another example of Russian exploitation of #SubT #infrastructure. Worth noting the use of the trolley to facilitate equipment and personnel transfer. Dr. Daphné Richemond-Barak דפנה ריצ׳מונד-ברק Corps of Royal Engineers IAMG Urban Warfare Institute Thanks Stuart Lyle 🇬🇧 for flagging this one 👍🏻