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HMG working out which bits of the SDR to cut so they can add “fantastic new counter drone equipment programme so all our bases don’t get spanked by shipping containers” before tomorrow morning

My choice for the book of the year in 2025 - Matthew Ford Michael Dwyer Hurst Publishers Benjamin Tallis 🇺🇦 amazon.co.uk/War-Smartphone…

A fascinating discussion about the future of war and military innovation with recently qualified Dr Rupert Barrett-Taylor Matthew Ford youtu.be/3FqGe_eb6_U?si…

This will be worth a listen. Dr Rupert Barrett-Taylor did a fantastic PhD on Palantir and military targeting and now works at the The Alan Turing Institute

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This post is absolutely disgraceful. We know nothing around the facts of this case and Group Captain Henton would have been selected on merit for the full breadth of roles at Brize. If this is the face of Reform, I don’t think many would want to serve under them.

"Intervention skeptics" when they get elected

Congratulations to Matthew Ford on the publication of War in the Smartphone Age: Conflict, Connectivity and the Crises at Our Fingertips! 🚀 👏 An essential guide to understanding war and information on today’s data-saturated battlefields—from Ukraine to Gaza and beyond.

Something to read whilst a newborn is sleeping on me! Matthew Ford

I don’t care what anyone says about drones in Ukraine there are still hundreds of thousands of Infantry doing the traditional labour of fighting. AI and drones will not by themselves revolutionise warfare and many of the usual tasks still exist. Such as fighting for example!

Great to be at the book launch for War in the Smartphone Age Matthew Ford

A question that I didn’t get to ask because it only occurred to me too late is: “Can the British Army build independent battlefield data infrastructure or will have to fall back on commercial bearers” If it does then the lines between public / private get even blurrier!

#WarintheSmartPhoneAge - was very honoured to join Matthew Ford Hurst Publishers Michael Dwyer and friends. This book opens a window to the future of war and is crucial reading for anyone interested in the way of modern war.

Oasis: a mediocre band

Striking how enduring & cyclical these concerns are: that technical intelligence will supplant or threaten human intelligence. The bigger question today is not whether HUMINT is relevant, but whether technology is changing its character in more profound ways than in the past.

A decade ago today, New Kabul Compound. Six days until the end of my tour. #dropbeatsnotbombs

In their piece for Carnegie Endowment, Dr Rupert Barrett-Taylor & Gavin Wilde argue that the conduct of war has increasingly become a fight with a one-dimensional, digital representation of the enemy. Read their full analysis here⤵️ carnegieendowment.org/research/2025/…

A decade ago today I came home from my second deployment to Afghanistan. A group of us flew home civilian and I got the tube back from Heathrow stinking and lugging my day sack. I cried when I got home then went back to work a couple days later. I couldn’t stand the silence.