Ben Baxendale-Smith (@bbaxendalesmith) 's Twitter Profile
Ben Baxendale-Smith

@bbaxendalesmith

PhD researcher in Defence Studies @DSD_Kings. 🇬🇧 🇦🇺 🇨🇦 maritime-air in the Indo-Pacific. Associate Fellow @ConGeostrategy.

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🇬🇧Carrier Strike Group 2025🇬🇧 As anticipated based on the groups location yesterday, several elements of CSG '25 are taking up positions to transit the Suez Canal SB 🇨🇦HMS Ville de Quebec 🇪🇸ESPS Mendez Nunez 🇬🇧HMS Dauntless 🇳🇴HNoMS Maud 🇬🇧RFA Tideforce data from VesselFinder

🇬🇧Carrier Strike Group 2025🇬🇧
As anticipated based on the groups location yesterday, several elements of CSG '25 are taking up positions to transit the Suez Canal SB

🇨🇦HMS Ville de Quebec
🇪🇸ESPS Mendez Nunez
🇬🇧HMS Dauntless
🇳🇴HNoMS Maud
🇬🇧RFA Tideforce

data from <a href="/VesselFinder/">VesselFinder</a>
Navy Lookout (@navylookout) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Latest in-depth article: Royal Navy presents bold ambitions for the Future Air Dominance System navylookout.com/royal-navy-pre…

Latest in-depth article:

Royal Navy presents bold ambitions for the Future Air Dominance System 

navylookout.com/royal-navy-pre…
Iain Masterton (@iain_masterton) 's Twitter Profile Photo

New Royal Navy Type 31 Frigate HMS Venturer rolls out from her ship build hall into sunshine at Babcock's shipyard at Rosyth in Fife.

New Royal Navy Type 31 Frigate HMS Venturer rolls out from her ship build hall into sunshine at Babcock's shipyard at Rosyth in Fife.
Brent D. Sadler (@brentdsadler) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Now hear this! New endorsement for the second book in the Naval Statecraft series by former National Security Deputy National Security Advisor: “NAVAL POWER IN ACTION calls for proactive executive actions and legislation to address America’s deteriorating security environment

Now hear this!  

New endorsement for the second book in the Naval Statecraft series by former National Security Deputy National Security Advisor:

“NAVAL POWER IN ACTION calls for proactive executive actions and legislation to address America’s deteriorating security environment
JamesFennell.bsky.social (@fennelljw) 's Twitter Profile Photo

The drip-drip of SDR stories continues.... - CCF to be expanded to state schools - Reservists visiting to schools to educate kids on the role of the Armed Forces and careers opportunities - £1 billion for a new 2* cyber and AI command telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/05/2…

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‘Adapting its strategy is insufficient. To succeed, 🇬🇧 must close its say-do gap in the Wider North,’ argues Arun Dawson, War Studies #BigAsk #BritainsWorld britainsworld.org.uk/p/the-big-ask-…

Larisa Brown (@larisamlbrown) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Exclusive: Spending 3 per cent of national income on defence is no longer an ambition, it's a certainty, John Healey, the defence secretary says thetimes.com/article/7b4b21…

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Also expand the surface fleet to 25 frigates and destroyers, ABM/CM protection for UK, and previously annouced Atlantic Bastion ASW system (Project CABOT) and Home Guard.

The Times and The Sunday Times (@thetimes) 's Twitter Profile Photo

🔺 EXCLUSIVE: American-made planes armed with tactical weapons would be the UK’s biggest defence expansion since the Cold War ⬇️ thetimes.com/uk/defence/art…

Conflict Dispatch (@conflictdisp) 's Twitter Profile Photo

🇺🇦🇷🇺 Final Map of the Locations of the "Web" Operation by Ukraine's SBU in Russia: - Olenya Air Base in the Murmansk Region - Belaya Air Base in the Irkutsk Region - Ivanovo Air Base in the Ivanovo Region - Dyagilevo Air Base in the Ryazan Region - Severomorsk (Main

🇺🇦🇷🇺 Final Map of the Locations of the "Web" Operation by Ukraine's SBU in Russia:     

- Olenya Air Base in the Murmansk Region 
- Belaya Air Base in the Irkutsk Region 
- Ivanovo Air Base in the Ivanovo Region 
- Dyagilevo Air Base in the Ryazan Region
- Severomorsk (Main
Shashank Joshi (@shashj) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Tom Sharpe describes SDR in detail: Five pillars: 1/ warfighting readiness, 2/ NATO-first/not NATO-only, 3/ defence as "engine for growth", 4/ innovation, 5/ national resilience/whole of society. "the review itself is something of a disappointment" telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/06/0…

Larisa Brown (@larisamlbrown) 's Twitter Profile Photo

BREAKING: Britain will be forced to agree to spend 3.5 per cent of national income on defence by 2035 as part of a Nato push to rearm and placate President Trump despite having no plan to pay for it thetimes.com/article/4ecdc9…