A barbed-wire fence stretched off far to either side. A Union flag twisted in a gust of wind, and soldiers strode in and out of a squat guard’s hut in the middle of the road. Through the hut, and under a row of floodlights, I walked towards a long line of drab, low-rise brick buildings. It was the summer of 2017, and on this military base nestled among the hills of Berkshire, I was visiting a part of the British Army unlike any other. They call it the 77th Brigade. They are the troops fighting Britain’s information wars.
“If everybody is thinking alike then somebody isn’t thinking,” was written in foot-high letters across a whiteboard in one of the main atriums of the base. Over to one side, there was a suite full of large, electronic sketch pads and multi-screened desktops loaded with digital editing software. The men and women of the 77th knew how to set up cameras, record sound, edit videos. Plucked from across the military, they were proficient in graphic design, social media advertising, and data analytics. Some may have taken the army’s course in Defence Media Operations, and almost half were reservists from civvy street, with full time jobs in marketing or consumer research............
From office to office, I found a different part of the Brigade busy at work. One room was focussed on understanding audiences: the makeup, demographics and habits of the people they wanted to reach. Another was more analytical, focussing on creating “attitude and sentiment awareness” from large sets of social media data. Another was full of officers producing video and audio content. Elsewhere, teams of intelligence specialists were closely analysing how messages were being received and discussing how to make them more resonant.
Explaining their work, the soldiers used phrases I had heard countless times from digital marketers: “key influencers", “reach", “traction". You normally hear such words at viral advertising studios and digital research labs. But the skinny jeans and wax moustaches were here replaced by the crisply ironed shirts and light patterned camouflage of the British Army. Their surroundings were equally incongruous – the 77th’s headquarters were a mix of linoleum flooring, long corridors and swinging fire doors. More Grange Hill than Menlo Park..........
“If you track where UK manpower is deployed, you can take a good guess at
where this kind of ‘influence’ activity happens,” an information warfare officer
(not affiliated with the 77th) told me later, under condition of anonymity. “A
document will come from the Ministry of Defence that will have broad guidance
and themes to follow.” He explains that each military campaign now also has – or
rather is – a marketing campaign too.
UNQUOTE
Never Believe Anything Until It Is Officially Denied. Was it Otto von
Bismark's remark? So this is nothing new.
The Army explains the 77th Brigade. The Wikipedia puts a view at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/77th_Brigade_(United_Kingdom).
Women Soldiers
Feminists, the
Lunatic Fringe etc. try to inflict them on the Army. They are bad
news; that is rather the point. It is confirmed by a vicious Jew who
wrote
Pussycat, a perceptive look at Western armies.
Rorke's Drift
A letter written from
Rorke's
Drift the day after has surfaced. The South Wales
Borderers did well while
Isandlwana
was an embarrassment.
Cardwell Reforms
The Cardwell reforms of
1868 to 1874 were inflicted on the Army in spite of senior officers. They
made it a better outfit.
Jewish Brigade
Was inflicted on the Army,
which was not amused. The Army was right about them; they were vicious,
politically motivated murderers & subversives.
SAS
Post war operations are written about with considerable insight by
Ken Connor, an SAS Lifer.
SAS Training
This is very much on the right lines.
Soldiers of Fortune
Men of the
Special Air Service or SAS are the chosen ones. So it is no great
surprise that after formally leaving the Army they stick together & even do
things together. It was written by
Duncan
Campbell who manages to read as informative and fairly sympathetic
rather than a traitor, one of the Enemy Within.
His
Wikipedia entry has a different effect. The special forces club is in Herbert
Crescent behind Harrods.
Super Soldiers Full Of Drugs Are The Way Of The Future
QUOTE
Human Augmentation - The Dawn of a New Paradigm
A strategic
implications project
UNQUOTE
I have no intention of being augmented. I would not enlist again but that is
for different reasons. This sounds like a great way to keep men out of the
Army. There is collaboration with the Bundeswehr on this one & even mention
of Ethics. The
Conservative Woman puts a view.
Survival Of The Fittest
Is about the SAS &
special forces generally.
Military Covenant
Is all about fair play for the men. That means it is a dead letter, one designed
to buy votes for corrupt politicians who never served, who were never going to.
Phantom
Formally known as the
GHQ Liaison
Regiment was a Second World War
outfit with some well known people:-
Famous Phantom officers included:
actors Major
David Niven (who initially commanded A Squadron and who remarked in a
letter, "these were wonderful days which I would not have missed for
anything"),[5]
Tam Williams and
Willoughby Gray; MPs
Sir
Jakie Astor,[6]
The Hon.
Michael Astor,
Peter Baker, Sir
Hugh Fraser,
Maurice Macmillan (Viscount Macmillan), Sir
Carol Mather and
Christopher Mayhew (Lord Mayhew); Law Lord
Nigel Bridge, Baron Bridge of Harwich; journalist Sir
Peregrine Worsthorne; and
Metropolitan Police Commissioner
Sir Robert Mark.[7]
Others, including Sir
Gordon Richards and
John Hislop, excelled in the fields of academia, athletics and
horseracing.[8]
David Niven was known before the war; he came back to England from Hollywood in 1939. He could just as easily have stayed away in the hour of need.
BRIXMIS
Was one of the strange little outfits that were part of the greater scheme of
things. It was our mission to the Soviets in Eastern Germany and a rather
effective espionage operation, being one of the
Military
liaison missions. The Soviet counterpart was
SOXMIS.
MI5
Was Military Intelligence 5. It dealt with internal security
while MI6 was for foreign operations.
MI9 was about escape and evasion while MI19
interrogated POWs.
Iraq And
Brits
Brits are out there. Brits are soldiering well. Why are they
there? They should ask, they really should. Corrupt politicians, stupid
politicians, some combination are the answers. Stealing oil for Israel is
the objective.
The Wrong Side of the Hill: the secret realignment of UK defence policy with the EU
We have long been told that we have special relationship with America. There is
a degree of truth in this. Language and ancestry are parts of it. Perhaps our
military relationship should move toward Europe rather than America. There again
Europe is looking weaker and the European government is becoming even more
corrupt as I write. It was set up and it is controlled by post Marxists. That is
the major problem with it but that is true of America too. Blair and Co. are
changing things by stealth. Corruption is in their nature and it is grossly
expensive too. Military kit is normally dreadfully over priced. To pay two or
three times as much for European replacements is corruption too. That is why
they are not telling us. The
CENTRE FOR POLICY STUDIES has no compunction about it though.
The full text can be downloaded from
http://www.cps.org.uk/pdf/pub/416.pdf
Now soldiers are investigated over claims by Afghans
QUOTE
I know I normally post B*ll*cks on here and have a bit of banter, but
this issue has got up my back a bit, (well a lot if I am being honest).
I don't know if it because I am feel ill again and this is affecting my
decision making but I feel the rank and file are being scapegoated for the
decisions of those in Government.
I am distressed by the apparent
lack of support for the Tommies by the current serving 'RED TABS', having
driven and been part of a Generals Staff/HQ and from my experience, those
'RED TABS' I have been associated with had the 'Bottle' to stand up for the
Troops.
Having served in both the Army and HMP, I am aware for the
need for accountability for your actions and every now and again you will
get the odd rotten apple, but it appears to me that collective punishment
and a big hammer for a small nut is being used.
I have perhaps only
one piece of advice based on my own experience of this type of
investigations and that is to be prepared and have a EXCELLENT
LAWYER/SOLICITOR on your side from DAY 1.
If you have been involved
in events that may be investigated or served in an Operational Area under
investigation then speak to your Solicitor NOW, (THIS IS DAY 1), do not
leave it until your collar is felt as your emotions may make you make unwise
decisions.
From previous experience you need a Solicitor with
experience in taking on Government Agency's.
I recommend 'SLATER AND
GORDON LAWYERS', they joined forces with RUSSELL JONES AND WALKER, [
https://www.slatergordon.co.uk/
- 0330 107 5001 ]
Put this phone number in your wallets behind your MoD 90;
0800 223 0765.
Speak to them now and advise them of your situation and if the worse
should happen 'PHONE THEM IMMEDIATELY', and 'KEEP YOUR MOUTH SHUT UNTIL THEY
TURN UP'.
I must point out I did not use RUSSELL JONES AND WALKER
when I had my employment problems but I spoke to them informally and I
presented my own case with the assistance of a Army Officer, but I do know
of a few work colleague who did use them with more than satisfactory
results.
Google; HMP WAKEFIELD EMPLOYMENT TRIBUNALS.
On
reflection I should have used a Solicitor, whilst I won my case I believe
using a Solicitor would have taken some of the weight off my shoulders.
UNQUOTE
The men have taken the point that they are being screwed. Potential recruits
are not turning up either. This bloke has been there. Believe him. Act now.
PS What price the Military Covenant?
Have a good look at Resistance to
Interrogation. Basically it's number rank and name.
Operation
Musketeer
Was the invasion of Suez in 1956 by the
Parachute Regiment. It was the first and last large scale operation
since the
Second World War.
SAS man screwed for killing some oik in Iraq [ 17 November 2005 ]
A policy of malicious prosecutions would be an excellent way of destroying the Army's effectiveness. So would under financing it. Brown is doing that. The Army's legal department chose to prosecute one soldier sent to fight for enemy interests in Iraq. It turned out the witnesses had been paid to lie. See Betrayal of our fighting forces [ 4 November 2005 ]. Destroying civilization by undermining it from within is the technique developed by Gramsci, the chief theoretician of the communist party and being used by governments throughout Christendom.
Spin and silence at the end of the special relationship [ 3 December 2005 ]
We used to be told about our special relationship with America. Perhaps it didn't mean too much but now it means a whole lot less. Blair is buying inferior European kit at humungous prices which is incompatible with American systems. Americans are restricting our access to their research because they think it will be passed on to Europe. Meanwhile the Jews get access. Theirs is a very special relationship; that of blackmailer and the blackmailed. See also two down..
This stands for all three services. We need them all.
This one is for the Army.
Black Chancer Sues Army Because He Got Cold In Wales [ 1 October 2016 ]
Lawyers will try anything on legal aid. The money matters; justice does not.
Sergeant Blackman Gets Support From A Surprising Source [ 26 January 2017 ]
QUOTE
When the sudden, savage hurricane of firing had stopped, several bodies lay in the 'kill zone' on the forest floor. On closer inspection, the ambush party from 42 Commando Royal Marines found two of the enemy casualties alive but hideously wounded. The officer in charge was still a teenager.An Old Etonian and first-class scholar, he should have been at university but instead found himself 6,500 miles away on National Service in the Malayan jungle fighting a communist insurgency.
By that day in 1952, frontline action in the tropics had already taught Second Lieutenant Neal Ascherson much about life. But this particular incident towards the end of his tour of duty was to provide him with one of the very hardest lessons of war. And it would leave a memory that haunts him to this day.
'I went forward and found two men hideously wounded, unconscious but still just moving,' Ascherson writes in today's Times newspaper.
'One had his brains flowing out of his skull. The rib-cage of the other had been blown away so that his heart and lung were hanging out. I don't remember a moment's hesitation or doubt about what to do: I pointed my carbine and put them both out of their misery.........
Acting Colour Sergeant Alexander Blackman, a veteran of five tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, and a man described as a 'superb soldier' by his superiors, killed the wounded Taliban fighter with a bullet to the chest.
The incident was captured on video by one of Blackman's men. The video subsequently fell into the hands of the British police and Blackman was arrested........
In December 2016, the CCRC decided that there were no fewer than three grounds upon which the Blackman case was potentially unsafe and should be referred back to the Court of Appeal.........
He [ Ascherson ] is also the author of a number of books, mainly on Eastern Europe, and still lectures on archaeology. He is as far from being a Right-wing reactionary as it is possible to be. No, Ascherson is an archetypal British liberal intellectual.
UNQUOTE
The Daily Mail's coverage is good; they can when they try. Neal Ascherson is an arrogant Marxist rogue who got this one right. Having been there makes a difference.
British Army Offers Three Day Week & Opt Out Of War [ 16 February 2017 ]
Is this another step toward getting rid of the British Army, the Royal Air Force & the Royal Navy? Recall that Cameron got rid of the Harriers meaning that the Navy has nothing to land on its aircraft carriers. We are being set up as victims of the Trojan Horses by Her Majesty's Government, Her Allegedly Loyal Opposition and Treason.
Sergeant Blackman's Conviction Reduced To Manslaughter [ 16 March 2017 ]
QUOTE
Sergeant Alexander Blackman, coming to the end of a "hellish" six-month tour of the Helmand province where he had seen friends and comrades killed and their body parts hung up as trophies, killed a dying insurgent with a single shot at point-blank range.The moment was captured on film and Blackman, a veteran of five tours in Iraq and Afghanistan and described as a "superb soldier", became the only British serviceman known to have been convicted of murder on a foreign battlefield.
On Wednesday, after spending more than three years in prison for the offence, five of the most senior judges in Britain quashed his conviction and replaced it with one for manslaughter, recognising the extreme stresses that Blackman faced in the theatre of war.
UNQUOTE
This case should never have gone near a court. Finishing off badly wounded men is SOP [ standard operating procedure ] among decent armies. It is mentioned by Henry Rider Haggard in King Solomon's Mines.Ignoring the hyperbole, it sounds like bad posting against first class enemy, one that had every justification for being annoyed. Why were men there in the first place? Ask greasy little crooks like Blair, Cameron & Obama. Ask too how they got so rich so fast. They will lie about that as well. One reason is oil, see US Interests In Central Asia Are Oil, Oil, Oil. The main reason is the Israel Lobby manipulating western governments. Men aren't enlisting any more. Why get shot at then prosecuted by corrupt lawyers like Shiner? See e.g. Bent Lawyer Kicked Out After Taking Tax Payer For Millions.
New Chief Of Defence Staff Is Nick Carter [ 28 March 2018 ]
An Army wallah.
Police Investigation Was 'Seriously Flawed' [ 20 March 2018 ]
Allegations of major abuse of army recruits were made. The decision of the woman running the investigation not to take evidence from commissioned officers on the grounds that they were liars is remarkable. Who made the accusations? Why? Were they the truth or anything like it?
European Court Of Human Rights Rejects Irish Torture Allegations [ 22 March 2018 ]
Let us remember that it was the Irish that invented kneecapping, a torture method designed to cause life long pain. There is a fundamental nastiness in the Green Place. Hundreds of IRA criminals got life time immunity to prosecution while men of the British Army are still harassed.
Woman Lasts A Fortnight On Infantry Basic Training [ 27 May 2018 ]
The two others were rejected before the start.
QUOTE
The first woman to join an infantry regiment since defence chiefs lifted a ban on females serving in combat units has quit after just two weeks of training, The Mail on Sunday can reveal. The recruit dropped out of an 18-week course this month after falling behind her male counterparts on endurance marches and failing other physical tests at a training base in Suffolk.It is understood that when the woman resigned, she admitted having underestimated the physical requirements of being an infantry recruit. She also told officers that living in female-only accommodation made her feel ‘like an outsider’ and weakened her resolve. Her resignation is a huge blow to officials who are determined to integrate women into fighting units in the Army, Royal Marines and Royal Air Force.
In 2016, then Prime Minister David Cameron said it was essential that the make-up of the Armed Forces reflected society and he lifted the ban on women serving in combat units. [ Cameron lies - again. Editor ] His decision remains controversial because many commanders fear that women are incapable of withstanding the rigours of infantry training, in particular the requirement to carry heavy equipment and weapons over long distances.........
There was pressure on her instructors to help her to pass the course. I think the RAF wanted good PR out of it.’
UNQUOTE
As the officials who are "determined to integrate women into fighting units in the Army, Royal Marines and Royal Air Force" know full well, women have not got the strength or mindset to make fighting soldiers. See Women Soldiers for the evidence that officials are lying, corrupted or even, whisper it both.
SAS Man Gets Live Ammo Practice In Kenya - Five Enemy Died [ 19 January 2019 ]
QUOTE
This is the moment a lone hero British SAS trooper stormed into a luxury Kenyan hotel and exchanged fire with Islamist terrorists who slaughtered 21 people.The off-duty Special Forces warrior, wearing combat gear over casual jeans and a purple shirt, was captured on camera entering the complex in Nairobi and then emerging with terrified survivors. His face largely concealed by a balaclava, the unnamed soldier used a modified colt Canada rifle and carried a Glock 9mm side weapon [ sic ] as well as a knife for hand-to-hand combat.
He is understood to have been out shopping in the city when he heard about the attack and kitted up with equipment in the back of his car before heading to the scene to 'organise the entire operation'. Insiders say there is 'no doubt' his actions saved lives and he was hailed for his bravery last night.
Tuesday's terror attack saw five gunmen kill 21 people, including British charity executive Luke Potter and 41-year-old U.S. businessman Jason Spindler, after detonating car bombs outside.
UNQUOTE
Did our man get overtime? He proves that the Armed Citizen is the way to go, especially if he has the training. The Glock is not a bad choice. The M16 variant is, perhaps under-powered. American SEALs were there too.
3 PARA Confined To Barracks After 100 Men Visit Whores In Kenya [ 16 March 2020 ]
QUOTE
Around 650 British soldiers were confined to their barracks in Kenya after dozens of troops who'd visited prostitutes sought medical advice, The Mail on Sunday can reveal. The lockdown was ordered by their furious commanding officer after up to 100 personnel used the services of sex workers who set up temporary brothels near their base.The soldiers, of the 3rd Battalion, the Parachute Regiment battle group [ 3 PARA ], were in east Africa taking part in Exercise Askari Storm. Based at Laikipia Air Base, troops took part in the simulated rescue of up to 400 people in a mock overseas crisis which involved parachuting into Mount Kenya National Park............
After being given leave, however, scores are said to have used the services of prostitutes in the nearby town of Nanyuki. At least 30 soldiers later reported to 3 Para's medical centre saying they feared they may have contracted HIV or a sexually transmitted disease after having unprotected sex.
In response their commanding officer, Lieutenant Colonel Mark Swann, ordered every soldier – regardless of rank – to remain on the base until they returned to Britain this weekend.
A document detailing his orders reads: 'All 3 Para BG pers [persons] are gated effective immediately.
UNQUOTE
The last time that 3 PARA made the news was when they attacked Argies on Mount Longdon in the Falklands. A first class battalion did a first class job. It was where Sergeant McKay of 3 PARA got his VC; it was posthumous, sad to say. The men would have been told about local diseases and local harlots. But YOLO = You Only Live Once.
Gerry Adams Gets Away With Murder But Men Of The British Army Get Screwed [ 15 May 2020 ]
QUOTE
Hundreds of former paramilitary suspects could win compensation after the Supreme Court yesterday erased Gerry Adams’ criminal record.Judges overturned the Sinn Fein ex-leader’s convictions for trying to escape from the Maze prison in the 1970s on the basis his detention was unlawful. It means the 71-year-old now has no criminal record from his central role in the Troubles, during which 3,600 died.
UNQUOTE
The Supreme Court is a bunch of crooks abusing power again. They tried to prevent Brexit; now they are keeping Gerry Adams out of prison where he belongs while men of the British Army are subjected to Malicious Prosecution by infiltrators in the Irish legal system.
British Army Seriously Understrength [ 7 February 2021 ]
QUOTE
The calamitous state of the British Army is revealed today in a leaked briefing. All but one of its 33 infantry battalions are dangerously short of combat-ready troops, according to the alarming Ministry of Defence report. Marked 'Official: Sensitive', it shows that key frontline units have barely half the manpower needed for operational deployment.A former defence minister said it brought into question whether the UK could still meet its obligations as a leading member of NATO. Despite the shortfalls, a number of infantry battalions face the axe in a review of defence expenditure and long-term strategy.
The manpower crisis was blamed last night on years of poor pay and conditions and on the decision to outsource recruiting to a private firm.
Colonel Richard Kemp said the £1.3billion contract handed to Capita had proved 'disastrous', with bureaucratic hurdles putting off potential recruits.
The officer, who commanded forces in Afghanistan, added: 'The Army is already too small to adequately protect Britain in an increasingly dangerous world. These further cuts are dangerously irresponsible.'
The MoD document – titled 'Infantry Battalion Soldier Strength Summary, January 2021' – lists how many soldiers each of the 33 battalions needs.
The 1st Battalion, the Scots Guards, one of the Army's most prestigious regiments, ranks worst. It has a working requirement for 603 troops, yet only 339 are available for operations – a deficit of 264.
UNQUOTE
Only 33 battalions? It's a disgrace. If you want peace prepare for war.
British Government Weakening The Army Again [ 14 February 2021 ]
QUOTE
The Army is being threatened with losing almost 10,000 troops over the next decade as defence chiefs plan to invest in drones and cyber warfare capabilities. Defence Secretary Ben Wallace is believed to be considering allowing troop numbers to fall from 82,000 to 72,5000 as part of the forthcoming defence review.The Ministry of Defence believes reducing the number of soldiers will free up funds for other priorities [ such as defence? - Editor ].
UNQUOTE
Perhaps we should just be grateful that the USSR collapsed after the Berlin Wall fell. There are those generals have their eyes fixed on their second careers with the defence industry. The Merchants of Death want sales.
Black Company Commander Dismissed After Stealing £2,500 [ 26 February 2021 ]
QUOTE
A Major has today been dismissed from the Army for fraudulently pocketing £2,500 when he claimed his estranged wife and children were living with him in Germany..Pristone Osabwa, 40, abused his allowances by keeping hold of a service family home despite never having lived there with his wife and three children. The Major had falsely claimed his family were sharing the home with him while he served with the 20th Armoured Infantry Brigade in Germany.
Bulford Military Court heard Osabwa received a total of £2,527 in enhanced rates of overseas allowance and disturbance expenses between February and August 2019. Osabwa, who had served for 11 years after moving to the UK from Kenya to join the Army, pleaded guilty to two charges of fraud on the day of his trial.
UNQUOTE
They were going easy on him; prison for a couple of years would have been about right.
Blacks Charged With Selling Army Ammunition To A Policeman [ 2 July 2021 ]
QUOTE
Two serving soldiers in the British Army have appeared in court accused of plotting to sell ammunition to a police officer in an undercover sting.Kirtland Gill, 40, and Rajon Graham, 32, are charged with conspiracy to sell or transfer ammunition between December 2 last year and January 30 this year. Graham is also accused of four counts of selling or transferring ammunition, relating to a total of 300 9mm bullets which were allegedly sold to an undercover police officer. Gill faces a further charge of possession of a prohibited weapon, relating to an imitation firearm capable of discharging noxious liquid.
The pair, from Windsor, reportedly both serve in the Coldstream Guards, based in the Berkshire town.
UNQUOTE
Prince Charles wanted blacks in the Brigade of Guards. Now we see the result. Gill is a regimental sergeant major so he knows better. He beat the raps. Odd, given what read as a strong case.
Who today would fight for King and Country? [ 5 January 2023 ]
Iain Hunter asks the right question. Given that he flew Harriers with the Royal Air Force he knows the right answer. He also knows the ugly realities of modern politics. He wouldn't; nor would I.
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