Did the #RoyalNavy tap #Soviet undersea comms cables during the #coldwar?
Listen to an officer on HMS Valiant allude to this. It's here around the 32 min mark. coldwarconversations.com/episode388/
I promised @gregjenner.bsky.social I'd share a bit more about John Hodgson the 173-page footnote guy.
Let's start with a note her wrote to himself while dying:
"I have raised persons and families from oblivion, while the genealogies of the great interest myself no more than those of the poor." /1🧵
Artistic depiction of an ancient Greek phalanx formation. A large formation of soldiers, with bronze helmets and shields, holding long pikes forming a wall of pointy ends
No phalanx has ever been broken by drones, machine gun fire, or airstrikes.
Reject modernity, embrace tradition
Text saying "What could be worse than ISIS?" Below is a building, with a sign saying "Turboanalisis"
I hate how funny this is
I don't wanna see what he did there....
He was so close! *looks at the British Empire and the British economy*
A skeleton is lifting weights. The caption reads "My MIM-104 is a machine that turns allied aircraft into downed allied aircraft"
I think the organisers may have got the names in the wrong order, but if you'd like to hear about the fate of the Kaiser's Navy after the First World War, come along! There's a late bar after all...
The business end of [insert literally whatever U.S. federal agency] crack pipe must be hot to the fucking touch
Jocko Clark: "I would've won that"
Aircraft carrier
Battleship
Cruiser
Destroyer
"Willhelm II, a gimp-armed advertisement for regicide"
i give you Kevin McAleer, "Dueling; the cult of honor in fin-de-siecle Germany" Princeton University Press, 1994, p26
Title slide for the presentation. Title is "Tenth Fleet and the Transformation of ASW." The subtitle is "Trent Hone | WNHA Symposium | February 2026." The main image shows the aft deck of a US Navy destroyer. Crew members are standing between depth charge racks, watching the explosion of a depth charge in the near distance. A convoy of ships proceeds in the far distance.
Excited to be sharing thoughts about the Tenth Fleet and the development of ASW in the US Navy in World War II at the WNHA Symposium aboard USS Midway this morning.
when Ami looks over at Alysa to be like “is this real???” and then they celebrate together ahhhhh
A reminder, before a certain movie probably makes a big thing of it again:
A young Irish couple did not provide the critical data that made Stagg tell Ike to delay D-Day.
The most critical data came from HMS Hoste, alone out in the Atlantic.
The Blacksod story is nice. But it's not true. /1
Lots of fantastic quotes in this interview, as you'd expect, but it's still consistently funny to watch Gilroy push back on the notion he's clairvoyant when all he and the other writers of Andor did was look to historical references.
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It's a pet peeve I know, but it has always been painted as 'Stagg vs. the Americans', whereas the actual guy who made the actual forecast on which Stagg and then Ike based all their decisions is never mentioned
Sorry, I will shut up now
Exactly. Stagg was not a meteorologist at all (he was a geophysicist), but he did possess the personal gravitas necessary to take the information provided by Petterssen and others and present it to the brass in a clear manner
Black and white photo of a man, in shirt and tie, examining a collection of papers and maps
Also love how the movie has neatly left out Sverre Petterssen, the Norwegian meteorologic genius at Dunstable who literally invented modern weather forecasting. He was the one who actually provided the correct forecast for June 5h-7th, that enabled Ike to first postpone the 5th and then go the 6th
'Arms for Russia and the naval war in the Arctic'
Given his previous works, it's an excellent read
If the Duke of York escaped prison, fled to France, raised an army and landed at Newhaven to try to overthrow his brother I’m not saying it would be a good thing but as a historian I wouldn’t exactly hate it.
Green background with black text. The text reads 'Impressive. And nobody cares.'
*contemplates the knowledge I'm most obsessive about*
Yeah, that sounds about right
watercolour of a battle between british and french sailing ships.
1804. Oceans are now Battlefields.
In the South China Sea a British convoy worth almost £1bn today is spotted by the French.
It should be a massacre.
Instead, Commodore Nathanial Dance is about to defeat a French battle squadron using some paint and the most overplayed hand in #navalHistory. /1 🧵
