Guy Yeomans

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Beyond the flights... potential Non-combatant Evacuation Operations (NEO)... #civilprotection bsky.app/profile/navy...

UK: Hold on. This critiques reporting in The Times on Monday morning, but wasn't it @theguardian.com themselves that led with the 'only two days left' reporting? (Sun 8 Mar 2026 21.33 GMT) Disingenuous? www.theguardian.com/business/202...

#ColdResponse26: would be grateful for any references to links / articles / reports on the exercise in the coming days, especially if it relates to interaction with civilian infrastructure (broadly) & rail in particular... #highnorth

"Esteemed Otter-Brother. Where should I seek the One-True-Littoral? To where should I extend my hexagonal gaze?..."

The rise of well funded independent 'Company AD Militia' formations (insert your brand compliant mission patch here) or ADAS (air defence as a service), but better keep up those subscriptions (it'll be a tax write-off anyway) & not mind too much once the crisis-initiated price-gouging starts...

a) you should have understood, by this point, given Ukraine, that you're going to have to dynamically balance population centre protection versus maintaining the systemic essential services provided by critical national infrastructure functions & b) you actually need to have AD capabilitity...

"On a glory night. Where the children of tomorrow dream away (dream away)..." Запобігти. Врятувати. Допомогти

With a shout out to co-author @rbarretttaylor.bsky.social...

Sorry... #getmycoat

Screenshot of page 177 of the UK's National Risk Register (2025 PDF version) detailing the first page (of two) of the 'Reception and integration of British Nationals arriving from overseas' risk

UK: So, Number 60 in 2025's #NRR... #civilprotection www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

I know the article is about Finnish domestic consumption & household debt levels, but I'm going to fondly recall sitting in that Espresso House drinking coffee & watching the rain struggling to change to snow in front of Helsingin päärautatieasema in December 24... #OnXII

Seeing that you mentioned #WISPA... bsky.app/profile/luka...

Correct. Not an exercise on my part in determing whether this particular 'warning' is correct per se, but highlighting the role of constructed temporalities in driving notional strategic imperatives, to whom they are directed & for what purposes & their subsequent visibility / reformulation...

17. And we're now in the prospective #backloop... #36andcountdown

“We are the future for other frontline cities,” Prokudin said. “Kherson is now the model for defending against modern warfare...” #societalresilience & #lifestrategy

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How Palantir captured the Ministry of Defence Insufficient details about the US data intelligence company’s recent contract have been made public

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UK government considering increase in defence spending The prime minister is considering meeting a 3% defence-spending target five years earlier than planned, the BBC learns.

"...the Treasury is said to be cautious" (I note the repeated use of the 'Four Soldiers & a Chinook' stock imagery: does UK defence now only exist through Leon Neal's eyes...)
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Arctic security problem sets: previously constituted VC networks may need to consider the challenge of soveriegn re-orientation... #arcticfutures

UK Carrier Strike Group to deploy to North Atlantic to keep UK safe UK will bolster regional security by deploying a Carrier Strike Group to the North Atlantic and High North

And the 'official' #GIUK-NGap klaxon: "With growing concern over Russian operations in the Greenland-Iceland-UK gap..." #highnorth #firecrest #atlanticbastion www.gov.uk/government/n...

Starmer tells Munich Security Conference Britain will deploy warships to Arctic World leaders are gathered in Germany, where Marco Rubio has said the US will "always be a child of Europe" - while criticising the UN's approach to Ukraine. Sir Keir Starmer says Europe is a "sleepin...

I am obliged to sound the #GIUK-NGap klaxon... #atlanticbastion #highnorth news.sky.com/story/starme...

Clarkson Monument on High Cross Hill, Thundridge, Hertfordshire Clarkson Monument on High Cross Hill is a Grade II listed building in Thundridge, Hertfordshire, England. See why it was listed, view it on a map, see visitor comments and photos and share your own co...

"On the spot / where stands this monument.." britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/101281321-cl...

Further to this @warmatters.bsky.social @rbarretttaylor.bsky.social... h/t @sarahkirchberger.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/eura...

More #stack @warmatters.bsky.social @rbarretttaylor.bsky.social, with useful reference to 'elephants in the room'...

I am obliged to sound the #GIUK-NGap klaxon...: "She [General Dame Sharon Nesmith] referenced the emerging Atlantic Bastion concept as part of a broader set of capabilities aimed at strengthening deterrence & responsiveness in the North Atlantic & Arctic approaches..." #atlanticbastion #highnorth

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