With insurance one balances the cost of premium against the likelihood and consequences of the risk. The risk of the UK being in a shooting war with Russia is as close to zero as makes no difference.… (View Post)

Well massively increasing conventional defence spending is going to do precisely fuck all to counter that threat so why, exactly, is the UK doing it? (View Post)

Does anybody have a sufficient level of cognitive dissonance to explain why, if the armed forces of the Russian Federation can't even secure their own territorial integrity by kicking the Mazepi… (View Post)

There's no doubt that a lot of those program management jobs could be done, probably better, by MoD civvies - although it's all fucking relative. There are a couple of good reasons for crea… (View Post)

We are operating in a post-Trump reality now where concepts like probity, honesty and consistency have very little political equity. (View Post)