Lock Up Your Daughters (and sons)

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The CDS didn’t pull any punches the other day when he said Britain must be prepared to lose sons and daughters to the fight with Russia. Defence is going to be a national effort and soon “more families will know what sacrifice for our nation means”. He was essentially firing a warning shot at an increasingly soft nation, telling it to wake up and understand that the 35 years of relative peace we’ve enjoyed since the end of the Cold War look increasingly fragile.

Good on ’im.

A few months back, a confusing email arrived in the inbox of General Hockenhull, then Head of Special Operations. It came from Defence Secretary John Healey, congratulating a geezer called Lt General Sir Rob Magowan on landing the job of…Head of Special Operations - the same pid Hockenhull currently occupied.

Unsurprisingly, Hockenhull was slightly put out by this news and accused the government of chinning off protocol and trying to parachute ‘their man’ in his role. Magowan, meanwhile, thought he was in the money - until he wasn’t - after Healey backtracked. He was, by all accounts, also absolutely raging.

Anyway, in a massive plot twist, it sounds like there may be a happy ending, with Magowan about to be re-offered the job officially this time.

Spooks at the GRU (Russian secret services) claimed this week that the new boss of MI6, Blaise Metreweli, and her Russian counterpart, Sergei Naryshkin, have been having “lengthy conversations”.

Now this is a strange thing to announce, given that these sorts of conversations are literally never discussed publicly. Someone clearly has an agenda - but you can be sure MI6 won’t be giving us anything to work with.

Big events from the past, covered in brief and probably inaccurately.

On 11 December 1941, just four days after Pearl Harbour, Germany declared war on the United States. This turned out to be a bad call. Until that moment, Germany had no obligation to fight America - but chose to anyway, convinced the U.S. lacked the will for a European war.

The declaration unified American public opinion overnight. From that point on, Germany wasn’t just fighting Britain and the Soviet Union - it was fighting most of the industrialised world.

Changing things up? This is where we briefly look at career options from across the civvy world - everything goes here so expect some absolute drivel. Sometimes Forces Assist can help place you, sometimes we can’t. Either way we can offer advice.

Firefighting is a popular route for veterans.

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