This this this, it's the best

I've done a lot of interviews about this now - every journalist asks me what's going to happen. I tell them that if this were literally any other administration, I'd be able to make a confident prediction, but the US is currently run by the functional equivalent of several weasels in a bag so 😬

I am visiting an aircraft carrier next month and I am being exactly as chill as you'd expect about it because I am a **professional**

Multiple press interviews today about US carrier deployments in the Middle East, love being an expert on scary shit

What we ban here in Europe is mainly stuff in the neo-Nazi realm so this sounds an awful lot like Völkischer Beobachter dot gov

I got to go nerd out about naval drones at Kraken today, 14/10

I'll be talking Air/Maritime Integration at the Battlespace Advantage Symposium in London on 25 March. Come say hi if you'll be there! airspacepower.com/conference/b...

Went to play Airsoft today and there was a kid there in Waffen SS camo. Pretty sure he got shot **a lot**

This is what CBP used to shoot down the terrifying party balloon over El Paso (LOCUST cUAS laser) and aside from the specific dumbassery why in the absolute fuck is the Pentagon loaning these to DHS

Pot of tea + isochronic house music = new article on US naval strategy en route

The US Navy is once again at the bleeding edge of acronym development, with the unprecedented and unpronouncable C-C5ISRT (Counter-command, control, communications, computers, cyber, intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance, and targeting)

I spent an hour this morning waxing lyrical to a journalist about carrier operations and my job really just is to weaponise my autism, 14/10

[BREAKING] Chinese shipbuilder Bohai this week moved the first Type 09V new generation nuclear powered attack submarine into the launch bay at Huludao 🇨🇳 Analysis by @alxluck.bsky.social with input from HI Sutton. Illustration by @covertshores.bsky.social www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2...

Did they use an F-22 again

I have spent a lot of time over the last decade on the websites of every White House, and it is deeply embarrassing to now have this pop up when one tries to access a formal press release about bombing Iran. (Not a recent one, before everyone panics!)

Still more VLS than the Trump-class battleship

Guess what I'm doing today

First edition Monty for £3 in a local charity bookshop. Score!

"No sir, they're saying boo-onasera!"

Lawfare's coverage of Ukraine is excellent - as is its coverage of so much else. If you don't have them on your media roster, get on it.

I do actually think Dulles airport should be renamed after Trump because it's the absolute worst and should not be what represents America. (My first experience of the US was the hellhole that is Newark airport and I still hate Dulles the most.)

I just got my first "could you help with some input for a secret NATO Arctic naval project, please contact this protonmail address, we're definitely not the GRU" email. Glad to see HUMINT tradecraft isn't dead.

Maybe the real Baltic Spirit was the shadow fleet we detained along the way

The scary grown-up academic article that I submitted to the scary grown-up academic journal did not get desk rejected and the reviewers were very nice and helpful

I've been asked to do my first book blurb, which is delightful both because I get a free book about naval strategy and because it makes me feel like a proper academic. Must avoid calling it "a provocative and richly detailed classic from the pen of a master."

Artificial intelligence is all very well, but when do we get artificial strength, constitution, dexterity, charisma, and wisdom?

Shahed approaches USS Lincoln. Shot down by an F-35. Hours later the IRGC threaten to board an American-flagged tanker. Carefully calculated escalation. www.reuters.com/world/middle...

Just realised I have a Noam Chomsky book on my shelves (bought secondhand for £2, natch) and I'm throwing it straight in the recycling so it can actually do some good in the world

BBC: Will you be in our stable of experts for when the US strikes Iran? Me: NEIGH ... Me: But also yes ofc

I'm on my second media request of the day and it's only lunchtime, please could insane naval things stop happening at least long enough for me to finish my emotional support KitKat

If he goes to Reform I would probably expire from laughing

I still vividly remember the first time a man made me feel deeply uncomfortable in public. I was maybe 10 or 11, in a Metro carriage, late 90s. And it's been a thousand times since then. I hope we can keep the current outrage going for the sake of the girls who follow.

TL cleanse - the recent adaptation of Interview with the Vampire is absolutely excellent. Those books were my teenage obsession and I'm so glad someone has finally got Lestat right. You could almost feel Tom Cruise internally screaming "NO HOMO" in the movie version, which is very much not it.

Sometimes I wonder if my postgraduate education was a well-disguised monkey's paw wish, wherein I can't just switch off and play Genshin Impact at the weekend any more because I now know what shaping operations to bomb Iran look like

The White House descending into the Death of Stalin, what a treat and a surprise

"Just following orders" famously being a defence that works super well

Me checking the news every day now

The correct term is "people experiencing Frenchness"

Reposting my article from last year on the UK without America, because *gestures broadly* warontherocks.com/2025/08/brit...

New guide to Chinese Navy (PLAN) mine sweepers. China has the largest mine warfare fleet of any navy. Often overlooked, if you don't know much about mine countermeasures this might be of interest. Here -> www.hisutton.com/China-PLAN-m...

Obviously this is classic GWOT brain but it is also a man who has never looked after a family or dealt with admin in his life and thus has no idea that the most logistics-focused people on the PLANET are irate middle-aged women

My ongoing bugbear has been people calling directed energy weapons "novel effectors" but it turns out I should have been more worried about Trump calling them, and I shit you not, "The Discombobulator" apnews.com/article/trum...

With *absolutely no* sympathy implied, Farage is going to regret this as he now has a critical mass of incompetent former Tory leadership candidates who think they could run the party better. (That critical mass is two.) Watch it crumble and rejoice! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The US government might be kinda into projecting an aura of 1984-esque surveillance right now but no government has enough resources to (a) hack into and (b) usefully parse everyone's Signal chats. Just don't invite a fed into the group - although an Atlantic journalist is ironically probably fine.

I am going to have to fully read the NDS this week and I do not want to

We should all remember that: (a) Eugenics was an idea straight out of white America; (b) US fascists were a big thing in the 1920s; (c) WWII can be internalised by these people as America coming across the Atlantic to teach us feckless Europeans how to Do Violence Properly, not to beat Nazis.

I am watching Queer Eye this weekend because it reminds me of so many of the things I love about America and it's very hard to remember right now that all of that is still there somewhere. But it is. It is.