Jon Howarth
@JonHowarth
Doctoral Researcher of civil-military relations & strategy. Interested in terrorism, irregular conflict, Yemen. #AVFC.
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New four-part essay series below on contemporary Western strategy. It argues that core organising ideas of the post-1945 order — victory, the West, alliance decision, governance — still shape behaviour, but no longer explain outcomes. The series traces what comes after them.
Wrong in law, no binding ruling exists. The 2019 ICJ opinion was advisory only, and ICJ jurisdiction under Art 36(2) excludes UK - Commonwealth/former Commonwealth disputes by design. This is a political choice by ideological fanatics, no legal compulsion exists - nor can it.
Ignore the politicians - we pretty much had to hand the Chagos Islands back. Not doing it would have cost us. I explained this on BBC Politics Live
Meanwhile, Starmer commits Brigades to Ukraine and discusses sending God knows what to Greenland. When political leaders are operating in the realm of pure fantasy it’s not a good sign. He needs to be called out by someone who cannot be ignored.
Happening now: Air Chief Marshal Sir Rich Knighton @UKCDS_MOD is giving evidence to @CommonsDefence parliamentlive.tv/Event/Index/20…
The Chagos Betrayal: Starmer's £35 Billion Lie and the Surrender of Sovereignty Keir Starmer did not just surrender British territory. He lied about the price, misused the name of an independent watchdog to hide the truth, and called it statesmanship. The Chagos deal is not a…
Perhaps he is too arrogant to resign, @NJ_Timothy, or perhaps he knows something we don’t - yet? Is it likely that the WMP leadership indulged in this activity without receiving guidance from higher political authority?
What was left of the credibility of West Midlands Police has been destroyed today. We learned earlier that their initial reason for banning Israelis from Villa Park was the danger *to* away fans *from* armed” locals. But to justify the ban they portrayed the Israelis as…
If the US is rowing back on deals concerning AI, nuclear, and quantum computing, what does it mean for AUKUS Pillar 2?
The US has suspended implementation of a technology deal it struck with the UK during Donald Trump’s state visit to Britain, amid growing frustrations in Washington over the progress of trade talks with London ft.trib.al/CfARHdj
Defence wasn’t even mentioned in the Budget. After nearly four years of major war in Europe, HMG isn’t preparing the Armed Forces or the nation for a direct conflict. If they believed war was coming, such glaring negligence would be unthinkable. Follow the money.
Everyone in UK 'must step up' to deter Russian threat of wider war, armed forces chief to warn trib.al/WEOpfNo
Send the asteroid, please.
Chinese mega embassy could bring security advantages, says No 10 bbc.in/3MbR23A
The problem with the British economy, British security, and Britain in general, is the liberal jihad being waged against the nation by the state. Net zero being a totemic example of the former.
Let’s be honest BREXIT has destroyed the British economy and has completely destroyed border security.
Reform has been dropping in the polls, so Starmer moves to shore up their support.
The quandary of building European security minus the US: there is no entity called ‘Europe’ that thinks and acts as a unified whole. An expanded JEF seems a more feasible security block as the successor to NATO, post Pax Americana. Fair weather allies do more harm than good.
A convenient excuse for Belgium, which wants to keep profiting from Russian blood money for as long as possible; wider European security and the lives of Ukrainians be damned.
For years, the Poles committed the cardinal sin of being right about Putin’s strategic intent. Entirely predictable that the same players who got Russia so wrong (at great financial gain to themselves) are sidelining Poland again now.
A lot of transatlantic chauvinisms still persist, even after the weight of the burden has shifted to Eastern Europe. Poland absolutely belonged at this meeting.
The ‘but NATO expansion’ crowd always ignore two basic facts: every new member joined the alliance enthusiastically, and did so to protect themselves from future Russian predation. NATO isn’t an imperial project, it’s a wall sheltering European civilization from the uncivilised.
As of today, the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine (2022-02-24 – 2025-11-21, 1367 days) has lasted longer than the US's involvement in WW2 (1941-07-12 – 1945-09-02, 1366 days).
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