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I am a Royal Navy Veteran who specialised in Electronic Warfare, currently applying that experience to the Cyber domain within the UK Defence Industry. Due to the nature of my work, I write anonymously to provide an uninhibited exploration of the “art of the possible” regarding the UK’s military capabilities and geopolitical strategy. This site is designed to be a promoter of conversation and theoretical war-gaming rather than a source of news, focusing heavily on Naval Power, EW, and Cyber Warfare. My goal is to promote thought and have fun with what “could” be possible.
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Hidden in Plain Sight: The Return of the Q-Ship in Modern Naval Warfare
The Concept: Imagine a warship that doesn’t look like a warship. It sits in a busy shipping lane, indistinguishable from the thousands of merchant vessels hauling goods across the globe. It carries no visible cannons, no grey hull, and flies a commercial ensign. Yet, beneath the rusted exterior of a tramp steamer or the mundane …
The New Yeomanry: Why Britain Needs a Modern Regional Militia for National Resilience
The world has changed. The comfortable assumption that major conflicts happen “over there” has been shattered by the realities of modern warfare in Ukraine. We have seen that in a peer-to-peer conflict, the front line isn’t just a trench in the Donbas; it is a server room in London, a substation in the Midlands, or …
Missiles for the Pacific: Why the Royal Navy Needs ‘Arsenal Ships’
I was stuck waiting for the Isle of Wight ferry at Portsmouth last summer, nursing a cup of lukewarm terminal coffee and staring out at the Solent. Just drifting past the Spinnaker Tower was this absolute beast of a container ship. It was stacked high with those multi-coloured metal boxes, probably full of air fryers …
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