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That's why we had 2 airfields there with Vulcan bombers and buckets of sunshine. The Ruskies never found us.
Cough...errr...three.
That's why we had 2 airfields there with Vulcan bombers and buckets of sunshine. The Ruskies never found us.
The other V bomber airfields were, Finningley, Cottesmore, Marham and Marham. None of those are in Lincolnshire.Cough...errr...three.
The other V bomber airfields were, Finningley, Cottesmore, Marham and Marham. None of those are in Lincolnshire.
And the Ruskies still never found Lincolnshire anyway. Neither did a lot of other people.
Waddington?Coningsby is the oft forgotten V-base in Lincolnshire. Quite easy to ignore the county when hammering up and down the A1, which will also take you past another V-base at Wittering.![]()
Not sure why that got a funny.
Back to the grey zone:
Royal Marine commandos on mission to disrupt and confuse
Small groups of Royal Marine commandos will be deployed on covert missions overseas to operate in the “grey zone” between peace and war where they can disrupt enemy activity.
Lieutenant Colonel Simon Rogers, commanding officer of 40 Commando, said that they would carry out “special operations” in sensitive places where a conventional deployment would increase political risk.
An academic (in the nicest way) treatment of the subject
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Disrupt and Deny
British leaders use spies and Special Forces to interfere in the affairs of others discreetly and deniably. Since 1945, MI6 has spread mi...www.goodreads.com
But the friction between political departments is brought up multiple times.
I need to re-read this a few times, and whilst I am very careful to disagree with someone who knows more than me; the politcal risk of convenional deployment is obviated by "special operations" sounds an interesting doctrine to me.
Catching a bunch of chaps cutting around somewhere where we shouldn't be has always been a bit of an issue; and whilst I get "Covert Action" is seen as an easy cure, I am not quite sure it is quite the attractive thing to politicians that it is made out to be.
An academic (in the nicest way) treatment of the subject
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Disrupt and Deny
British leaders use spies and Special Forces to interfere in the affairs of others discreetly and deniably. Since 1945, MI6 has spread mi...www.goodreads.com
But the friction between political departments is brought up multiple times.
What are the political views and agenda of the author? In the grey zone era, just having a presence somewhere should be seen as significant. Nature abhors a vacu