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Guy Yeomans

@guyyeomans.bsky.social
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Professional: Foresight & Horizon Scanning | Research: Resilience (CNI / Societal) & Comprehensive Security, Total Defence, National Preparedness | Emerging Risks & CM / EM | Military mobility | High North, GIUK-NGap & Arctic Futures | Personal: #OnXII

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Guy Yeomans @guyyeomans.bsky.social · 1h
I am obliged to sound the #GIUK-NGap klaxon... "The Cold War-era emphasis on defending the Northern Gap (between Greenland, Iceland, & the UK) from Russian naval incursions should be superseded by concentrating on the ‘Bear Gap’ between Northern Norway & the Svalbard archipelago..." #highnorth
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Guy Yeomans @guyyeomans.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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Guy Yeomans @guyyeomans.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Pipe or plane? Pipe or plane? Really useful visuals though!
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Guy Yeomans @guyyeomans.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The P-8 Rorschach (Irish Sea edition)!
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Guy Yeomans @guyyeomans.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Yes, good point on possible training. Thanks for that link: I hadn't seen (or had missed) any indication of that exercise.
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Guy Yeomans @guyyeomans.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Have they been busier than normal?
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Guy Yeomans @guyyeomans.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
"September is typically the busiest month for Arctic sea routes as the ice is at its lowest ebb...": record numbers, but the article doesn't give tonnage figures. The bullish assertion of 'alternative route' underplays the complexities involved... www.ft.com/content/2e0e...
ft.com
Arctic sea routes boom as Gulf war and global warming divert shipping
Transits via Northern Sea Route quadruple as melting ice makes journey more passable and vessels avoid the Middle East
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Guy Yeomans @guyyeomans.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The emerging #busanconnection! And here's where the PanStar Acro currently is: through the Bering Strait & just crossing the Gulf of Anadyr, Chukotka Autonomous Okrug... #highnorth #polartriad
Screenshot of the Marine Traffic website showing the position of the ship  PanStar Acro, currently crossing the Gulf of Anadyr, Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, Russia.
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Guy Yeomans @guyyeomans.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
It was a business visit (at BT invitation) rather than a public / social option (so was very lucky!).
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Guy Yeomans @guyyeomans.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
h/t @serenaribena.bsky.social
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Guy Yeomans @guyyeomans.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I am obliged to sound the #GIUK-NGap klaxon... Faroe Islands ..."sits in the centre of the GIUK Gap, one of NATO & JEF’s most important maritime approaches as the North Atlantic gateway for Russian ships sailing to & from the Arctic..." #highnorth #lionprotector www.royalnavy.mod.uk/news/2026/oc...
royalnavy.mod.uk
Royal Marines return to the Faroe Islands for the first time since the Second World War as UK steps up security efforts
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Guy Yeomans @guyyeomans.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Scotland-Norway: find half an hour over the weekend for this: recommended... (& it helped me correct my mispronunciation of Lunna) h/t @profmurdoch.bsky.social #shetlandbus
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Guy Yeomans @guyyeomans.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
“The world is taking notice of what we are building in northern Manitoba, & major European ports recognize Churchill’s value as a shorter, more economical trade route from Western Canada..." #lonearcticdeepwater www.theglobeandmail.com/investing/ma...
theglobeandmail.com
PORT OF CHURCHILL AND PORT OF ROTTERDAM HAVE SIGNED AGREEMENT TO STRENGTHEN TRANSATLANTIC TRADE
GlobeNewswire Press Release.
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Guy Yeomans @guyyeomans.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
And they're gone: the last mast from the #SSRichardMontgomery has been removed... (can you update your thread @shipbot.bsky.social?) www.kentonline.co.uk/sheerness/ne...
kentonline.co.uk
End of an era as final mast of iconic sunken bomb ship off Kent coast removed
The coastline has been changed forever after the final mast of a sunken Second World War ship filled with tonnes of explosives was removed.
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Guy Yeomans @guyyeomans.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The history of "Location 23": which I had the pleasure of visiting earlier in the summer > bsky.app/profile/guyy...
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Guy Yeomans @guyyeomans.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Great news & best of luck!
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Guy Yeomans @guyyeomans.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Very much looking forward to reading this... #militarymobility #arcticmobility #totaldefence #highnorthberedskap. See also > bsky.app/profile/guyy...
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Guy Yeomans @guyyeomans.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"This orientation encourages a form of tunnel vision in which innovation increasingly substitutes for strategic choice when really it ought to be viewed as a means by which to create these choices..."
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Guy Yeomans @guyyeomans.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This is the Express & they haven't used 'Arctic Blast'? I am disappointed... Though others already have, with the Mirror adding the journalistic refinement of it being a 'proper' one! www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...
mirror.co.uk
Polar vortex could spark snow chaos as expert explains Arctic blast chances
EXCLUSIVE: The combination of a powerful El Niño and a changing climate has left questions hanging over what Britain could expect this winter, with one expert describing the situation as "unknown terr...
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Guy Yeomans @guyyeomans.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
h/t @saltydogfella.bsky.social
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Guy Yeomans @guyyeomans.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I am obliged to sound the #GIUK-NGap klaxon... The Last Opaque Water. "The waters from the Bear Gap to the Greenland-Iceland-United Kingdom Gap remain the transatlantic hinge...", & "It is also the one theater where transparency does not yet hold..." #highnorth www.thecipherbrief.com/nato-cant-co...
thecipherbrief.com
NATO Can’t Count Its Way to Maritime Superiority
Allied navies are still counting hulls. The contest at sea is now about who sees, decides, and acts first.Earlier this month, Western officials disclosed that American, British, and Norwegian forces h...
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Guy Yeomans @guyyeomans.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"As demonstrated by the confrontation this April, undersea competition between Russia & NATO in the Arctic is intensifying, & new Russian weapons are being brought to bear...": interesting analysis on Olenya Guba & the infrastructure supporting GUGI... #highnorth
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Guy Yeomans @guyyeomans.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I am obliged to sound the #GIUK-NGap klaxon... Danish SeaGuardian long-range Arctic & North Atlantic surveillance capability by 2028... #highnorth
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Guy Yeomans @guyyeomans.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
And the second from @oajonsson.bsky.social, which raises alliance / Tier 1 capability perspectives... 2/2 bsky.app/profile/oajo...
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Guy Yeomans @guyyeomans.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
UK: anecdotal comment on the #wargame series. I've seen follow-up articles from 2 players on the Russian side, reflecting on their contribution but, more importantly, on the strategic challenges the game revealed. I've not seen anything directly from the UK participants: am I missing these? 1/2
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Guy Yeomans @guyyeomans.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
First coffee of the day, with a SINKEX... “The real sci-fi begins,” wrote EUCOM. “Uncrewed underwater vehicles will dive into the deep to scan the seabed & see exactly how much damage Allied firepower can do...” #AtlanticThunder26
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Guy Yeomans @guyyeomans.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Assuming this is #StrikeWarrior26: with increased activity out of RAF Lossiemouth... #thoiranaire www.northern-scot.co.uk/news/more-mi...
northern-scot.co.uk
More military aircraft set to fill Moray skies as major NATO exercise begins
Residents across Moray can expect to see and hear more military aircraft in the skies over the coming weeks.
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Guy Yeomans @guyyeomans.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
static.klipy.com
Ron Swanson: Hang In There
ALT: Ron Swanson: Hang In There
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Guy Yeomans @guyyeomans.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
UK: given the overarching cross-government resilience brief sits in the COBR Directorate, which sits in Cabinet Office, does this signal further change and / or reorganisation? #nationalresilience
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Guy Yeomans @guyyeomans.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Thread: data overlays of interest @puca.bsky.social @miskaknapek.bsky.social @vesselspotter.eurosky.social @auonsson.bsky.social?
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Guy Yeomans @guyyeomans.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Thank you!
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Guy Yeomans @guyyeomans.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Stunning. And Corporal Paquette nailed the creative brief for an exercise called 'Arctic Ghost'!
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Guy Yeomans @guyyeomans.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I am obliged to sound the #GIUK-NGap klaxon... #highnorth
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Guy Yeomans @guyyeomans.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I am obliged to sound the #GIUK-NGap klaxon... “The North Atlantic is once again a theatre of strategic competition..." #highnorth #atlanticbastion en.highnorthnews.com/politics/his...
en.highnorthnews.com
Britain takes historic command of NATO’s Arctic flank
British General Nick Perry takes charge of NATO’s Norfolk command, responsible for the Arctic and North Atlantic.
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Guy Yeomans @guyyeomans.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Is this the 'how it's going' part?
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Guy Yeomans @guyyeomans.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
ZP806 - Guernsey's Reply... nice figure of eight maneuver in there! #poseidon #thoiranaire
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Guy Yeomans @guyyeomans.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I am obliged to sound the #GIUK-NGap klaxon... "the entire regional security architecture is changing..." #westernarctic #highnorth
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Guy Yeomans @guyyeomans.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Video of the #arcticcorsair & her final voyage: can't wait to visit next year... www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGPs...
youtube.com
The final voyage for the Arctic Corsair
YouTube video by Maritime Hull
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Guy Yeomans @guyyeomans.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
UK: in a "visceral new TV format" The Wargame starts tonight... www.sky.com/watch/the-wa...
sky.com
The Wargame | Coming to Sky and NOW on 21 September
What would you do in a state of emergency? Coming to Sky and NOW.
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Guy Yeomans @guyyeomans.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Good start to the week: @katjabego.bsky.social's 'Deep Connections' has arrived... #criticalinfrastructuresecurity
Photo of Katja Bego's new book titled 'Deep Connections: the hidden battles to control subsea cables'.
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Guy Yeomans @guyyeomans.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I got there just in time!... bsky.app/profile/guyy...
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Guy Yeomans @guyyeomans.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
"We are here in Toronto to tell global investors that the Port of Churchill is open & ready to expand...” #lonearcticdeepwater www.rcinet.ca/eye-on-the-a...
rcinet.ca
Manitoba offers to waive sales tax on major Port of Churchill investments
The Manitoba government is offering to waive the provincial sales tax on major capital spending for the Port of Churchill as it tries to attract international investment. Premier Wab Kinew made the a...
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Guy Yeomans @guyyeomans.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
"The strategic significance is therefore greater than the individual flight paths. NATO is building a distributed surveillance architecture in which different aircraft can cover complementary parts of the same battlespace, from the High North to the Baltic Sea..." #highnorth
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Guy Yeomans @guyyeomans.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Norway: Finnmark & #highnorthberedskap...
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Guy Yeomans @guyyeomans.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Orbit for Isar "Onward and Upward"... #andoya #highnorth
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Guy Yeomans @guyyeomans.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
I am obliged to sound the #GIUK-NGap klaxon...“For the Russians, if they can control access to that gap, & get their submarines on the other side of it, then they’ve got free reign of the Atlantic & can hold bases on both sides of the Atlantic at risk...” www.politico.com/news/2026/09...
politico.com
NATO races to guard against Russian nuclear subs without the US
Allied forces gathered near Iceland to practice hunting for Russian submarines, with a key member missing.
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Guy Yeomans @guyyeomans.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
I am obliged to sound the #GIUK-NGap klaxon... Sea-denial capabilities: "Its deployment to Jan Mayen... significantly elevates those trials by testing how the system integrates into expeditionary advanced-base operations, combined fires, & maritime domain awareness under harsh Arctic conditions..."
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Guy Yeomans @guyyeomans.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
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Guy Yeomans @guyyeomans.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Good luck & all best wishes for that... 💪
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Guy Yeomans @guyyeomans.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Prairie Grain: and here's the confirmation for the #FederalSpey. Additional shipments planned, including zinc-concentrate & potash... #lonearcticdeepwater www.ctvnews.ca/business/art...
ctvnews.ca
For the first time in six years, the Port of Churchill shipped Canadian grain to Europe
Prairie grain is once again being shipped out of Churchill in northern Manitoba. Approximately 30,000 tonnes of Canadian durum wheat, supplied by Saskatchewan-based AGT Foods, is being loaded at the P...
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