An Unimportant Officer @unimportanto.bsky.social · 14/02/2026The speed at which the streaming platforms are dropping and deleting shows based on early data makes national, not-for profit, broadcasters so much more important today than in broadcast history. Where will the slow-burn, cult classics of the future come from without them! 000
An Unimportant Officer @unimportanto.bsky.social · 14/02/2026Shouldn’t this be normal jogging rather than something worthy of Prime Ministerial announcement? 000
An Unimportant Officer @unimportanto.bsky.social · 14/02/2026People forget NATO operational area includes the North Atlantic (clue’s in the name) up to the US coast, so US is a necessary member, but whilst administratively harder as separate nations there isn’t a US capability Europe can’t reproduce. They have no unique hold on physics. 020
An Unimportant Officer @unimportanto.bsky.social · 06/01/2026If the USA hadn’t invaded a sovereign nation, kidnapped their leader (however despicable he is) and threatened a long standing ally, the worlds news agencies would be reporting today on the fifth anniversary of the attack on the US Capitol Building, surely it can’t be linked… 👀 043
An Unimportant Officer @unimportanto.bsky.social · 06/01/2026When they ‘flood the zone’ you need someone mapping the flood. Fascinating site documenting actions, statements, and plans of the US administration that echo those of authoritarian regimes. Not sure the accuracy, but their analysis suggests acceleration. www.trumpactiontracker.infotrumpactiontracker.info 120
Reposted by An Unimportant Officer Met Office - weather and climate @metoffice.gov.uk · 02/01/20262025 has broken historical climate records with provisional Met Office figures showing: 🌡️ warmest year on record for the UK 🌞 sunniest year on record for the UK 🌂 Below-average rainfall (90%) 38548
An Unimportant Officer @unimportanto.bsky.social · 02/01/2026The US’ attack on Europe’s freedom and quality of life has led to so many European accounts uncharacteristically reminding me how much better the continent and individual neighbours are on so many metrics. Safer, freer, healthier, culturally richer… 🎶 God bless the US’E’ 🎶 010
An Unimportant Officer @unimportanto.bsky.social · 31/12/2025Ignoring the fact that Russia has repeatedly attacked the Ukrainian leadership, and that it appears to be actual ‘fake news’, the leader of a wartime enemy is a legitimate target that everyone involved should surely have expected? 020
Reposted by An Unimportant Officer Met Office - weather and climate @metoffice.gov.uk · 23/12/2025As we approach the end of the year, 2025 is on track to be one of the UK’s warmest years on record, joining 2022 and 2023 in the top three warmest years. Find out more in our news release 👇 www.metoffice.gov.uk/about-us/new... 37642
Reposted by An Unimportant Officer Out In National Security @outinnationalsecurity.org · 09/07/2025This dismaying regulation change will continue to drive women out of the military, harming readiness, retention, and recruitment. taskandpurpose.com/news/army-15...taskandpurpose.comArmy will look for false accusations, consider 'credibility' in misconduct casesThe Army made some changes to how it investigates misconduct, adding a new fact-finding process called a “credibility assessment.” 233
An Unimportant Officer @unimportanto.bsky.social · 23/06/2025The vulnerability of the Straight of Hormuz, and movement of one-fifth of the world’s oil and gas, seems like reason enough to supercharge the energy transition, electrify heat and transport, strip generation of fossil fuels and mitigate its relevance. 030
An Unimportant Officer @unimportanto.bsky.social · 21/06/2025Now, that’s understandable, the west coast needs defending, but it isn’t NATO reinforcing expenditure. 120
An Unimportant Officer @unimportanto.bsky.social · 21/06/2025It also helps keep the Russian Navy from the east coast. I would contest the US pays proportionately more. Most European nations pay almost all their Defence budgets into the NATO JOA, whereas US west coast, Pacific costs aren’t NATO. 3.4% is more likely 1.2% attributable to NATO collective defence. 142
An Unimportant Officer @unimportanto.bsky.social · 14/06/2025Now that’s what I call a Birthday Parade! Flamboyant costumes, banging tunes, swords, plumes, horses, solid silver drums, colours flying…. The Household Division keepin’ it real for over 270 years. 020
An Unimportant Officer @unimportanto.bsky.social · 09/06/2025…Creating an inclusive, cohesive society is just as important a capability programme for serious Defence leaders as the next tank or cyber enabled thingamabob (unless the thingamabob is hunting down disinformation). 020
An Unimportant Officer @unimportanto.bsky.social · 09/06/2025Nodded to in the Strategic Defence Review, but division is a national security risk. Yes there will always be disagreement on aims and approaches, but creating deliberate division, spreading disinformation or not taking down misinformation when identified is toxic to democracy… 121
Reposted by An Unimportant Officer Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 08/06/2025To be in public office right now is to constantly ask yourself: How do I make sure I'm standing on the right side of history? There's a simple answer. The wrong side of history will always tell you to be afraid - the right side of history will always expect you to be brave. 11370431711
An Unimportant Officer @unimportanto.bsky.social · 06/06/2025I know the Conservatives need a story to separate them from Reform, but considering if it was not for the ECHR forcing change I would not have been able to serve my country for twenty years, I’ll not be voting for a party with leaving it in their manifesto. 020
Reposted by An Unimportant Officer Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 30/05/2025Reactionaries hate universities because they create open-minded liberated people open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/... 38926232
An Unimportant Officer @unimportanto.bsky.social · 29/05/2025Or did the near constant media focus on him force the PM to respond? The media are not passive observers, every report changes the environment. Not a reason to not report clearly, but there’s a feel of self-fulfilling reporting about current coverage. 000
An Unimportant Officer @unimportanto.bsky.social · 28/05/2025Anyone who thinks it wise to relax the pressure on Net Zero initiatives and incentives just hasn’t realised how far ahead China already is, from EVs to global lead in solar PV installation. Taking our foot off the metaphorical throttle would just hand our industry to others for a generation. 262
Reposted by An Unimportant Officer Vox @vox.com · 27/05/2025China is the world’s largest single greenhouse gas emitter. But now, for the first time, there’s been a shift: The country’s greenhouse gas emissions have actually fallen even as energy demand went up. Learn more: voxdotcom.visitlink.me/9HROrY 99625
An Unimportant Officer @unimportanto.bsky.social · 27/05/2025Modern stability ops and reconstruction will need tools and funding for fibre optic clean up. We may even need to be able to ‘breach’ cable strewn fields as a deliberate activity like breaching minefields. 111
An Unimportant Officer @unimportanto.bsky.social · 27/05/2025I think the militaries will be planning in the background assuming no US commitment. Clearly politicians will amend their narrative as required to bring useful allies to the table, but the planners will be planning with no support as an assumption. 000
An Unimportant Officer @unimportanto.bsky.social · 27/05/2025Clearly US guarantees would be invaluable, but trust takes a long time to build and if the allies, or enemy, don’t believe commitments will be honoured then they must plan to be able to go it alone. The situation doesn’t disappear if one ally steps back, it will still need the others to act. 100
An Unimportant Officer @unimportanto.bsky.social · 24/05/2025Or use it as the way to boost your own industry so that you never have to buy American again. 010
Reposted by An Unimportant Officer Jack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 24/05/2025While speaking to the West Point graduating class, Trump said, "No one wanted to join the military under Biden". Everyone in that graduating class started their training during the Biden administration. Donald Trump is an idiot. 19844081152
An Unimportant Officer @unimportanto.bsky.social · 23/05/2025Lady Hale, formerly the Nation’s most senior Judge, makes an important point. In the rush to act, well meaning and disingenuous alike, people make overly cautious or overly bold changes based on a highly technical and limited judgement, both doing harm. After every ruling ask has anything changed. 030
An Unimportant Officer @unimportanto.bsky.social · 11/05/2025Yet the countries that routinely come top of the happiest countries lists (typically the Scandinavians) would see her policies pretty unambitious. 010
An Unimportant Officer @unimportanto.bsky.social · 11/05/2025Millions of dollars training perfectly competent people to do difficult jobs wasted. Especially as the chance of it being overturned, again, or reversed by a future Administration seem high. 050
An Unimportant Officer @unimportanto.bsky.social · 11/05/2025Having tried to understand some of my US friends who genuinely believe AOC is some form of extremist, I just don’t see it. Much of what she appears to represent seems like relatively settled stuff in Europe, where life carries on with more public services, support, culture and history every day. 3111
An Unimportant Officer @unimportanto.bsky.social · 11/05/2025“You can’t handle the truth!” Amazing that US Naval Academy graduates are teaming up with an Annapolis indie bookstore to enable Midshipmen access to books their library banned. Junior leaders who might’ve walked past these books on the shelves could end up owning copies. wtop.com/maryland/202...wtop.com‘Operation Caged Bird’ takes flight after Naval Academy removes hundreds of books from its library - WTOP NewsA bookstore and a retired navy commander launch Operation Caged Bird — and no, it’s not a movie plot. 0104
An Unimportant Officer @unimportanto.bsky.social · 11/05/2025‘London’s magnetic appeal continues to draw a global audience, from students and entrepreneurs to tourists and corporate titans,’ One thing I’ve noticed recently is more of us running us down, but when someone actually compares us we’re still pretty great.timeout.comEurope’s best cities in 2025, revealedOne city steals the crown, yet again 000
Reposted by An Unimportant Officer The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 03/05/2025"At first, our intelligence analysts didn’t fully understand the dynamics. We couldn’t figure out why women were now involved in this al Qaeda network of death." Women helped answer it. Which is to say, involving women saved American and Iraqi lives.thebulwark.comA Commander’s Case for Women, Peace, and SecurityThe program makes the military more effective. The secretary of defense thinks it’s “woke.” 619445
An Unimportant Officer @unimportanto.bsky.social · 03/05/2025It’s almost as if DEI (in the US) has grown to actually improve our capabilities… 010
An Unimportant Officer @unimportanto.bsky.social · 03/05/2025Anyone throwing the TLA DEI about doesn’t understand how inclusive workplaces & services are regulated in Britain. I’d advise all new councillors to actually read the Equality Act, including their Public Sector Equality Duty, that they have no power to change, and sort the bins. 000
An Unimportant Officer @unimportanto.bsky.social · 29/04/2025If those talking down the energy transition and Net Zero adaptation were Victorians there wouldn’t have been an Industrial Revolution. Some proper modern day Luddites talking with confidence on science and engineering they don’t understand. 010
An Unimportant Officer @unimportanto.bsky.social · 29/04/2025As an ally, I can’t fathom why you’re letting this happen, it’s basics. Private soldiers can’t do this and they don’t know much, he has Top Secret briefings daily. At what point do we have to walk away? Some will go ahead, but they don’t understand how many US int facilities are in allies territory. 010
Reposted by An Unimportant Officer Stars and Stripes @starsandstripes.bsky.social · 28/04/2025Senior officials say personnel cuts across the Defense Dept. will delay plans to hire at least 1,000 more civilians to help prevent sexual assault, suicides and behavior problems within the military. But officials insist the programs aimed at addressing sexual misconduct so far aren’t affected:stripes.comJob cuts delay Pentagon plans to expand work to prevent sex assaults and suicides 41911
An Unimportant Officer @unimportanto.bsky.social · 28/04/2025When will @democrats.org start wearing blue MAGA hats, without irony? Made in America of course. 000
An Unimportant Officer @unimportanto.bsky.social · 28/04/2025So the US DoD has abolished its internal offices for future gazing. Of course there are companies that could step in and do similar work for a fee, but it really seems the current administration wants to strip their own capabilities back to those of much less capable forces. 000
Reposted by An Unimportant Officer Wayne E. Lee @milhistlee.bsky.social · 19/04/2025All current academy leaders should read this. And most of them should be ashamed. Stand up for what is right. If someone tells you Maya Angelou is too whatever. Say no. It's not. Demand a direct order, signed, to remove each individual book. Don't become the face of compliance. 1219
Reposted by An Unimportant Officer Ruth Deyermond @ruthdeyermond.bsky.social · 18/04/2025So the Trump administration are saying that unless Europe accepts their plan to help Russia they'll...help Russia. If you're trying to get people to do what you want, it generally helps if your carrot is different from your stick. 8389132
An Unimportant Officer @unimportanto.bsky.social · 18/04/2025Wow, such staying power, who needs allies when they just give up. 0120
An Unimportant Officer @unimportanto.bsky.social · 18/04/2025Oh yeah, what a time to be negotiating a trade deal with the US… 000
An Unimportant Officer @unimportanto.bsky.social · 16/04/2025If only military leaders had the moral courage of their children. 061
An Unimportant Officer @unimportanto.bsky.social · 16/04/2025If only Army leaders had the moral courage of their children… 010
An Unimportant Officer @unimportanto.bsky.social · 16/04/2025If only Navy Academy leaders had the same moral courage as their children… 010
An Unimportant Officer @unimportanto.bsky.social · 16/04/2025If only Air Force leaders had the moral courage of their children.militarytimes.comStudents sue Defense Department over book bans in military schoolsThe case involves 12 students from six families who attend military-run schools in Virginia, Kentucky, Italy and Japan. 000