The Unconventional Soldier Podcast
@TheUCS473
Former British Army. Past conflicts & book reviews. Wherever you get your podcasts from. #MakeArtilleryGreatAgain
Keeping the jungle warfare theme going next month. Great chat with @HistoryBowsh re his latest book "Thunder Run Meiktila 1945". Jack also put me on to "A Change of Jungles" which I have never heard of previously. Out of print unfortunately but trying to track down a copy.
This first paragraph 👇. Control the narrative. Control the past.
Thanks to successive governments we have an Alice in Wonderland situation in Northern Ireland. Known terrorists have been given the necessary space to portray themselves as "soldiers" or "peacemakers" etc. It's just all narrative bollocks of course. The average person knows the…
“These are good guns. They can fire up to eight times more than the declared barrel lifespan,” Lev, a sergeant, said. “But after 8,000 shots, maybe you’ll hit on the fifth shot instead of the third.” The Times #MakeArtilleryGreatAgain
"First members of King's Gurkha Artillery get hands-on with the L118 Light Gun" forcesnews.com/services/army/…
Use of non mil platforms to send info puzzles me. As a Tp Sgt I'd a folder with my soldiers quals inc driving in it. My responsibility. 25 years later this cluster could've prevented by basic admin. Even in the "bad old days" this nonsense would've been vetoed as a sh1t idea.
12 Regiment RA T-Battery Entire battery bar 1x pax failed to send picture of Drivers License whilst on your
Looking forward to recording a podcast with author Colin Freeman about his book "The Mad & The Brave" about Ukraine's Foreign Legion volunteers.
Heads up on the discussion with Matt Maer who commanded 1 PWRR battle group on Op TELIC 4. Out 29 July. Available wherever you get your podcasts from 👇. unconventionalsoldier.uk/2025/07/18/ins…
"A Texan father who moved his family to Russia to escape “woke” America has been sent to the front line." #FAFO
Read this excellent novel a few years ago. A brutal book on love, memory and the scars of war. Now adapted by the BBC with the first of five episodes shown last night. Not watched yet but it's a complex work to transfer to the screen without losing its haunting depth.
Leaks are like buses these days: "However, it can now be revealed that for a decade a Grenadier Guards in-house publication included a roll call of the names and current deployments of its most senior officers. Several were, or are, attached to the UK Special Forces." The Times
Following our latest podcast on Edgar Peacock and SOE in Burma it's time to revisit Slim's "Defeat Into Victory". Podcast available wherever you get your pods from. If you've read the book or listened to the episode let me know what you think in the comments below. 👍
That golden hour in Afghanistan was an anomaly. Today's reality 👇
🧵Florence Nightingale transformed medicine during the first Crimean War. Now with drones causing "almost all" injuries & wounded soldiers stranded for days, medics in Ukraine are pioneering techniques NATO has never seen. Here are survival instructions for the West 🧵⤵️
Pair of shorts for £210. For that price, they better run the trail for me, fight off bears, and whisper motivational quotes every mile.
"It has been a long and dismal rearguard action against openness. But if I had to say when it got decisively worse it was undoubtedly when Alistair Campbell ruled the Downing Street press office." - Mark Urban The dead hand of Campbell again. open.substack.com/pub/markurban/…
After a few false starts a new Substack page is up and running with part one of a short story. I hope friends and followers will join me in a journey through German history. killinggrounds.substack.com/p/dresden-augu…
Next pod with Brig (retd) Matt Maer DSO MBE about the highly kinetic tour on Op TELIC 4 when he was CO 1 PWRR BG. Follow up pod will discuss Danny Boy battle & Al Sweady inquiry. Out 30 July 25. Covered a lot of ground & not to be missed.
