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Tom Petch

@TomDCPetch

🎬 Filmmaker | Writer ᝰ🖋️ | Veteran🪖 Podcast: Speed. Aggression. Surprise.’ 🎙️Podcast link👇

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Tom Petch
Tom Petch@TomDCPetch·
@JohnWight1 This was the central tenet of Ed Moloney’s excellent ‘Secret History of the IRA’ - that Adams had to betray rank & file PIRA to get the deal over the line, while authorising them to carry out botched operations to alienate them. His belief - he could win through the ballot box.
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John Wight
John Wight@JohnWight1·
Gerry Adams played a key and peerless role in bringing an end to the Troubles in Ireland, and they will never forgive him for it.
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Tom Petch@TomDCPetch·
This is what we need! - food from action men. I had no idea Len Deighton was a chef. Strong argument for a reprint @HarperCollinsUK and thanks @BryanGo68296993 for pointing this out.
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Tom Petch@TomDCPetch·
Everyone with a passing interest in war fighting should read this book. It was my entry into military thinking - accessible to a teenager it inspired me to join the army, a tank regiment, and remains a seminal work of military history. RIP Len Deighton.
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Tom Petch@TomDCPetch·
The peace process was complicated it would have been better to leave the past alone. Sinn Féin - an organisation linked to forcing a family man to blow himself up at a checkpoint having taken his family hostage - may rue the day they decided to shine a light into that darkness.
Robert Lyman 🇺🇦@robert_lyman

We live in a post truth world. During my first tour of West Belfast this man was known to us as a member of the IRA’s B2 gun team. We had his mugshot on our watch lists. spectator.com/article/will-g…

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Tom Petch@TomDCPetch·
@robert_lyman The peace process was complicated it would have been better to leave the past alone. Sinn Féin - an organisation linked to forcing a family man to blow himself up at a checkpoint having taken his family hostage - may rue the day they decided to shine a light into that darkness.
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Robert Lyman 🇺🇦@robert_lyman·
We live in a post truth world. During my first tour of West Belfast this man was known to us as a member of the IRA’s B2 gun team. We had his mugshot on our watch lists. spectator.com/article/will-g…
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Tom Petch@TomDCPetch·
242 Special Forces troops - including more than 120 serving personnel are now being investigated by lawyers at a cost of £1 million a month and 2 attempted suicides. SAS Commander ⁦@williams_rje⁩ interview 🔗in bio:
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Richard Williams
Richard Williams@williams_rje·
Thankyou @TiceRichard for highlighting this. As I said in my reply, this self-flagellation delights and helps enemies such as the IRGC and Russia. Nothing kills UK offensive martial spirit more than the threat of never-ending legal persecution by a Human Rights Act that was never designed to govern combat.
Richard Tice MP 🇬🇧@TiceRichard

242 Special Forces troops in lawyers’ crosshairs Only ⁦@reformparty_uk⁩ will fully protect our brave veterans with new legislation Veterans for Reform newspaper.mailplus.co.uk/data/7478/read…

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Tom Petch@TomDCPetch·
Have to say US do operational names better / here we have OPERATION EPIC FURY - UKs best know op is Mincemeat…
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Deborah Haynes
Deborah Haynes@haynesdeborah·
Excoriating criticism of @FCDOGovUK & Whitehall from a diplomat who’s just quit h/t @thetimes “It’s this constant focus on the peripheral & cuddly rather than a really relentless focus on the core of what the Foreign Office is meant to be there to do” thetimes.com/article/uk-for…
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Richard Williams
Richard Williams@williams_rje·
International law is not a suicide pact. …….“Britain must now decide whether it wishes to be a meaningful participant in global security or merely a nervous onlooker, tutting from the sidelines”….(and the brave, oppressed Iranian people are watching) spectator.com/article/intern…
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Robert Lyman 🇺🇦@robert_lyman·
The dangerous verbal diarrhoea of this ideologue. Wars aren’t pleasant, but sometimes they are necessary. It’s (sometimes) the only way to defeat the sort of fascism you apparently espouse. Destroying the millenarian fantasists in Iran will make the world more rather than less safe: that’s the hope of course, but no thanks to you. But is it because you’ve been on their payroll? Asking for a friend…
Zack Polanski@ZackPolanski

Why is Keir Starmer utterly incapable of saying no to Donald Trump? Our national security requires us not to be dragged into illegal wars. The Prime Minister is making us less safe. Did we learn nothing from Iraq?

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Tom Petch@TomDCPetch·
Countries > 50% Shia. Shows possible flashpoints. And risk of wider war. Credit: @pewresearch
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The Telegraph
The Telegraph@Telegraph·
✍️ 'The ploy has backfired badly. Now the humiliated authorities in Islamabad are being subjected to a sustained terrorist campaign' | Writes Con Coughlin Read the column ⬇️ telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/02/2…
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The Unconventional Soldier Podcast
The Unconventional Soldier Podcast@TheUCS473·
The ISI trained, funded & sheltered the Taliban through the 90s & entire post-2001 insurgency, while British & American soldiers died in a war that Pakistan prolonged from across the border. Now Islamabad bombs the country it destabilised. Reap what you sow.
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Tom Petch@TomDCPetch·
Be careful what you wish for - ‘for years the Pakistani military had played this game with the Taliban - Sir Laurie Bristow - former Ambassador to Kabul #Pakistan #Taliban #War
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