Ross Cable

#AusIADSStaffRide examining the reinforced fallback position at the #Bakri Crossroads. Japanese #tank attack destroyed by determined #AustralianArmy #defence. No longer any sign here. @DVACommissioner @ADFinMalaysia #forgottenbattles #tacticallessons @AustralianArmy @AARCAusArmy

@AndyAitcheson Superb film! I’ve even been to the bunker site in Guadalcanal!

Terrible film. Assault on the Japanese bunkers set piece: exceptional.

@SeaSpitfires River Kwai?

Most Famous Second World War Bridge Poll! North West Europe edition.

@robert_lyman ‘I think I mentioned the war once but got away with it’

Blimey

@linzoconnor @benjohn65 @ABCaustralia Yes, you can write a defence paper and that becomes truth - you can literally write away your need for oil!

@benjohn65 @ABCaustralia Or, it doesn't matter Because if we follow the National Defence Strategy, we shouldn't be involved at all - its outside our primary are of interest The NDS has direct the ADF down a focused force route facing north. The MEAO (and DACC) are not in our remit

Australia isn't sending a warship to the Persian Gulf. But if the government wanted to, is there one to send? abc.net.au/news/2026-03-1… via @ABCaustralia

@SofiGaming maps.app.goo.gl/jGkqHJsT7zKX7A…

Looking for tanks and museums? I built a Google Map that has the answers! Folks are always asking which tank museums I recommend and so here's a compilation. Museums and publicly accessible collections that include tanks and more are displayed with pinned info Link is ⬇️⬇️

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@MHS_NSW M3 was never deployed?!

General Grant M3 medium tanks and machine gun carriers, being carried by train at Homebush, New South Wales, on 7 February 1944, possibly returning from New Guinea. NSW State Archives #History

@SofiGaming @KrypTanko Thanks!!

@ghazarika70 @penswordbooks @robert_lyman

On This Day 80 years ago – The Trial of the Japanese Executioners of Captain Nirpal Chand, 2/17 Dogras One of the 62,000 Indian POWs in World War II Singapore, Chand was executed in 1944 defending his men from the Japanese Army. Read about what happened and the trial held by Australian after the war – for which India owes a great debt to Australia. @PenguinIndia @penswordbooks #Indianarmy #WW2 #singapore scroll.in/article/109135…

@2805662 Or is it AI visual recognition?

Are Iranian anti-radiation targeting capabilities a thing beyond luck & skill?

@SeaSpitfires Trying again: I guess we’ll never find out its colour!

@SeaSpitfires Is well never find out it’s colour!

Is the boathouse ok?

@nathan_P44 ‘You’re lost sir!’

@RossWCable That's why Lt's have Sgt's 😎

Paper maps don't have batteries and can't be jammed by the enemy. We still need digital systems, but paper maps won't fail you.

@Mujakura @GHarward @robert_lyman @Lindsay_RAdams

Soon to be published by #hurst Why was the Japanese Army so brutal before and during World War Two? This haunting question anchors a sweeping investigation into the moral universe of Imperial Japan’s soldiers, tracing their path from the twilight of the samurai age to the ashes of Manila in 1945. Punishment uncovers a world in which war was conceived not merely as combat, but also as justice. Officers and soldiers learned to navigate two rival visions of war: one restrained by the ‘foreign gaze’ of the Western world, the other rooted in older traditions that cast adversaries as ‘rebels’ and ‘bandits’ deserving exemplary punishment. However, these competing strategies were intertwined, in an interplay of mutual mitigation and brutalisation. Drawing on archival material in six languages and fieldwork conducted across Asia—from Taiwan’s indigenous highlands to Manchuria’s sorghum fields and the streets of Nanjing—Danny Orbach reveals how ambiguity, obedience, fear and ideology converged on the battlefield. Vague orders could become massacres, and the boundary between necessity and cruelty became perilously thin. Part detective story, part moral history, Punishment illuminates how a modern state slid into devastating violence—and why that descent was neither inevitable nor easily explained. hurstpublishers.com/book/punishmen…

@2805662 I think it’s a lot lighter than the older generation radar?

She’s no looker.

@warstudies @robert_lyman

Why did Europe lose much of its heavy combat power? New research by Dr Bence Nemeth in The US Army War College Quarterly: Parameters argues it wasn’t just about budgets. 🔗bit.ly/4lf1IvE #US #Europe #NATO #Tank #Russia

@Tunisia_1943 @James1940 Ice cold.

Breakfast with Alex this morning in the officer’s Mess. never seen this portrait before. Is it my imagination but @James1940 is looking more and more like him. #TunisianCampaign