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Writer and broadcaster. @TheTimes's The General and The Journalist podcast + War & Peace newsletter. @HelpForHeroes patron. Agent, https://t.co/ysSzxi69OS

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"Mobilisation is absolutely a gamble. If it's unsuccessful, people might start to think the smart money is not on staying with Putin, but to move against him. It may only take a few thousand people. A lot of the security forces may think, we're not going to join the mutiny, but nor are we going to do anything to stop it." On TG&TJ this week: Putin is likely to order a mass mobilisation in the next few months to escalate the Ukraine war. If it fails, it could bring him down, says Mark Galeotti. 🎧Listen here;

"Mobilisation is absolutely a gamble. If it's unsuccessful, people might start to think the smart money is not on staying with Putin, but to move against him. It may only take a few thousand people. A lot of the security forces may think, we're not going to join the mutiny, but nor are we going to do anything to stop it." On TG&TJ this week: Putin is likely to order a mass mobilisation in the next few months to escalate the Ukraine war. If it fails, it could bring him down, says Mark Galeotti. 🎧Listen here;

Tom Newton Dunn

18,109 views • 22 days ago

"A round went straight into my day sack, one of the guys to my left was killed. I've had some close calls" On G&J this week: from Aberdeen's mean streets to the SBS, and now defence minister. Al Carns's extraordinary life story 🎧 Listen here:

"A round went straight into my day sack, one of the guys to my left was killed. I've had some close calls" On G&J this week: from Aberdeen's mean streets to the SBS, and now defence minister. Al Carns's extraordinary life story 🎧 Listen here:

Tom Newton Dunn

77,806 views • 5 months ago

"I don't know how he imagines that war to look. Localised, over a short period of time, across a small border with the alliance - then possibly. But in terms of a big regional conflict with Russia? We'd be found wanting in many areas". On TG&TJ this week: Admiral Sir Keith Blount - who stepped down as Nato's Deputy SACEUR in March - tells us Keir Starmer was wrong to say his new defence plan will make Britain ready for war with Russia by 2030. 🎧Listen here;

"I don't know how he imagines that war to look. Localised, over a short period of time, across a small border with the alliance - then possibly. But in terms of a big regional conflict with Russia? We'd be found wanting in many areas". On TG&TJ this week: Admiral Sir Keith Blount - who stepped down as Nato's Deputy SACEUR in March - tells us Keir Starmer was wrong to say his new defence plan will make Britain ready for war with Russia by 2030. 🎧Listen here;

Tom Newton Dunn

15,407 views • 1 month ago

"The British Army has no second echelon. We rarely win the first battle, very often the regular army is decimated and you need to regenerate" Patrick, on why we need to significantly increase our reserves 🎧G&J this week: what's in reserve?

"The British Army has no second echelon. We rarely win the first battle, very often the regular army is decimated and you need to regenerate" Patrick, on why we need to significantly increase our reserves 🎧G&J this week: what's in reserve?

Tom Newton Dunn

31,438 views • 5 months ago

"Russian tanks aren't going to come up over the Sussex Downs. But we can absolutely expect to have all kinds of sabotage hits on our critical national infrastructure - modern wars are fought in these grey zones. That's what we should be levelling with the population about." On The General & The Journalist this week: defence review author Dr Fiona Hill on ministers' failure to prepare the UK for the increased security threat 🎧Listen here;

"Russian tanks aren't going to come up over the Sussex Downs. But we can absolutely expect to have all kinds of sabotage hits on our critical national infrastructure - modern wars are fought in these grey zones. That's what we should be levelling with the population about." On The General & The Journalist this week: defence review author Dr Fiona Hill on ministers' failure to prepare the UK for the increased security threat 🎧Listen here;

Tom Newton Dunn

16,220 views • 3 months ago

"All the whispers and the bizarre developments in Moscow matter, because Putin has a growing awareness that he cannot any longer rely on the elite." On G&J this week: Is Putin waving or drowning over Iran? With Mark Galeotti 🎧 Listen here;

"All the whispers and the bizarre developments in Moscow matter, because Putin has a growing awareness that he cannot any longer rely on the elite." On G&J this week: Is Putin waving or drowning over Iran? With Mark Galeotti 🎧 Listen here;

Tom Newton Dunn

18,069 views • 4 months ago

"The Berlin Wall in '89 was a wheel on which the world's history turned. 9/11, likewise. I think this one is the same. It marks the death of the multilateral system”. On G&J this week: Professor Peter Frankopan on the Iran war's significance. 🎧 Listen;

"The Berlin Wall in '89 was a wheel on which the world's history turned. 9/11, likewise. I think this one is the same. It marks the death of the multilateral system”. On G&J this week: Professor Peter Frankopan on the Iran war's significance. 🎧 Listen;

Tom Newton Dunn

17,902 views • 4 months ago

"You could kill Khamenei, but to what purpose? A lot of what the US military has been directed to do by President Trump is strategic raiding. Extraordinarily accomplished, but I'm not sure what the political outcome is supposed to be."

"You could kill Khamenei, but to what purpose? A lot of what the US military has been directed to do by President Trump is strategic raiding. Extraordinarily accomplished, but I'm not sure what the political outcome is supposed to be."

Tom Newton Dunn

12,540 views • 6 months ago

"We don't have the mass in the region to respond in a way that is survivable. So everyone we send from Japan is killed. Thousands of Americans would die." How would a war over Taiwan play out? With Pentagon expert Oralia Mastro 🎧

"We don't have the mass in the region to respond in a way that is survivable. So everyone we send from Japan is killed. Thousands of Americans would die." How would a war over Taiwan play out? With Pentagon expert Oralia Mastro 🎧

Tom Newton Dunn

11,278 views • 9 months ago

Or listen to the former Scots Guards colonel Lincoln Jopp MC MP read it out to the House of Commons just now during the armed forces debate to mark Armistice Day

Or listen to the former Scots Guards colonel Lincoln Jopp MC MP read it out to the House of Commons just now during the armed forces debate to mark Armistice Day

Tom Newton Dunn

10,253 views • 9 months ago

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