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Feb 18 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
🇬🇧🇷🇺⚡️A former colonel in the British Army, Hamish de Bretton-Gordon, has acknowledged that Russian President Vladimir Putin was right about the weakness of the West in military and political terms.
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He believes that discussions in recent years have focused too much on reducing the number of soldiers and tanks due to the rise of cyber and space technologies, and that the UK's excellent defence industry is sometimes neglected by the government.
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Bretton-Gordon argues that if the UK continues to donate equipment and ammunition to Ukraine, it must develop its local industry to maintain its forces in the future and fill the supply chain.
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Additionally, he believes that British military technology needs updating, with the Challenger 2 tank requiring modernisation or replacement as a top priority.
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