Friday, July 31, 2020

●● Military Government


Overseas Military Bases ..

2023
Attrition, Supply 2023 ..
NWU - Navy Working Uniform ..
Orcine Infighting ..
Orcine Atrocities 2023 ..
US ⇔ Xina 2023

2022
CSDP, EDU, EU Army ..
Naval Arms Exports ..
Solomon Islands (Xi wants naval base) ..
Weakness - PLA Tanks ..

Air Ministry - Adastral House ..Maskirovka - Маскировка ..   Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact - 39-8-23 to 41-6-22 .. 
   Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei ..
Morale ..
Red Scare USA 1919 ..         
UNI - America's National Interests ..
USA→Europe→NATO↔Russia←China ..



Anocracy, Autocracy, Authoritarianism



China - Espionage, Industrial, Intellectual Property Theft

Cold War 1 


Construction  


EU

Geostrategic Projection
European Geostrategic Projection ..

Global
Zero Standing Army ..

Greener Military


Intelligence, Cryptanalysis

Japan

Kit

Logistics, Modeling, Strategy
DIME & National Power ..



Military Strategy - Analysis 


Militias

Morale, PsyOps 
Morale ..

Mutually Assured Destruction


Pacific

Project Management

R&D
DARPA ..

Reservists
1939 jajn ..
British Forces - 21st C ..
Territorial Army ... BEF - 20th ..

Resistance


Space



Tech - AI, Cyberwar


USA

Zapad ..


Walls 

⧫ Wargaming, Hypothetical Warfare ..


Weaponry

Wehrmacht, Nazis

● Securing Democracy 21st

Democracies 

>>> Military

Tuesday, July 28, 2020

Air Ministry - Adastral House

After the formation of the Air Ministry in 1918, its headquarters was on Kingsway; one of two identical buildings opposite Bush House became Adastral House, the name being derived from the RAF motto. This remained the home of the Air Ministry through WW2, and the roof of the building in 1940 during The Blitz is where, while fire-watching, Arthur Harris, made the remark about the bombing to a companion, "Well, they are sowing the wind...".

Air Ministry and British aerospace industry ..
War Ministries WW2 ..

Secretaries of State for Air, 1919–1946
Winston Churchill - 10 January 1919 to 1 April 1921
Frederick Edward Guest - 1 April 1921 to 19 October 1922 
Sir Samuel Hoare 31 October 1922 22 to January 1924
Christopher Thomson1st Baron Thomson 22 January 1924 to 3 November 1924 
Sir Samuel Hoare 6 November 1924 to 4 June 1929
Christopher Thomson1st Baron Thomson 1929 5 October to 1930 (R101 disaster)
William Mackenzie, 1st Baron Amulree 14 October 1930 to 5 November 1931 
Charles Vane-Tempest-Stewart, 7th Marquess of Londonderry 5 November 1931 to 7 June 1935
Philip Cunliffe-Lister, 1st Viscount Swinton 7 June 1935 to 16 May 1938
Sir Kingsley Wood 6 May 1938 to 3 April 1940
Sir Samuel Hoare, 3 April 1940 to 11 May 1940
Sir Archibald Sinclair 11 May 1940 to 23 May 1945 
Harold Macmillan 25 May 1945 to 26 July 1945
William Wedgwood Benn, 1st Viscount Stansgate 3 August 1945 to 4 October
1946

Monday, July 27, 2020

British re-armament - 1934 to 1939

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1934-1939 How Britain Prepared For WW2: Price Of Empire | War Stories  >
1938 Britain Manufactures Armaments (1938) - British Pathé > .
1931-1951 Britain's Preparation for War - RogersHx > .>> WW2 >>>History of the Second World War - Hx WW2 Podcast >> .

In British history re-armament covers the period between 1934 and 1939, when a substantial programme of re-arming the nation was undertaken.

After WW1, dubbed "the war to end all wars", Britain (along with many other nations) had wound down its military capability. The Ten Year Rule said that a "great war" was not expected in the next ten years; this policy was abandoned in 1932.

Germany was not considered a threat during the 1920s, but the situation changed radically when Adolf Hitler came to power in 1933 and withdrew Germany from the League of Nations and the Geneva Disarmament conference.

In October 1933, when the failure of the Disarmament Conference was evident, a Defence Requirements Sub-Committee of the Committee of Imperial Defence was appointed to examine the worst deficiencies of the armed forces. The group first considered the Far East, but soon looked at dangers nearer home.

Even in the mid-1930s the Royal Air Force's front-line fighters were biplanes, little different from those employed in World War I. The Re-Armament Programme enabled the RAF to acquire modern monoplanes, like the Hawker Hurricane and Supermarine Spitfire, such that sufficient numbers were available to defend the UK in the Battle of Britain in 1940, during the early stages of World War II.

Re-armament also led to the Royal Navy acquiring five new battleships of the King George V class, and modernising existing battleships to varying extents. Whereas ships such as HMS Renown and HMS Warspite were completely modernised, others such as HMS Hood, the Nelson class, the Royal Sovereign class, HMS Barham, and HMS Repulse were largely unmodernised - lacking improvements to horizontal armour, large command towers and new machinery.

Equally importantly, aircraft carriers of the Illustrious class and a series of large cruiser classes were ordered and expedited.

The British Army was supplied with modern tanks and weapons e.g. howitzers, and the Royal Ordnance Factories were equipped to produce munitions on a large scale.

Government-backed "Shadow Factories", generally privately owned but subsidised by the government, were established to increase the capacity of private industry; some were also built by the government. Similarly Agency Factories supplemented the Royal Ordnance Factories.

sī vīs pācem, parā bellum

igitur quī dēsīderat pācem praeparet bellum    therefore, he who desires peace, let him prepare for war sī vīs pācem, parā bellum if you wan...