Weather weapons: the dark world of environmental warfare

Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011)

[PDF file]: […] causing the deaths of 35 people. Reporting in 2001, ‘a BBC investigation has confirmed that secret experiments were causing heavy rainfall’, though the Ministry of Defence ( MOD) denied any connection between the seeding experiments and the flood. Initially, the MoD even denied conducting any cloud seeding experiments at all. ‘Survivors tell how the […]

The long goodbye? Taking on the consultants

Lobster Issue 90 (2025)

[PDF file]: […] on management consultants, this guarantee may prove insufficient. V Lastly I will take a quick look at management consultants and their cohorts within the Ministry of Defence (MoD). Over recent decades, the size of the UK military has diminished considerably. Uniformed personnel levels have dropped, with many roles, particularly in support and logistics, being […]

Consultants Challen

Lobster Issue

[…] on management consultants, this guarantee may prove insufficient. V Lastly I will take a quick look at management consultants and their cohorts within the Ministry of Defence (MoD). Over recent decades, the size of the UK military has diminished considerably. Uniformed personnel levels have dropped, with many roles, particularly in support and logistics, being […]

The Killing of Thomas Niedermayer by David Blake Knox

Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019)

[PDF file]: […] In 1971, I began working for the Army’s Psychological Operations unit, which then operated under the cover title of ‘Information Policy’ (IP). To cover my activities, the MoD created a fake civil service job description for me under the title ‘Head of Production Services’, within Army Information Services (AIS). I was also a serving […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 91 (2025)

[PDF file]: […] and sundry after their success against tanks in the Russia-Ukraine war (in which 5,000 tanks have been destroyed so far, though not all by drones).36 Is the MoD really going to deploy 589 tanks (or armoured reconnaissance vehicles as they are sometimes called) which can’t survive on a battlefield? Apparently so. A number of […]

View from

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[…] and sundry after their success against tanks in the Russia-Ukraine war (in which 5,000 tanks have been destroyed so far, though not all by drones).15 Is the MoD really going to deploy 589 tanks (or armoured reconnaissance vehicles as they are sometimes called) which can’t survive on a battlefield? Apparently so. A number of […]

View from

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[…] and sundry after their success against tanks in the Russia-Ukraine war (in which 5,000 tanks have been destroyed for far, though not all by drones).4 Is the MoD really going to deploy 589 tanks (or armoured reconnaissance vehicles as they are sometimes called) which can’t survive on a battlefield? Apparently so. A number of […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue 63 (Summer 2012)

[PDF file]: […] they will add to the culture of mistrust and suspicion that currently characterises relations between Pakistan and the US.’ As stupid in a different way were the MOD and British armed services officers who responded to a fake (probably Chinese) Facebook ‘friend’ request apparently from the head of NATO, American Admiral James Stavridis. The […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] they will add to the culture of mistrust and suspicion that currently characterises relations between Pakistan and the US.’ As stupid in a different way were the MOD and British armed services officers who responded to a fake (probably Chinese) Facebook ‘friend’ request apparently from the head of NATO, American Admiral James Stavridis. The […]

View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] who sympathise with Palestinians is but a small sideways step. National security droppings Immediately below, under subhead The secrets at the bus stop, I speculated that the MoD files that were dropped at a bus stop in Kent were ‘lost’ deliberately, that it was a psy-op. At the time we didn’t know who the […]

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