Col. Hamish de Bretton-Gordon OBE

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TRIGGERnometry · Britain Isn't Ready For A Real War - Col. Hamish de Bretton-Gordon OBE · 5 Aug 2026 podcast

When I joined the army, there were 150,000 people and 1,000 tanks.

At the moment, it's about 70,000 and 148 tanks.

What he has done is stirred up European militaries and made people realise that actually we cannot rely on the US.

We must produce our own military capability so that when the Russian president looks west, he sees a credible defence.

We are learning from the lessons from Ukraine, 80% lethality from drones, 20% from conventional.

We now know that certainly for the foreseeable future, the next decade or so, it's going to be an autonomous type battle.

And unless we can operate in that, we're going to struggle.

Hey, Mr. Brett and Gordon, welcome to Trigonometry.

Well, thank you very much indeed for having me.

It's been a great ambition to come and do your pod at some stage.

Well, I come from a real military family.

I think I'm the fourth generation who've been through the academy at Sandhurst, a fairly sort of ordinary academic life at school.

I didn't really get many A-levels.

I did agriculture at the University of Reading and just scraped through and then went into the army, which a regular officer for 23 years.

I was lucky in inverted commas.

I sort of hit all the big matches, as it were.

So I was a young tank commander in the first Gulf War and then did Bosnia War, Kosovo War, did a few UN trips in Cyprus, then was involved in the second Gulf War as well.

And I did a number of tours in Iraq when I was commanding my regiment, a number of tours in Afghanistan as well.

And when I left the army after 23 years, I then got involved in Syria for sort of 10 years in and out of there.

And to see Assad gone and a lot of happy faces in Syria is great.

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