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

she has been precluded from joining the military which is completely bonkers some of the doctors british doctors and american and others that i i charged around syria with had some massive issues uh psychological issues but by god they could they do their job so i think again we're learning how to get around that but um i think the the whole diversity thing um is something that that

We're trying to swim through that sea, but because there's such a political bow wave in front of it, sometimes it's really difficult.

But I'm hoping that people realize that it doesn't matter.

It's all what's in here that's important to be a soldier or fighter pilot or a Navy guy or whatever.

Well, it's difficult to say.

That $28 billion is the shortfall from the Strategic Defence Review last year, which said what we need, 80% drones, 20% whatever, and what the defence investment plan.

So there's a $28 billion gap.

Now, that manifests itself in, as I said, cavalry regiments having to buy their own drones.

It manifests itself.

I've just test-driven Challenger 3, the new British tank, that has what we call hard-kill defensive aid suites against drones.

And in order to operate in a drone-infested battlefield, you need these defensive aid suites.

But currently, they're only going to...

fund something like one or two per tank, as it were, whereas you need four or five.

So it's almost, so again, psychologically, and we, you know, when you've been into battle, you know, I was always confident the tanks that I were in, you know, you knew that they, whatever you hit them, they'd take it up.

So I can see in it from a morale perspective, to your point, you know, if you're going into an environment where rather than being 100% certain you're going to survive whatever attack, you're 50%, that,

That makes it really, really challenging.

I was trying to explain to people about the whole medical issue, and I'm sure a lot of other guests have talked about it.

I think when we're professional soldiers, we're all happy to go and do what we're asked to do.

But one of the key things is you want to know that if you're shot or blown up,

somebody is going to come and sort you out.

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