Damien Lewis

It's a spider's web.

That's the mission where they sent in drones aboard trucks thousands of kilometers inside Russia to then release those drones and attack Russian airfields.

It's exactly what Paddy Main and David Sterling were doing in the North African desert.

The only difference is...

They were driving Jeeps through the deserts, thousands of kilometers, to attack these airfields with their Jeep-mounted machine guns.

And the Ukrainians drove trucks full of drones.

And that's one of many, many missions the Ukrainians have done, which are just stunning in terms of their innovation and their vision.

And when I was talking to this chap, you know, from Ukraine Special Forces, you know, two things he said.

I said, how are you managing to do it?

And he said, well, one,

This is an existential battle.

We're fighting for our survival.

So that means the necessity is the mother of all invention.

But he said, two, don't think we don't look at what happened in World War II and take examples from that and adapt them for the present day.

Yeah, so very quickly, Special Air Service.

June 1940, Churchill, aftermath of Dunkirk, calls for thousands of commandos to be raided, a new way of waging warfare.

And cascading down from that in the North African desert in the summer of 1941, David Sterling, tall guards officer, commando trained, puts forward this idea for a raiding force in the North African desert.

Really, really, really simple idea.

just beautiful in its simplicity.

You know, North Africa, the war's being waged along the coastal strip.