John Foreman

Jan 23, 2025 | spectator.co.uk | John Foreman

Britain is heavily dependent on its underwater infrastructure. Ninety-nine per cent of our digital communications overseas are carried through subsea fibre optic cables. Significant damage to them at the hands of malign actors would jeopardise our way of life.

Jan 11, 2025 | spectator.com.au | John Foreman

The quietly spoken, thoughtful, brilliant Robert Blair ‘Paddy’ Mayne, four times winner of the Distinguished Service Order and co-founder of the Special Air Service, was nothing like his profane, psychotic, paddywhacking caricature in the cartoonish BBC series SAS: Rogue Heroes. His hideous portrayal does him a grave disservice and has understandably upset his family.

Jan 11, 2025 | spectator.co.uk | John Foreman

The quietly spoken, thoughtful, brilliant Robert Blair ‘Paddy’ Mayne, four times winner of the Distinguished Service Order and co-founder of the Special Air Service, was nothing like his profane, psychotic, paddywhacking caricature in the cartoonish BBC series SAS: Rogue Heroes. His hideous portrayal does him a grave disservice and has understandably upset his family. Truth about Mayne the man is now obscured by his outsized myth.

Nov 4, 2024 | huffingtonpost.es | John Foreman

Las aguas no bajan mansas desde el Kremlin. Un general ruso ha sido arrestado bajo sospecha de corrupción, después de que su exsuperior lo denunciase. Puñaladas internas, pero no una más. La detención del mayor general Alexander Ogloblin, exjefe del departamento de comunicaciones militares de Rusia, es el último arresto de una figura militar rusa de alto rango, en medio de especulaciones sobre una ofensiva contra los máximos uniformados de Vladimir Putin.

Sep 27, 2024 | spectator.com.au | John Foreman

As fighting continues between Israel and Hezbollah, planning for a potential evacuation of British nationals from Lebanon has seen troops, ships and aircraft preparing in Cyprus and the wider region. Defence Secretary John Healey has chaired meetings in London to avoid the government being caught on the hop as happened before the evacuation from Kabul in 2021, following the unexpected collapse of the Afghan National Army.