Albion Anvil is delivered

Inbound tracks over the north of Scotland. This is not an exercise and it is not a probe.

Cruise missiles are hitting the United Kingdom.

At 04:12 GMT the United Kingdom came under sustained cruise missile attack by the armed forces of the United States. Air defences are engaging. The public should follow the guidance of local authorities and stay away from military installations.

Woke up at ten past four to what I thought was thunder.

I am fifty-eight years old and I have just heard a war start over my own house.

School is open today. I checked at five in the morning because I did not know if that was still automatic.

Thirty children are going to walk into my classroom in two hours and I am going to teach them about the Louisiana Purchase.

I remember the last one. I was three, so I remember my mother's face and not much else.

I did not expect to see her face on my own in the mirror this morning. I am so terribly sorry, all of you. I truly thought we had finished with this.

My grandfather flew out of Norfolk in 1943. Norfolk, England, not Virginia. He is buried forty minutes from Lakenheath.

We are bombing the country that buried him. I do not have a bigger thought than that and I have been trying to have one since four this morning.

Reconstructing the first salvo: 148 weapons launched. 84 intercepted — Aster 30 from Type 45s in the Forth and the Humber, Sky Sabre over the Scottish coast, 19 taken by QRA Typhoons with Meteor and ASRAAM.

64 leaked through. Buchan and Benbecula radars destroyed. Pennine relay masts down. Leeming cratered. Boulmer's masts gone, bunker still up.

A 57% intercept rate against a saturation salvo is extraordinary. It was also not enough.

The Prime Minister has informed the House that a State of War exists between the United Kingdom and the United States of America.

Five weeks ago I posted that it was quiet at Marham and something was up.

I want to go back to that morning and stay in it.

My fellow Americans. At twelve minutes past four this morning, United States forces struck military targets in the United Kingdom.

— Address to the nation, the Oval Office

He did not want this. They took our people. They put subs to sea. They moved first at Lakenheath.

We are behind him. Bring them home.

I have defended nearly all of this and I am not going to pretend otherwise now.

I cannot defend this one. Britain. I do not know a single person in this town who thinks we should be shooting at Britain and I know a lot of people who have been with him the whole way.

I am not switching sides. I am just saying it out loud once.

"I did not want this."

Sir, on the nineteenth of January you had no plan to take Greenland and you took it. On the ninth of February you told us the line stopped at Iceland. It is the sixteenth.

I preached forgiveness on Sunday to a half-empty church. I am not able to preach this. I am asking my congregation to pray for the British and I expect to be called something for it by Wednesday.

The under-reported number from last night is not the missiles that hit. It is the missiles that were spent.

Fourteen percent of the entire American global JASSM-ER inventory, in twelve hours, against the radar picture of one medium-sized country. Phase II needs several times that.

Magazine depth is a strategic variable and it is the one nobody campaigns on.

my manager asked me to stay late today.

there is a war on with britain. there is a WAR ON WITH BRITAIN. and this man wants me to cover the evening shift.

i said yes. what else is there. rent is on the first either way.

respect for saying it. genuinely. no dunk.

this app would be about forty percent less poisonous if more people could type "I cannot defend this one" without it meaning they lost.

Six anxiety presentations tonight and it is not even eleven. Two panic attacks in the waiting room. One elderly gentleman convinced the missiles are coming here.

I told him they are not. I believe that. I checked twice before I said it, which is not something I have ever had to do before telling a patient he is safe.