The American submarine force assigned to hunt the British and French deterrent. Twelve boats, no contact.
Two binders. The first says Iceland can be taken in forty-eight hours. The second says the British Isles cannot be taken at all, and lists the three reasons: the deterrent, the air defence, and sixty-eight million hostile people.
184 pages. Hunt the deterrent at 18 to 22 percent confidence. Spend 65 percent of the global standoff inventory in twelve days. Land 160,000 troops across 3,200 miles and lose a quarter of the shipping. Certainty of nuclear retaliation: 95 percent.
148 cruise missiles cross the line of departure at 04:12 GMT. Eighty-four are shot down and sixty-four get through. Newport News is torpedoed and scuttled. Both Vanguards remain undetected. Britain declares a state of war.
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 morn…
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 destro…
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 whol…
"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…
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 need…
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 …
Newport News has been lost. Spearfish, aft compartment, blew to the surface and was scuttled by her own crew. Ambush took a Mk 48 in return and is limping home on the electric drive. And in twelve days of the hardest ASW anyone has ever attempted, they have no…
Every American aircraft that flew west out of this continent last month is now bombing a European country. I said in January that some of us were doing arithmetic. Here is the answer to the arithmetic: there is nobody coming. Not for them, not for us. We are a…
A state of war between the United States and the United Kingdom. My grandfather fought alongside both of them. I typed that sentence into a translation app three times because I did not believe I had understood the English correctly.