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About Tim Ripley
Tim Ripley has been writing on defence issues since 1990, for a wide range of British and international publications. He has reported from conflict zones in the Balkans and Middle East, as well as major defence and aerospace industry exhibitions around the world. Recent assignments include the conflicts in Afghanistan, Iraq, Croatia, Bosnia, Kosovo and Macedonia, the Farnborough, Paris, Dubai and Singapore Airshows, NATO Headquarters in Brussels, The Hague war crimes tribunal and the Pentagon in Washington DC. His news reporting and features have appeared in the mainstream news media (The Sunday Telegraph, The Economist, The Scotsman) as well as specialist defence publications (Jane's Defence Weekly, Jane's Intelligence Review, Jane's Sentinel, Air Forces Monthly, Air International, Defence Helicopter, Unmanned Vehicles, Flight International, Flight Daily News, World Air Power Journal, International Air Power Review)
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Coming Soon: Little Green Men by Tim Ripley

October 27, 2020 Tim Ripley 0

In February and March 2014,  Russian troops – with their rank badge and unit insignia removed – began to seize control of Crimea, blockading Ukrainian […]

Tim Ripley Reports

Rishi Sunak and Boris Johnson in battle over military review

October 25, 2020 Tim Ripley 0

Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak are locked in a power struggle over money for the military after the chancellor axed the three-year spending review last […]

British Army Royal Military Academy Sandhurst cadets alongside U.S. Army West Point Military Academy cadets

Army marches on with ‘failed’ digital recruiting system

October 11, 2020 Tim Ripley 0

Military chiefs are looking to expand an online recruiting system that has left the army short of thousands of soldiers despite repeated criticism from spending […]

Belgium Manouveres

We must sacrifice tanks and sell more arms to fund hi‑tech warfare, warns defence secretary

September 27, 2020 Tim Ripley 0

The armed forces will have to give up assets such as tanks if they are to have drones and other modern equipment, the defence secretary […]

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US will hit ‘very fast and very hard’ if Iran retaliates for Qassem Soleimani assassination, Trump warns

January 5, 2020 Tim Ripley 0

Donald Trump has warned that the US will hit Iran “very fast and very hard” if it takes retaliatory action after the assassination of the […]

British Army Royal Military Academy Sandhurst cadets alongside U.S. Army West Point Military Academy cadets

Top brass plans to shrink army

November 24, 2019 Tim Ripley 0

Defence chiefs are discussing plans to slash the size of the British Army and lend one of the Royal Navy’s flagship aircraft carriers to the […]

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Tim Ripley’s new book, Operation Aleppo, out now

May 2, 2018 Tim Ripley 0

Russia’s intervention in Syria in September 2015 caught the world by surprise. Since then Russian bombers, fighter jets, drones, warships and special forces troops have […]

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Open Source Intelligence and the Syrian Conflict

April 10, 2017 Tim Ripley 0

Syria is perhaps the most “reported on” conflict in the modern era. There is just a “torrent” of news reports, video, still pictures, social media […]

John Llewellyn Evans was shot dead as he led a raid on Vimy Ridge amid a barrage of poison gas

British soldier so brave ‘it was a shame to kill him’

April 9, 2017 Tim Ripley 0

The young Welshman was the bravest soldier the Germans had seen. But his courage went unrecognised because his commanding officers were dead. Now his great-great-nephew, […]

A flare firing over a Type 45 destroyer in 2013. The British ships have been beset by engine problems. DAVE JENKINS/CROWN COPYRIGHT/PA

Revealed: the huge gaps in UK defences

February 5, 2017 Tim Ripley 0

Britain has been left with gaping holes in its defences, with warships so noisy that Russian submarines can hear them 100 miles away, drones costing […]

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Welcome….

Welcome to the timripley.co.uk home page.

Please take the time to look through my web pages to find out more about how I can help you identify and understand key issues in the confusing and complex world of defence or enhance your existing coverage and content.

You can also find out more about my books such as Little Green Men – due for release in November 2020, Operation Aleppo, Operation Telic and Deliberate Force – and about my work as a Defence Commentator and Analyst and Photographer.

This site also includes a Terrorism Incidents Database charting major incidents since the end of World War Two through to 2004.

If you want to take matters further do not hesitate to get in touch by telephone or e-mail.

Best wishes

Tim Ripley

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Background Documents

  • Writing Operation Aleppo (PDF)
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  • Russian Order of Battle in Syria 2015-2017
  • Background Intelligence – the raw intelligence data used by Tim Ripley to write Operation Aleppo

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