Military history, Special Forces, modern warfare, psychology of war
Between February 18th and 20th, the elected government of the Ukraine was overthrown by armed revolution. As Ukraine is the equal-third most corrupt country in the world, neither the outgoing or in-coming governments are...
Questionable Surveys, Deaths and Lamentable Predictions During Tony Blair’s interview on the BBC Today programme this morning, I was listening for some hint of uncertainty in his views on Iraq. He’s making too much...
Drinking beer at lunch time is great – and fun, even though it wrecks me for the rest of the day. But drinking beer at lunch time wearing a suit and tie seems to...
Soon we’ll be remembering this – the 32nd G8, as having been the “Good Old Days”. This morning, I just heard an American G8 (now G7) spokesman say that “Until Russia stops upsetting all...
Interestingly, the jingo’ism being generated by the Russian Crimean action has been used in a discussion about the Falkland Islands. In a Face Book conversation, a Brit wrote about the Argentines: “They can write...
Gregor Gysi is a parliamentary head of the largest lower-house opposition party in Germany – the Left Party, today attacked Angela Merkel’s support for sanctions against Russia. “They [the Ukraine revolutionaries] formed a new...
I’ve been amazed at the hysterical rigidity of Western responses to President Putin’s Crimea intervention; accusations of Hitleresque moves that threaten the stability of Europe, and a crisis that could lead to World War...
Would President Obama stand by allowing left wing revolutionaries to force the Mexican government out of office? What would he do if it looked like this was going to lead to civil disorder or...
It’s pretty obvious that not many people understand the facts of this Crimean crisis. Our ‘expert’ foreign correspondents are either being bulldozed into writing nonsense by their sensation-seeking editors, or are as naïve and...
Obama’s silly talk of intervention in Crimea, and Kerry’s blatherings in Kiev are so ignorant that one wonders if there’s some hidden and terribly clever agenda that will emerge later. Sadly I...
