Submarine Sex Entertains Daily Mail Readers
The Daily Mail has published a leaked story about the Royal Navy’s nuclear missile submarine HMS Valiant. The Mail talks of it as a “party boat”, with cocaine use and illicit sex. One can...
Hugh McManners Blog
Shot at Dawn: Honour Our Dead – Get the Facts Right
Henry Farr wasn’t shot the next day – but one month later, and eighteen days after his court martial. Getting the facts right is important. Mr Farr had already suffered and been treated for...
25th Anniversary of the Largest (and shortest) Tank Battle in History
Regarding my Gulf War One Book, some people have questioned my saying this was the largest tank battle in history, and cite Kursk in which the Soviet Army defeated the Germans. They are wrong...
USN Seal Admiral Dick Lyon dies aged 90
The Seal legend Dick Lyon has just died aged 90. He was one of the Second World War pioneers of the “naked swimmer” demolition teams, served in the Korean War, then was the first...
25 Years Ago: IRA Mortar Hits 10 Downing Street
At 1008 am, on 7th February 1991, as Prime Minister John Major’s War Cabinet sat down to meet in the Cabinet Room, an IRA mortar hit 10 Downing Street. Several police officers were injured...
25 Years Ago Today: the Iraq Army Invades Saudi Arabia
25 years ago today Sadaam Hussein’s elite tank troops crossed the border and attacked the coastal town of Kafji, twelve kilometres into Saudi Arabia. This was a major incursion, by his 1st and 5th...
25 Years Ago Today: Iraq Floods Oil into Gulf
On 25th January 1991, Iraq opened the dockside taps of Kuwait’s Sea Island coastal oil refinery, emptying millions of gallons of crude oil into the Persian Gulf. Read more in my revised “Forgotten Voices...
IF TRUMP FAILS…?
Trump’s victory polarised everybody. But if Trump fails, even the delight of his most diehard critics will regress to a worse upset. Trumpist delight is little reported in mainstream media. Instead we see rallies of the enraged claiming...
The Lethality of Counter Terrorism Compared with War
Some people claim 2016 was a dreadful year. Not so for Britain’s military folks, as 2016 one of only two exceptional years in which no British Service man or woman was killed in action since the...
Cowardly Political Prosecutions of Old Soldiers
Is marching Chelsea Pensioners into Police stations to question them for what they did on the streets of Northern Ireland going to give genuine peace to this much troubled place? Many families still grieve, and...
Five Ways to Lose a Cyber War
Today’s US reactions to Russia’s alleged hacker support for the Republican election campaign show us how NOT to counter a cyber attack campaign. Don’t reveal you know you’ve been attacked. Don’t tell anybody that...
