Why don’t the people of Northern Ireland protest against these attempts to prosecute British Army pensioners? Apart from the injustice, it risks destabilising a fragile peace? So here’s why they should: We’re told the Republican community in Northern Ireland require justice for what they believe to have been crimes committed by British soldiers. These prosecutions […]
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San Diego’s Coronado Island is home to one of the world’s most elite special force units, the US Navy Seals. They recently unveiled a life-size statue called “The Naked Warrior”, commemorating the dedication and sacrifice of Seals over the past 70 years. Initially, they wore normal combat uniforms not wet suits, but as the need for swimming
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Sunday, 29 November 2015 The UK Opposition Leader Jeremy Corbyn’s logic and actions so far in saying that the case for bombing Syria has not yet been made, are correct. The case has not been made – as I will explain. This is effective Opposition. But further action is required on his part – and that of
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Senor Victor Radazzo, the former head of intelligence for the Argentinian Federal Police, has been tracking secret Special Forces battles that took place during the Falklands War in mainland Argentina. He has photographs of graves and the bones of dead British soldiers, plus this photograph below, which he says is of some of the SAS
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Do civil servants calculate the cost of looking after veterans when they give their “estimates” of the costs of doing things? The official line is that British veterans are looked after by the NHS. Right – so the NHS should develop specialist burns and multiple amputee wards all over the country, and nationwide chain of
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VwvUJhvUqE Colgate University begins work on the relative effectiveness of aerial drone surveillance equipment, against unskilled “terrorists” equipped only with mobile phones. Their ‘experiment’ used students who’d been given several weeks to work out how to use the technology, and “terrorist” students given no planning opportunities, who’d arrived with just their mobile phones and a commercially available
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Leigh Day and Co have made a lot of money out of suing British soldiers on behalf of Iraqis. As a result, the British Army risks becoming even more risk averse; and why should it’s young officers and NCOs have to worry about being sued years afterwards for doing their duty? “Torture Report: war is
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Using military force requires considerable thought beforehand. Planning for afterwards doesn’t seem to be part of the USA’s war-fighting approach. The Americans invaded Iraq with no plan for rebuilding the country, and so created what seems to be a failed state. How long after withdrawal will it take for Afghanistan to be re-taken by the Taliban –
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TIME and other US news outlets are trying to present Russian people as believing all the various internet nonsense stories that incidents like the Malaysian Airlines tragedy invariably create. That MH17 was loaded with dead bodies in Amsterdam and the pilots parachuted out; that Putin was flying over the same area in his private plane (and
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The big danger with ISIS is if ordinary people take them seriously. It’s clear that the radicalisation of their followers is crude and extreme; even Osama Bin Laden urged them to temper their ruthlessness. Rightly he said this would turn the tide of ground-level Suuni support against them. The much-touted Islamist threat to Western democracies depends
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