Military history, Special Forces, modern warfare, psychology of war
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...
One of many sad things about the current Gaza disaster, is how little thinking is taking place. Especially as some “liberals’ seem now to be siding with Hamas – a brutal terrorist group. Polarisation is as...
Once the suppressive force of a regime is removed, countries like Egypt, Iraq and Afghanistan have no mechanisms to stop extremists filling the vacuum. There are worse things than dictators. The CIA’s funding of...
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...
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....
The poignant D-Day remembrance ceremonies have as ever been turned into a media circus. The BBC has trotted out the same tired old formulae they use at such events synonymous with Royal Weddings, Trooping...
I’ve already written about the problem of winning wars these days. How Do We Win the Afghan War? The secret is to get your definition of victory accepted… This is a big PR stunt for...
Among the many things conveniently forgotten in this recent Ukraine crisis, is that the EU was never going to accept Ukraine for membership. It’s too corrupt and disorganised with politicians who are down-right bad. In...
“Now I’m a prisoner of my own freedom to think and decide as I wish. I cultivate that freedom and fight for it. I may make mistakes, some huge, but one of my...
What a difference twenty years makes… We used to have intelligence experts who understood Russia, through all its turmoils from Imperial serfdom, communism, Soviet Union through to western acolyte as a Democracy-in-Waiting. But all...
