Military history, Special Forces, modern warfare, psychology of war
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...
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...
Do you remember back to when you wanted to ride a motorcycle, but your parents wouldn’t let you because they thought it was too dangerous? You watched every passing motorcycle with envy, imagining how...
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....
TS Elliot measured his life in coffee spoons. It seems these days we express ours in terms of kittens. This use of irrelevance to give meaning to life reminds me of a woman who...
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...
