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 Armoured Divisions,with his 3rd Tank Division. Most agree that this was the start of an intended invasion of Saudi Arabia. Commanded […]
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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 Gulf War One” Kindle book. This was one of the largest oil spills in history. It was carried out (apparently) in
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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 Trump discriminates against them. But there’s little of the usual political apathy. I hope that, dodgy hairstyles apart, we’re seeing a
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 end of World War Two. The other year was 1968, just before the Northern Ireland campaign got going. This graph shows
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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 the old sectarian divisions continue. But few desire to return to the dark days of bombs, snipers and knee-capping. But there remains a
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