Would President Obama stand by allowing left wing revolutionaries to force the Mexican government out of office? What would he do if it looked like this was going to lead to civil disorder or war; and then imagine his reaction if there was a large enclave of English-speaking, pro-Americans on the Mexico side of the […]
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It’s pretty obvious that not many people understand the facts of this Crimean crisis. Our ‘expert’ foreign correspondents are either being bulldozed into writing nonsense by their sensation-seeking editors, or are as naïve and ignorant as their writing makes them look. Obama is stuck in a Cold War time warp, aided and abetted by the
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Obama’s silly talk of intervention in Crimea, and Kerry’s blatherings in Kiev are so ignorant that one wonders if there’s some hidden and terribly clever agenda that will emerge later. Sadly I think not. All this serves only to underline our powerlessness. Furthermore, there’s no way the West will give the Ukraine government
Can Obama really be so ignorant? Read More »
I’ve been posting SITREPs for a bar restaurant The Watering Hole on the beach at Perranporth, as terrible storms and high tides assail the West Country; while at the same time my son Will has fun on Dartmoor and Woodbury Common on the All Arms Commando Course. When I was in Commando Forces, back in
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The MoD have always been unwilling to acknowledge that military service can have adverse effects on people. Their preferred message follows those pumped out by military recruitment campaigns: “Be the Best”, “thousands of jobs available”, in “hundreds of different careers”. Today The Royal British Legion TRBL launches a survey of Service-related hearing problems. It’s hardly
The MoD Really Must Start Caring for its People – NOW Read More »
Deciding when you’ve won a battle is hard enough. Once upon a time, this was decided by Heralds from both sides, who argued it out then the combatants’ leaders agreed to the decision. If a King is killed, that’s a definite result, which might decide who wins the actual war. These days it’s not so
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Neuroscience frightens me. Thinking about the processes within the 3.5lb lumps of tofu that allow us to think about ourselves is to question the reality of our flickering self-awareness. It makes me feel vertiginous, like staring into the infinity of images you see when looking into a mirror that’s reflecting another mirror behind it. We
Neuroscience, Memory and Art Read More »
Being followed isn’t nice no matter who you are – and can be the beginning of a crime in which you are the victim. You have to trust your instincts in deciding if this is the case, and it’s much better to err on the side of caution – and assume the worst. The earlier
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So, in Sergeant Alexander Blackman’s ill-fated, video’d patrol, what was going on? Sadly all we know about now, after much investigation and even more nonsense in the media and blogosphere, are the defensive posturings of the various factions that this has affected. None of it is helpful. The Court Martial’s official legal line that murder
“Marine A”: are we too flakey with liberal confusion to support our own people? Read More »
One worst-case possibility in the “Sergeant A” Afghanistan murder trial, is that the patrol were trying to make a snuff movie. The puerile taped dialogue sounds that way. But that’s looking at it from a Forces’ PR perspective, as this could have got Sergeant A off the murder charge… The guy could have been dead,
Sergeant A – headcams and the Snuff Movie defence Read More »