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 of the Colour and so on. Obama even sought to justify the war in Afghanistan by having the sheer cheek to […]
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I’ve spent time in Russia and am totally up-to-date with the intense Russian debate over this whole crisis. I am very much not a supporter of Putin – or Russian corruption. But the latter pales into insignificance compared to the corruption of Ukraine. These latest murders in Odessa are being taken very seriously in Russia,
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A UK defence minister Anna Soubry was so upset that troops are only charged £1 for a triple gin and tonic that she’s out to ban drinking in the Armed Forces. She’d ordered the drink while on a visit to the Falklands. She believes that troops should not be able to buy G&T so cheaply.
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The future reduced British Army seems likely to be able to deploy little more than half the numbers of trained soldiers it had in 1991. A Freedom of Information Act question was answered last week with figures that revealed the following: For the Army, from 1 March 2011 and 1 February 2014, over a fifth
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The MoD sponsored a Territorial Army captain, Dr Mike Martin to write a book about the war in Helmand from 1978 until now. Martin was one of only a handful of officers who’d ‘mastered’ Pashto, and he worked in Afghanistan for 6 years. Unfortunately the MoD didn’t like his conclusion that British and American efforts
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Questionable Surveys, Deaths and Lamentable Predictions During Tony Blair’s interview on the BBC Today programme this morning, I was listening for some hint of uncertainty in his views on Iraq. He’s making too much money out of his foreign affairs expertise to acknowledge that he might have made any mistakes. Blair stated that if Saddam
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Gregor Gysi is a parliamentary head of the largest lower-house opposition party in Germany – the Left Party, today attacked Angela Merkel’s support for sanctions against Russia. “They [the Ukraine revolutionaries] formed a new government….. Immediately recognized by president Obama by the EU and German government as well. Miss Merkel! The vice- prime minister, the
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I’ve been amazed at the hysterical rigidity of Western responses to President Putin’s Crimea intervention; accusations of Hitleresque moves that threaten the stability of Europe, and a crisis that could lead to World War Three. But these are the ideologues at work – the people who think only of how they can profit from the
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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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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 »