Lá Lúghnasa Agus Diarmaid Ó Donnabháin Rossa
A belated happy Lá Lúghnasa to one and all as we celebrate the traditional harvest festival marking the commencement of the third quarterContinue Reading
Category: Military
Vice News On The Fianna Éireann And RSF
The pioneering US current affairs website Vice News has just published a short documentary examining the Fianna Éireann, the youthContinue Reading
The Hooded Men, British Torture-Centres In Ireland
The Irish Times has a laudably detailed article examining the historic issue of the “Hooded Men”: Irish citizens detained by theContinue Reading
British Spies In The IRA, Myth Versus Reality
Just a quick heads-up for those who have access to the series “Twentieth Century British History” from the Oxford Journals.Continue Reading
Israel On The Road To Self-Destruction
It is somewhat dispiriting, for those on the progressive left, to watch Israel’s continued slide into sectarian and racial totalitarianism,Continue Reading
The INLA Show Of Strength In The City Of Derry
Following the recent death of Peggy O’Hara, the veteran political activist in the city of Derry, the Irish Republican Socialist Party andContinue Reading
Questioning The Media Myth Of The Moderate Orange Order
Another July 12th round of rioting, street disturbances, house-burnings and general displays of sectarianism, racism and straight-forward fascism. Of course someContinue Reading
A Sordid Tale Of British Gunmen, Bombers And Policemen
In his final exploration of the evidence sourced for the RTÉ television documentary “Collusion”, a feature-length programme examining the links between the UK military and intelligence services garrisonedContinue Reading
Shoot-To-Kill, Britain’s Summary Executions And Assassinations In Ireland
Sometimes I do wonder if the dozens of Irish and British journalists who spent most of their careers loftily dismissingContinue Reading
The Reorganisation Of The IRA In The Early 1970s
Irish journalist and author Ed Moloney, now resident in New York, has an interesting article over on his Broken ElbowContinue Reading
Ukraine’s Bilingual Nation
The European version of Politico, the American news and current affairs website, has a short article by Timothy SnyderContinue Reading
The United States, War Junkie
The always excellent Tom Dispatch has an insightful article by William Astore, a former US air force lieutenant colonel, on whatContinue Reading
It Pays To Be Adam But Rarely Eve
To be a woman in a world where some men have cast aside the necessary bonds of civilization is a dreadful fate indeed.Continue Reading
Kurdish Victories In Syria And Iraq Make For Nervous Turks
Just as things were beginning to look up for the various Kurdish factions fighting the Islamic State in Syria and Iraq, reports out ofContinue Reading
Supporting The Kurds
Malcolm Harris in the New Republic focuses on the great anomaly of the conflict in Syria and Iraq: the United States’Continue Reading
The British Army’s “Tuzo Plan” Of 1972
Over on the Broken Elbow blog the veteran Irish journalist Ed Moloney has a detailed examination of the British Army’sContinue Reading
Substituting Numbers For Results In Iraq And Syria
From a report last week by Reuters, republished throughout the “Western” news media: “More than 10,000 Islamic State militants haveContinue Reading
The Battle Of Pettigo And Belleek, May To June 1922
The Battle of Pettigo and Belleek in the summer of 1922 was the largest military engagement between the Irish Republican ArmyContinue Reading
Britain’s Army Of Serial Killers In Ireland
In the late 1980s and early ‘90s British terrorist groups in the north-east of Ireland began to justify their attacksContinue Reading
The Fallen Of World War II
The “Fallen of World War II” is a data-driven feature examining the human cost of the Second World War, measuring the losses incurred to otherContinue Reading
Weapons Of The Irish Revolution
I thought these military-related articles would interest quite a few ASF readers (those of you who haven’t discovered the piecesContinue Reading
Pat Finucane, The Assassination Of An Irish Lawyer By British Terrorists
More on the slow unravelling of the secrecy and deception which obscured most aspects of Britain’s counter-insurgency war in Ireland from the lateContinue Reading
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