Monsters From The Id
A sobering and very personal reminder from Bock the Robber of the beast that lies at the core of thatContinue Reading
Category: Military
Hyping Up A Seizure Of Weapons
Irish journalism surely loves its hyperbole. From the “Oirish” Mirror: “A large seizure of explosives and guns has put aContinue Reading
The War Inside Guantanamo
Flashes of Long Kesh in this article from Gawker on the psychological war between prisoners and guards at the infamousContinue Reading
Patterns Of War
With all the media focus on the rise of a global Big Brother via the Orwellian ambitions of the UnitedContinue Reading
Clueless – The International Press In Belfast
With so much of the news from the conflict in Syria being filtered through the International media one is struckContinue Reading
Some More WikiWar News
As a keen observer of both politics and technology I have spent the last decade and more watching the riseContinue Reading
Improvised Warfare In Syria
Two recommended reads on the conflict in Syria. The first is a photo-easy from The Atlantic highlighting the use ofContinue Reading
More Accounts Of Death Squad Britain
Veteran Irish journalist and author Ed Moloney and his colleague Bob Mitchell continue their investigations into the Military Reaction Force (MRF), a British ArmyContinue Reading
Seanchas – Irish, Scottish And Manx Mythology And Folklore
For those of you with an interest in early, middle and early modern indigenous Irish literature and post-Medieval folklore (IrishContinue Reading
Inside The IRA – 1994
How things have changed in the last 19 years – and how much they have stayed the same. In 1994Continue Reading
US Army Training Circular TC 18-01, Special Forces Unconventional Warfare
Thought some of you might be interested in this given the recent events in Libya, Syria and now Mali. TheContinue Reading
Britain’s War In Ireland – Learning The Lessons
The Irish journalist and author Finian Cunningham examines the conflict in the north-east of Ireland during the late 1960s andContinue Reading
Counter-Gangs – The Origins Of British Terrorism In Ireland
I’ve devoted considerable space on An Sionnach Fionn to cataloguing Britain’s dirty war in Ireland highlighting a wide range of evidence gatheredContinue Reading
Lessons From The First Chechen War
For military analysts like myself the two most interesting conflicts of the last twenty years have been the First Chechen War of 1994-1996Continue Reading
In Defence Of Israel
I’ve always admired the state of Israel and the Israeli people as a whole. From an Irish point of viewContinue Reading
Britain’s Irish Civil War
In my 2011 review of historian Liz Gillis’ new Irish Civil War study “The Fall of Dublin” from Mercier Press IContinue Reading
Na Fianna – A Rough Edit
Something that might interest a few of you, a rough draft of a piece on the Fianna, the early IrishContinue Reading
“An tOglach The Official Organ of the Irish Volunteers” from October 21 1921
Originally posted on Irish Election Literature:
Fascinating piece of history this , the October 21st 1921 issue of “An t-Ógláċ The Official…
Dirty Secrets Of A Dirty War
After several recent posts on An Sionnach Fionn detailing British war crimes in Ireland over the four decades of the northern conflict perhaps IContinue Reading
Britain At War – Terror In Ireland
Veteran Irish journalist and writer Ed Moloney in CounterPunch on President Obama’s continued adherence to the strategy and tactics ofContinue Reading
Former British Agent Admits Irish Citizens Were Waterboarded
I’ve written about the widespread use of torture, both physical and psychological, by the British Forces in the UK-administrated north-eastContinue Reading
History And Counter-History In Ireland – Confronting The Apologist Historians
Just a quick post to highlight Protestant Cork 1911-1926, one of the best resources I’ve seen so far on the issue of the alleged declineContinue Reading
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