The Vietnam War And The War On Terror
An article for the current affairs website TomDispatch by Danny Sjursen, a serving officer in the United States Armed Forces andContinue Reading
Category: Military
Turkish Military Helicopter Dodges Kurdish ATGW Missile Attack
A very narrow escape for a Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter during recent border clashes between the interventionist Turkish military andContinue Reading
The Improvised Drone Attacks On Khmeimim And Tartus, Russian Military Bases In Syria
If one accepts the official statement by the Kremlin – and a great deal of online speculation – the 5th-6thContinue Reading
From James Brokenshire To Karen Bradley, Another Forgettable Colonial Governor
So another British Secretary of State has returned to the United Kingdom for the final time after a short reignContinue Reading
Ian Paisley, Ulster Resistance And Arms From Israel
The news that the Reverend Ian Paisley, the founder of the hardline Democratic Unionist Party and several associated paramilitary groupings,Continue Reading
The British Security Service, MI5, Planned Terrorist Assassination Of Fianna Fáil Leader, Charles Haughey
The last few days has seen the publication of another tranche of heretofore secret government documents under the National ArchivesContinue Reading
Hezbollah, Barack Obama And Syria
The news and current affairs website, Politico, has published a number of claims by former government officials in the UnitedContinue Reading
Ireland And The Roman Empire, Irish Tower Houses
I thought some readers might be interested in these two links from the Mediaevalist.Net. The first one leads to aContinue Reading
The UK Conspiracy Theory To Explain The Brexit Impasse With Ireland And EU
It has become standard fare among left-wing activists and politicians in the United Kingdom to accuse the political editor ofContinue Reading
The Remembrance Day Or Enniskillen Bombing, A Warning From History
On Wednesday the 28th of October 1987 the windows of a Renault 9 car parked outside a line of garages inContinue Reading
Arm Na Poblachta, Army Of The Republic, Reveals Its Anti-Armour Capacity
The term Irish Republican Army (IRA) – or more rarely, Army of the Irish Republic – entered the modern politicalContinue Reading
Leo Varadkar’s Shamrock-And-Poppy Badge Inspired By UVF Terror Symbol
Judging by the adverse reaction on social media, I think it’s safe to say that yesterday’s perplexing decision by AnContinue Reading
The United States Has Spent $1.46 Trillion On War-Fighting Since 2001
Over the last few years I’ve published several articles examining the financial costs of the United States’ global “War onContinue Reading
Kurdish Infighting Handed Valuable Kirkuk Region To Baghdad And Tehran
Reading this report in the Guardian by Martin Chulov, the newspaper’s veteran Middle East correspondent, it seems that my analysis ofContinue Reading
The Unexpected Kurdish Retreat From Kirkuk
The precipitous withdrawal of forces nominally loyal to the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) from the oil-rich Kirkuk region of northernContinue Reading
Women Warriors In Celtic And Medieval Ireland
With the controversy over the supposed identification of the grave of a “female Viking warrior”, known to archaeologists as BjContinue Reading
Was Leather Armour A Real Thing? Not For The Celts, Romans And Vikings
I’m currently watching the Norsemen on Netflix, a pitch-black historical comedy set in a Scandinavian coastal village during the late 8thContinue Reading
Lyndon B Johnson And The Vast Resources Committed To The Vietnam War
Lyndon B. Johnson, the Texas-born vice-president who succeeded John F. Kennedy in the turbulent latter half of November 1963, has always heldContinue Reading
Did Celtic And Viking Female Warriors Exist?
The modern belief that professional female warriors were a common sight in the ancient world is a myth which owesContinue Reading
The Impossibility Of Camouflaging A Main Battle Tank In A City
The use of camouflage for military purposes, as we would understand it today, probably began in the late 18th andContinue Reading
With North Korea, Is Donald Trump Hoping For A Falkland Islands’ Solution To His Domestic Woes?
In March of 1982 the Ipsos MORI poll rating for Margaret Thatcher, the then prime minister of the United Kingdom,Continue Reading
The State-Backed Glenanne Gang, A Very British Death Squad
A former killer with the Glenanne Gang, a pro-British death squad which operated in the UK-administered north-east of Ireland duringContinue Reading
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