The Big Winner In Afghanistan: The Opium And Heroin Trade
With the reestablishment of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan in recent days, I thought this would be a useful reminderContinue Reading
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The Afghan Withdrawal – The Inevitable Taliban Victory
I thought I would post this interesting discussion of recent events in Afghanistan published on the American politics’ podcast, TheContinue Reading
David Petraeus Defends British Army Just Days Before New Accusations Of War Crimes
The apparent support expressed by David Petraeus, the disgraced former United States Army general, for the controversial campaign in theContinue 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
The War In Afghanistan Is Lost. So Why Is The US Still Fighting It?
It is a rare thing for a conventional army to admit its military mistakes; to acknowledge that its plans, strategiesContinue Reading
Donald Trump Contemplates An Army Of Western Mercenaries To Wage War In Afghanistan
The journalist and veteran of Middle East diplomacy Alon Ben-Meir has an opinion piece in the Japan Times under theContinue Reading
The US Has Spent Hundreds Of Billions Of Dollars In Afghanistan
$117 billion. That is how much money the United States of America has spent on “rebuilding” efforts in the war-tornContinue Reading
The Massive Ordnance Air Blast Attack In Afghanistan
At 11.17 am on Saturday the 15th of June 1996 the Irish Republican Army detonated a large truck-bomb on Corporation StreetContinue Reading
The United States Has Supplied 1.4 Million Guns To Iraq And Afghanistan
The commercial value of the so-called “War on Terror” to the arms industries of the United States and the UnitedContinue Reading
Former US Intelligence Director Regrets Iraq War
The German news and current affairs magazine Der Spiegel has an informative and surprisingly forthright interview with Michael Flynn, the former director of the DefenseContinue Reading
How The United States’ Both Destroyed And Saved The Taliban
In the latter half of 2001 the United States of America, supported by Britain, and later in co-operation with a resurgent United IslamicContinue Reading
The United States, Whistling Past The Graveyard Of Empires
To consider the political, diplomatic, military and financial quagmire that Afghanistan has proved to be for the United StatesContinue Reading
Military Secrets And Scandals
For those of you interested in the performance of the United States Armed Forces over the last two decades, especiallyContinue Reading
Ireland Facilitated CIA’s Torture Porn Program
For several centuries the physical and psychological abuse of captives, male and female, old and young was something experienced by almost every generationContinue Reading
Britain’s Armed Shame
In Ireland the British separatist terrorists of the state-controlled UVF faction pose for the cameras Some time ago I publishedContinue Reading
British Soldiers, Nazi Salutes – The Story We Had First
The newspapers in Britain are currently debating the significance of images from the conflict in Afghanistan showing serving British soldiersContinue 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
Afghanistan – The Self-Defeating War
In Afghanistan the United States and its international allies have staged a formal handover of military and security control inContinue 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
Guns For Hire – From RIC To RUC
In the 1920s, following the British defeat in Ireland’s War of Independence, many serving members of Britain’ paramilitary police forceContinue Reading
An Irish-American Story
From the Irish Independent a story on Séamus Ó Fianghusa, an Irish-American soldier who is now the subject of a new documentary onContinue Reading
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