Drone Warfare Tips The Balance In Armenian-Azerbaijani Conflict
Very few people would argue against the importance of air superiority in modern conventional warfare. From the bocage of NormandyContinue Reading
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Saudi Killers Listened To Music As They Butchered Jamal Khashoggi
The horrific slaughter of the Saudi journalist-turned-exile Jamal Khashoggi by a group of assassins dispatched by Riyadh to Istanbul isContinue Reading
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
Where Have All The Liberal Muslims Gone?
Offended by my refusal to see all adherents of Islam as knife-wielding jihadists an exasperated American acquaintance of mine once asked me,Continue Reading
Erdoğan To Emerge From Turkey’s Failed Military Coup Stronger Than Ever
The apocryphal Chinese curse, “May you live in interesting times“, springs to mind when reviewing the turbulent events of theContinue Reading
The Tangled Politics Of The Iraqi Kurdistan Region
A fair degree of simplistic thinking exists in the Western news media and political classes when it comes to the position ofContinue Reading
Turkey’s Invasion Of Northern Iraq
The left-leaning blog, Moon Of Alabama, has published a number of insightful articles in recent days on a serious military escalation in the MiddleContinue Reading
Aylan Kurdi And The Heavy Hand Of History
It some ways it is a terrible comment upon the calibre of our political leaders that the harrowing images of a young Syrian KurdishContinue 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
Kurdish Factionalism Gives Turkey And IS The Advantage
Western journalism loves to simplify things for readers and audiences at home which is why so much nonsense gets writtenContinue Reading
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