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Month: March 2022

20th Century

Postcard from Cyprus, 1996

2nd March 2022 Going Postal 0

By the early 1990s, computing in the Ministry of Defence was moving from huge, multi-million pound machines housed in air-conditioned rooms out into the offices on  minicomputers and personal computers running Windows. It’s hard to [more…]

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Sailing my life away, part 35

1st March 2022 Ancient Mariner 0

PREFACE The draft for this issue of SMLA was completed on Thursday 23 February 2022 and afterwards I explained in an email to the eldest of my granddaughters that to understand the Ukrainian situation one had [more…]

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The Russian Point of View

1st March 2022 Godfrey Bloom 0

Back in the 1980s my enlightened commanding officer sponsored a few of his officers to study under the enlightened Royal Military Academy Sandhurst Professor of Soviet Studies Chris Donnelly. It was an external course which [more…]

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