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20th Century
Desert Mystery: “Letters from a Feldgrau”, Part One
My previous series of articles (“Letters from Afrika”) was based on the “FeldPost” letters from Hans Walden, a driver in the Afrika Korps, to his pen-friend Hildegard Bronnold back in Germany. This new series of [more…]
21st Century
Army Procurement’s ‘Strike’ Cul-de-Sac
General Sir Nick Carter, former Chief of the Defence Staff of the United Kingdom between 2018 and 2021, championed a strategic concept known as ‘Strike’ as part of his vision for modernising the British Army. [more…]
America
Law of Nations Citizenship, Not Anchor Babies
The American Civil Liberties Union has been a primary litigant in challenging President Trump’s position that the offspring of illegal immigrants into the United States do not acquire US citizenship. ACLU Immigrants’ Rights Project Deputy [more…]
America
Conspiracy Theories
Elon Musk’s all new singing and dancing AI system is called Grok3 and it is available free in Beta form. I decided to ask it one of the old chestnuts. Did the CIA invent the [more…]
Animals
Larry’s Diary, Week Two Hundred And Sixty-Nine
Monday Good morning, people. Surprise, surprise, it’s damp and gloomy once again in Downing Street, and that’s not only outside Number 10. Inside, we have a wet, rather than damp, PM, and he is very [more…]
20th Century
It’s Not 1939, It’s 1950
It’s 1939 all over again! Or is it? Perhaps it’s 1950. A date we can be certain of is 2014 when, as Kiev tipped towards the EU and NATO, Moscow-backed Russian separatists prised parts of [more…]
America
America
Summary of U.S.-Russia Negotiations Over Ukraine
My “The US and Russia will negotiate a peace deal. Ukraine will be carved up. The EU will be told to do one.” is a pretty good summary but short of articles I wondered how [more…]