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Larry’s Diary, Week One Hundred And Thirty Four

13th March 2022 Going Postal 0

Monday Good morning all, another week and the war in Ukraine continues with Bozzie still running around like a maniac. I saw Putin on TV yesterday and he looks different, has he put on weight? [more…]

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Ukraine’s Javelin, NLAW and TB-2

3rd March 2022 Always Worth Saying 0

Javelin Javelin is an infrared (ie heat-seeking) guided anti-tank missile system. A previous generation of anti-tank missiles were wire-guided via a ‘semi-automatic command to line of sight’ (or SACLOS) system where the operator had to [more…]

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Is this what is happening in Ukraine ?

2nd March 2022 well_chuffed 0

One of Tucker Carlson’s guests last night (1st March) was retired Colonel Doug MacGregor, a former military advisor to the Donald and a man who wants to see the finish of the never ending wars. [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…]

America

“Some things never change like weather patterns, famines and wars, whilst others change rapidly through technology and human greed”

23rd February 2022 Going Postal 0

Claudio Grass (CG): Taken together, the moves by Russia and China, especially on the monetary front, with their plans of a gold-backed digital currency, appear to pose a direct challenge to the status quo and [more…]

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“Some things never change like weather patterns, famines and wars, whilst others change rapidly through technology and human greed”

21st February 2022 Going Postal 0

As my friends and clients know very well, but also anyone who has read any of my writings before, I always held that understanding history and geopolitics is one of the most important elements of [more…]

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Crimean War, Part Seven

27th January 2022 Going Postal 0

In 1954, as the centenary of the end of the Crimean War approached, my uncle John Alldridge produced a series of articles for the Manchester Evening News which vividly described that campaign. In this article, [more…]

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War Never Works

27th January 2022 Godfrey Bloom 0

Perhaps I should say in W S Gilbert style ‘well hardly ever’. When struggling for a theme for my graduation strategy thesis for at the Royal College of Defence Studies I felt a suitable title [more…]

19th Century

Crimean War, Part Six

20th January 2022 Going Postal 0

In 1954, as the centenary of the end of the Crimean War approached, my uncle John Alldridge produced a series of articles for the Manchester Evening News which vividly described that campaign. In this article, [more…]

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