Friday, 8 July 2005

Who gives a rat's bottom?

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If the media had managed to tear itself away from the Live8 crap for even a second this week, they might have noticed that a junior ministe...
Wednesday, 29 June 2005

Europeanisation by stealth

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In July 2003, the Defence Procurement Agency of the UK Ministry of Defence announced that the BAE Systems Land Systems' (formerly Alvis)...
Friday, 17 December 2004

Join up the dots…

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It was in the air before this Blog started, when on 5 April, defence ministers of the EU member states agreed in Brussels to continue with t...
Friday, 12 November 2004

Reflections on Fallujah

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Despite the anti-war rhetoric, the dire warnings of a "quagmire" and the predictions of a bloodbath for the US troops, militarily ...
Tuesday, 9 November 2004

Cheap tanks, but no bargain?

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Hot on the heels of the announcement of a new " triple alliance " between Spain, Germany and France, yesterday Schröder was in Nor...
Wednesday, 3 November 2004

Air wars

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Despite the agreement of the EU member states to start accession negotiations with Turkey, a tense situation still exists between Greece and...
Tuesday, 19 October 2004

Decision time on the Special Relationship

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Tomorrow, I will be giving a presentation in London with the above title, subtitled: "How military technology is forcing Britain to cho...
Thursday, 29 July 2004

FRES – the political implications

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Following our Blog  on Hoon’s wonder-child, the "Future Rapid Effects System" (FRES), further study and discussion has brought to ...
Wednesday, 28 July 2004

Another blunder of Eurofighter proportions

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There was something particularly revealing about Javier Solana's comments ( recorded in this Blog ) that "the US must treat the Eur...
Monday, 26 April 2004

Mr Eurofighter

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Heseltine speaks out It was inevitable that they would drag him out of semi-retirement to make the case for "Europe". Yet it says...