Defence of the Realm

This is slightly old news but I have been saving it until I could do it justice. And for that, one needs a little background to be able to...

We have observed before how many journalists, on picking up a long-running story, seem to have no history – and neither time, inclination (...

Ten years into the war in Afghanistan, to call our strategy "fatally flawed" – as does Sherard Cowper-Coles in an incredibly lame...

"Richard North, the author of Ministry of Defeat and independent blogger, has passionately written that the Committee report, more t...

It's not just the British press, police and politicians that are in crisis, writes Michael White for The Guardian . "Spare a thoug...

Grudgingly, one has to acknowledge that there is a small residue of adult behaviour left in The Sunday Telegraph , it having devoted a tiny...

From the press coverage of the Snatch Land Rover litigation, on which a judgement in the High Court was handed down yesterday, you would th...

A splendidly indignant Peter Hitchens is fulminating about "Dave" doing the talking (telling the military to shut up and do the ...

Well, I watched the 13th Century Fox announcement in the Commons yesterday, and the whole of the subsequent debate. Then I read the 82-page ...

Cameron's drive to reduce the size of the Armed Forces, even to the extent that he is forcing Service chiefs to call for redundancies ,...

We saw it coming in January 2006 , but it goes back to November 1996 and the Bordeaux agreement on bilateral UK-French naval co-operation,...

The British formally ends its final military mission in Iraq today – a Navy training operation in the Gulf. Interesting how CNN marks the o...

Coalition plans to pull out of Afghanistan are being hampered by theft and fraud totalling nearly $1bn, The Independent on Sunday is tellin...

Incompetent defence chiefs cost British forces their lives in Iraq and Afghanistan by squandering nearly £1billion on armoured vehicles that...

The Times (no link) is asking questions about the cost of Dave's little adventure in Libya, and so is the Daily Mirror . Even the hand...

That diminishing band of us who celebrate having memories of slightly greater capacity than the proverbial goldfish in a bowl will recall w...

Much weeping and gnashing of teeth attends the premature retirement of the Harrier force. Those of us with longer memories, though, will ...

What is incredible is how blatant it all is, and how easily they lie through their teeth as they "insist" that this will not giv...

In The Daily Telegraph we now read that French Rafales may be using the Royal Navy carriers. You did, of course, read it here first and t...