Defence of the Realm

Friday, 24 October 2014

Afghanistan: admissions of failure

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Suddenly in the news again is Afghanistan, with the BBC trailing its programme , "The Lion's Last Roar", to be shown on BBC...
Wednesday, 3 September 2014

Defence: remembering everything, learning nothing

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With only the tiniest tip of a huge iceberg poking out into the public domain, we learn from  the BBC  and others that the British gov...
Tuesday, 19 June 2012

Playing politics

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Edward Leigh – he of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) – is at it again, his committee this time reporting on the ill-starred Type 45 Des...
Wednesday, 7 March 2012

Warrior down

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Six British soldiers were missing and believed to have been killed after their Warrior MICV was hit by an explosion while they were on patr...
Thursday, 9 February 2012

Never tell the whole story

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The British administration is to purchase for the RAF another Boeing C-17 strategic transport aircraft (pictured above), bringing the total...
Wednesday, 8 February 2012

Lessons unlearned

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One of the things I particularly enjoyed about Overlord , Max Hasting's book about the 1944 Normandy landings, is the way he interweave...
Tuesday, 7 February 2012

The terrible truth

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As an antidote to Sandy Gall , in the current edition of The Week , we have Crispin Black on "The terrible truth about our wasted sac...

Worse than I thought

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At the end of January, I wrote a review of a review of Sandy Gall's book on Afghanistan, War against the Taliban , a book which purport...
Saturday, 4 February 2012

Afghanistan: what to make of it all?

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A series of leaks on the progress of the war, and then a report on what appear to be plans for an expedited US withdrawal, have had the med...
Friday, 3 February 2012

A stampede of elephants

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You would have thought that, given the huge number of column inches devoted to the diverse and expensive defence procurement failures, the M...
Wednesday, 1 February 2012

Kermits get the cream

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France's Rafale has emerged as preferred bidder in a $11 billion contest to supply India with 126 fighters, says Reuters . They have u...
Saturday, 28 January 2012

He says, she says

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In a new book reviewed by the Great Sage Con Coughlin , we have Sandy Gall, the former ITN presenter, give an account of the views of the ...
Friday, 20 January 2012

A bitter taste

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The past reaches out to bring back unwelcome memories, this time the fate of Acting Corporal Marcin Wojtak , who died on 1 October 2009 whe...
Friday, 6 January 2012

Mother nature on our side

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Following the story we did on the Super Tucano three days ago , I am reminded of just how long ago it was that when we were pursuing the is...
Thursday, 5 January 2012

Agendas come first

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A small piece of news to start the New Year has had a very small band of defence analysts and journalists intrigued. This is the winner of ...
Saturday, 24 December 2011

A retreat into dogma

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Ministers, we are told are considering proposals under which the private sector could play a large role in the procurement of weapons and ...
Wednesday, 21 December 2011

A War of Choice

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Hailed by its publishers as the first book on Britain's occupation of Iraq during 2003-2009, this of course is by no means the first. T...
Tuesday, 13 December 2011

Courage is not enough

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We last looked at the ill-fated Kajaki Dam project in June last , when we concluded that it was a complete waste of time, money, effort – a...
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