28 Oct 2023
by Jim Rose
in defence economics, laws of war, war and peace
Tags: Gaza Strip, Israel, war against terror, World War II
Mild-Mannered Avenger: “The Nazis entered this war under the rather childish delusion that they were going to bomb everyone else, and nobody was going to bomb them. At Rotterdam, London, Warsaw, and half a hundred other places, they put their rather naïve theory into operation. They sowed the wind, and now they are going to…
Reaping The Whirlwind.
14 Oct 2023
by Jim Rose
in defence economics, laws of war, war and peace
Tags: Afghanistan, Iraq
‘You have the watches, but we have the time.’ (Taliban saying, possibly apocryphal, page 93) Summary This is a quite mind-blowing, jaw-dropping analysis of the incompetence, ignorance, narrow-mindedness, bad planning, profligacy, bureaucratic in-fighting, politicking, terrible leadership, lack of strategy, appalling mismanagement and ineptitude which characterised the British Army campaigns in Iraq (2003 to 2009) and […]
Losing Small Wars: British Military Failure in the 9/11 Wars by Frank Ledwidge, second edition (2017)
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