Nixon’s Thumbprint
Last August people across the United States sat in horror as they saw the Government of Afghanistan capitulate to the Taliban. The scenes of mass...
Category : Military History
#WavellReviews “The Daughters of Kobani” by Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
Once I had started the book, I struggled to put it down. The writing is engaging. It develops a personal narrative and links characters together...
The Political Economy of PIRA Terrorism
The Provisional Irish Republican Army (PIRA) enjoyed a wide portfolio for sustaining their 30-year campaign of terror. This came from a diversified supply chain that...
Honouring honour: motivation in the trenches
A little over a century ago, on 19th September 1914, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, David Lloyd George, delivered a stirring call to arms against...
#WavellReviews “Eighth Army versus Rommel” by James Colvin
The events in the desert from March 1941 to September 1942 have a wider significance, as they are probably one of the best examples of...
The Fortress of Broken Dreams: Strategic Lessons of Dien Bien Phu
The word “catastrophe” has an interesting history. When it was first introduced into the English language, it carried the meaning of sudden dramatic change; something...
#WavellReviews “How the Army made Britain a Global Power: 1688-1815” by Jeremy Black
'Military history should not be understood as a continuous logical development but rather, as unsatisfactory, temporary and incomplete attempts to address specific circumstances'...
Lessons from History: How Not to Start another War?
Abstract: This article examines significant similarities between the Sino-US rivalry today and the British-German rivalry that led to the First World War. In both cases...
Britain’s strategic failure: Suez Canal 1854–1882
By the time the Ever Given, a 1,300-foot-long cargo vessel, had been dislodged from its horizontal grounding on a bank of the Suez Canal in...
Srebrenica. Europe’s Modern Genocide
In 1993 the French General, Phillippee Morillon, entered the Bosnian town of Srebrenica and, overstepping his authority, declared that the town would never be abandoned. ...