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Russian military thought and the Russian staff system are v different from how most Western militaries work...Gerasimov & Dunford are a very odd couple here.https://twitter.com/thejointstaff/status/1102619533427257344 The (P)Russian mil

Am grateful to the Pontifical Swiss Guard for the opportunity to visit their historic armoury at the Vatican. Here is the historic uniforms, body armour & helmets of the Swiss

The armed forces of the French Republic are one of the few genuinely national institutions. I would not overstate this retired Generals' letter - I would also not dismiss it

Small thread here as "But Secularism" is in the news and Australia has always been a pluralist not a secular nation. We share the British Crown & most of our

At the moment the best spin on the Australian Vaccines (non) rollout is that, statistically speaking, it has been so slow that few people have been put at whatever risk

On this day in 1963, the US President, John F. Kennedy, was assassinated in Dallas. Kennedy was a naval officer and war hero in WWII, then a Congressman and Senator.

Noting debates here over the French defeat at Dien Bien Phu (March-May 1954), it remains my position that the French loss (esp post-Korean War armistice) was a needless disaster &

There are two major Western schools or systems of law: there is the Civil Law system (also known as Roman Law) and the Common Law system (which is English law).

Suspect that the Media would have more acceptance of their prevailing narratives on the coronavirus if the various 'peaceful protests' - esp the ones ending in mass looting, riots, and

In the 1970s, the British Labour Party's bourgeois liberal wing, which would become Labour's dominant bloc under Tony Blair, found itself in league with the "Paedophile Information Exchange".https://www.dailymail.co.uk/new

As I often say here, if you look closely at the EU structure, it is the Kaiser's plan for a post-WW1 German Europe, with a weak periphery tied to a

Not just rural but all post offices and public libraries should be defended by anyone wanting to conserve the nation state. They are vital gathering places esp in country areas.