July 9, 2024

Lend Lease and Bidenesque Confusion

Britain completed repaying its Lend-Lease obligations to the United States in 2006. There is no such thing as a free lunch. Yet the Lend-Lease program cost the U.S. approximately $50 Billion USD (equivalent to about $680 Billion USD today. No chump c...

June 3, 2024

Who Killed the British Army?

In the omnipresent murky world of public-private 'consultancy' there exists a British firm called 'Capita' what is known as 'consultancy.' Large swathes of British and Irish institutions 'outsource' the jobs that ...

April 13, 2024

The Return of the Golden Kite

In ancient Japanese mythology the Golden Kite, one of the highest decorative orders of the Japanese military, was a messenger bird which enabled the Emperor Jimmu to defeat his enemies. The order was abolished in 1947 after American occupation. Yet n...

February 22, 2024

The Shadows of Munich

Recent developments suggest Putin is gaining the upper hand, not just in the Middle East but also in Ukraine. At the Munich Security Conference (Feb. 16-18), there was a kind of deja vu of Munich 1938, the time when nascent Czechoslovakia was sacrifi...

November 25, 2023

The New Front in the Gaza Conflict

A new front has opened up in the Gaza conflict. The new front is not Lebanon or the West Bank. It is a new front whereby all the traditional forms of war have ended. From the Medieval period onwards, wars were essentially conflicts between noble fami...

July 9, 2022

Putin's Library: Inside the Mind of the World's Most Dangerous Autocrat

It was Walter Benjamin who said that you could judge a man by the books he kept.  Hitler kept books of Friedrich Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, and the German nationalist Fichte. Hitler had used the Nietzschean phrases 'master race' and ...