Prompted by today SWJ book review of 'The Outpost: An Untold Story of American Valor' by Jake Tapper, Little Brown, 2012, 673 pages, I thought a link should be added, especially as the comment by...
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Prompted by today SWJ book review of 'The...
Prompted by today SWJ book review of 'The Outpost: An Untold Story of American Valor' by Jake Tapper, Little Brown, 2012, 673 pages, I thought a link should be added, especially as the comment by...
Staff Sgt Clinton Romesha gets Medal of Honor
A short BBC report, which ends with his own comment:
Link:http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-21415533
Can we learn from the Faqir of Ipi?
Yet again an Imperial (British Empire in India) lesson to be read and hat tip to the UK blogsite (again): http://defenceoftherealm.blogspot.com/2009/10/we-have-been-there-before.html
There are...
Imperial lessons
Carl cited Skeen's book and this is the short items on the "What Are you Reading' thread:
From my reading of Imperial "policing" in NWFP and FATA fixed posts were along strategic highways and at...
Revisiting mistakes
No, it appears to be a fault in many armies. British military history has many examples from the colonial e.g. Boer Wars to full scale wars, notably WW1. In a hierachical and professional structure -...
Afghan aspect
Within The Times report is this, not seen in the US reports on SWJ Blog:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/Afghanistan/article6860616.ece
I note all the reports refer to two outposts,...