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I prefer the phrase 'last best hope'...!

If we were to banter, I'd recall Churchill's famous words
"America can always be trusted to do the right thing...after it has exhausted all alternatives"...

Bang on. Today's problem is a pretty average collection of decisionmakers in the political class of the West. Particularly unfortunate at this juncture of history...Remember the roll call at...

When the Cold War was raging, much of Africa was indeed riven by insurgency. And many of those insurgencies were fuelled by bad governance- expertly stoked by communist agent provocateurs and...

Now now...when Rupert and Tarquin are sober they're actually quite bright! More importantly, they have decent estates for their fat old company commander to shoot upon - so cease your Light Division...

Brother,

As most of the time, violently agreeing. I was taking issue more with some of the other comments. My bad for being less than clear.
However, with the compressed 24/7 news cycle, the...

Wilf may be right about Strategic Corporals -- but I was once a Sensuous Sergeant. It's all about the means to the end desired.. :D[/QUOTE]

Too much information! But at least you knew what you...

Isn't 'strategy' to do with the context[B[/B] of the issue, rather than its relative merits?

Therefore, a Platoon Commander thinking hard about how to destroy a Dushka firing from a compound is...