I still add updates here - partly as this thread continues to get many visits (754k till today).
Today I received an article by Dr. Robert Lyman, ex-UK Army and now a military historian on the...
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I still add updates here - partly as this thread continues to get many visits (754k till today).
Today I received an article by Dr. Robert Lyman, ex-UK Army and now a military historian on the...
On 18th October 2023 the Centre for Geopolitics, Cambridge University, England held an event in which Dan Kaszeta talks to Donatas Kupciunas about his book: The Forest Brotherhood: Baltic Resistance...
A 2023 update. An article by a British academic and the title is IMHO is simply wrong, the deployment was not a secret. See:...
A new article on the early years of the insurgency by Dr. Simon Anglin, KIngs College London War Studies:...
This thread still attracts attention and yesterday on another website for WW2 history a veteran of the conflict was the topic, Arthur Robert BROCKLEHURST, a UK contract officer who served in Oman for...
I occasionally return here and had forgotten posting this seven years ago. The research has progressed and to date I cannot identify any American military role in Setif during these events. Instead I...
A summary of the film by a British commentator after a group watched the film:
Back to the past and distant past, an interesting commentary on the film 'the Battle of Algiers': https://newlinesmag.com/review/a-movie-stoked-political-movements-across-the-globe/
I know a review of Melson's book is due in the journal Small Wars & Insurgencies.
Awaiting my attention and time is a book published in Zimbabwe, in 2020 and available via Bush War Books in South...
It took a long time to completely read Jacqueline Hazelton's book; the chapter on Oman, Dhofar is pgs. 81-105, with 220 footnotes, so is probably the most comprehensive account of the campaign.
Thanks to Jon Custis for spotting that Charles Melson has written 'Fighting for Time: Rhodesia's Military and Zimbabwe’s Independence', which has been published in the UK and USA by Casemate...
A new book includes Dhofar as an example of how COIN works; I listened to an online talk last week:
The publisher's website is:...
Last week the ‘Daily Telegraph’ published an obituary for Nick Downie, who had fought in Dhofar, first with the SAS, then for Oman. It is alas behind a pay wall, so I cite just a few passages:
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Post 24 refers to an article 'The United Kingdom's last hot war of the Cold War: Oman, 1963-75' by De Vore and has been made available by the author. Contact davidbfpo for a copy via PM. Alas too...
See: https://www.part-time-commander.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Combat_Jump_Record_03.07.2013.pdf
Or: http://macvteam162.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Combat-Jump-Record-03.07.2013.pdf
From the FBI, published in July 2019 and caught this week. In summary:
Link: Homegrown Violent Extremist Mobilization Indicators, 2019 Edition
Caveat: slightly off topic. CREST is UK government...
Dr. Sam Newbery is a British academic, in this article on an Italian website (in English) who has specialised in:
Link: https://www.scuolafilosofica.com/9640/samantha-newbery
A 'Long Read' that focuses on an Anglo-American pair of researchers working in this area and sub=titled:
Link:...
A short account on an aspect missed here: 'The Black and Tans in Palestine’ – Irish connections to the Palestine Police 1922-1948. See:...
A new Journal article that has many web links and so could be useful. It ends with:
Link:...
Spotted two articles on RAF officers serving in Oman, on 'Loan Service' for two year unaccompanied tours and one covers the Dhofar War, in particular the famous attack on Mirbat Fort - which the SAS...
Yes,another article on the Abbottabad Records from the journal 'Studies in Conflict and Terrorism' by Bryce Loidot, Institute for National Strategic Studies, National Defense University, Washington,...
An interview in May 2020, available as a podcast and in a transcript. The intro states:
Link:https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/changed-my-mind-al-qaeda-bombmaker-mi6-spy/
India may finally get a Mumbai suspect:
Link:https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/06/20/former-us-businessman-face-murder-charges-mumbai-terror-attacks/?WT.mc_id=tmgliveapp_iosshare_AvgHtC7VdZz5
I recently returned to this time and topic, partly as the pandemic lock down gave me time and an article has been published in 'Durbar', the printed journal of the Indian Military History...