The view from the bridge

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[PDF file]: […] Army had 170 divisions, but without realising that only one third were combat-ready. the West also over-estimated the number of Soviet intercontinental ballistic missiles. In reality the “missile gap” in favour of the Soviet Union never existed; the West had more long-range nuclear missiles than the Soviets.’ This is ridiculous. A ‘Pearl Harbour-like surprise […]

Britain alone The Path from Suez to Brexit by Philip Stephens

Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021) FREE

[PDF file]: […] From 1946 the UK built and successfully tested both atomic (1952) and hydrogen (1957) bombs respectively. Alongside these programmes it also commenced development of its own ballistic missile system. Named Blue Streak, this was supposed to be in service by 1965. This was very ambitious for a medium sized economy; it took France 15 […]

The view from the bridge

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[PDF file]: […] accepted that detente with the Soviet bloc was established and the ‘hot’ Cold War of previous decades was over. (Arguably it had been over since the Cuba missile crisis.) In this context IRD was a Cold War anachronism. Crozier and his ilk never believed in detente and thought that, if the Red Menace was […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] Army had 170 divisions, but without realising that only one third were combat-ready. the West also over-estimated the number of Soviet intercontinental ballistic missiles. In reality the “missile gap” in favour of the Soviet Union never existed; the West had more long-range nuclear missiles than the Soviets.’ This is ridiculous. A ‘Pearl Harbour-like surprise […]

The Crimes Of Empire: Rogue Superpower and World Domination by Carl Boggs

Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Destiny In weapons of mass destruction (WMD), the U.S. ‘remains by far the biggest champion’. WMD falls under the following treaties: Nuclear Non Proliferation Treaty (NPT), Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty (ABMT), Chemical 2 See for a revealing interview with Josh Stieber, a former soldier in the company which attended the dead and wounded in the […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] accepted that detente with the Soviet bloc was established and the ‘hot’ Cold War of previous decades was over. (Arguably it had been over since the Cuba missile crisis.) In this context IRD was a Cold War anachronism. Crozier and his ilk never believed in detente and thought that, if the Red Menace was […]

A Classless Society: Britain in the 1990s by Alwyn W. Turner

Lobster Issue 66 (Winter 2013) FREE

[PDF file]: […] canapés, nobody was talking about Iraq….The only comment I have heard anyone make about the bombardment is how amusing would be the conjunction of a Tomahawk cruise missile and Richard Branson’s balloon.’ In August 1999, a boatload of celebrities was ferried to Liberty Island for the launch of Tina Brown’s new magazine Talk. According […]

Roswell, the CIA and Dr Edgar Mitchell

Lobster Issue 77 (Summer 2019) FREE

[PDF file]: Roswell, the CIA and Dr Edgar Mitchell Garrick Alder In response to an inquiry made by one of the twelve NASA astronauts to have walked on the Moon, the CIA prevented a future CIA Deputy Director from revealing the truth about the so-called ‘Roswell Incident’. The truth about the supposed crash of an extraterrestrial spacecraft […]

The view from the bridge

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[PDF file]: […] left by rockets fired – NATO alleges – from inside Russia into Eastern Ukraine.24 Yet neither NATO nor US intelligence has released any images of the anti-aircraft missile system – what, a hundred? two hundred? times as big as one of those scorch marks – which it is claimed was used to shoot down […]

Pegasus: The Story of the World’s Most Dangerous Spyware

Lobster Issue 86 (2023) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] weapon. Because of the invisibility of malware it will be less accountable and, as we’ve seen with NSO, it will be given special treatment politically. Unlike a missile, this is an area of production which is continually evolving, whose current status for obvious reasons must always be kept under wraps. It forms part of […]

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