The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue 61 (Summer 2011)

[PDF file]: […] (2010), purports to be a memoir of the MRF period. As to its veracity, I have no idea. 13 For details see the case of Fallujah in Iraq discussed at . 14 15 Wilson’s letter with the links therein can be read at . 6 Catholics. The response of the Army and police was […]

Counterinsurgency: Exposing the Myths of the New Way of War by Douglas Porch

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014)

[PDF file]: […] us, ‘in the classrooms of the Naval Postgraduate School where I teach company and field grade US and international officers’. Here he encountered officers newly returned from Iraq and Afghanistan who were ‘not only unsettled by their experiences in these countries, but also persuaded that the hearts and minds counterinsurgency doctrines they were despatched […]

The Field of Fight: How We Can Win the Global War Against Radical Islam and Its Allies by Lt. General Michael T Flynn and Michael Ledeen

Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017)

[PDF file]: […] credit to General Stanley McChrystal. ‘Pattern Analysis’ was the way forward and McChrystal was ‘the principal driver of this revolutionary intelligence system’. To fight the insurgency in Iraq, they had to put together ‘a million-piece puzzle’ with ‘no box top to look at to help us’. Intelligence and the effective use of it were […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] not purely a matter of self-interest. As a candidate, he often railed against the foreign policies of his predecessors, Democrat and Republican alike — in particular the Iraq war, a debacle that was inseparable from the failures of the intelligence community. After it was reported in December 2016 that the C.I.A. had concluded that […]

Trump, the US Military and the American Empire

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)

[PDF file]: […] involved at the highest level in running America’s Empire, from the Battles of Fallujah to commanding US Central Command (CENTCOM) that covered some twenty countries including both Iraq and Afghanistan. While his credentials as a servant of US Imperialism are impeccable, to give him his due, when he was first contacted by Vice President […]

Hope & Despair: Lifting the lid on the murky world of Scottish politics by Neil Findlay and But What Can I Do?: Why politics has gone so wrong, and how you can help fix it by Alastair Campbell

Lobster Issue 86 (2023)

[PDF file]: […] then the powerful Downing Street Director of Communications and Strategy, enjoying an unprecedented influence over civil servants, Cabinet ministers and Labour MPs. He stood down after the Iraq invasion in 2003 but became Labour’s communication director for the 2005 general election. In the 2019 one Campbell canvassed for former Liverpool Labour MP and director […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] Mail from an Iranian defector,2 4 matches precisely what I was shown in a secret intelligence report in the FCO just around the time of the first Iraq war – that a Syrian terrorist group was responsible acting on behalf of Iran. It was decided that this would be kept under wraps because the […]

Dirty Wars by Jeremy Scahill

Lobster Issue 67 (Summer 2014)

[PDF file]: […] secret force in the US national security apparatus’. It only went public after the killing of Osama Bin Laden. Scahill explores JSOC’s record during the occupation of Iraq. Here the US Army found itself fighting a full-blown insurgency which, for a while, actually looked capable of making the American position untenable. The scale of […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 67 (Summer 2014)

[PDF file]: […] Daily Mail from an Iranian defector,25 matches precisely what I was shown in a secret intelligence report in the FCO just around the time of the first Iraq war – that a Syrian terrorist group was responsible acting on behalf of Iran. It was decided that this would be kept under wraps because the […]

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