War on Terror Inc. by Solomon Hughes

Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010)

[PDF file]: […] better than the public; in this case, that the private sector could implement change faster than the state, could shake-up the rigid bureaucracies of the Pentagon and MOD to create the new, dynamic forces for the rapidly changing strategic environments (etc etc, boilerplate, boilerplate). And hey, if we make a shit-load of money in […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] And – who knows? – maybe some of Ware’s earlier journalism will be examined. Two examples of this have been covered in Lobster: his recycling of the MoD lies about Colin Wallace and his portrait of the politics of Brent, described in Simon Matthews’ ‘Baa baa white sheep’.132 My guess is that, faced with […]

Running Rings

Lobster Issue 90 (2025)

[PDF file]: […] that the likes of AWS will be seen as so indispensable to GCHQ that it becomes as integral to its operations as BAE Systems is to the MoD, with all the monopolistic power that entails, with the potential for cost overruns and cosy relations etc. The growing dependence on Cloud services and the potential […]

South of the border

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)

[PDF file]: […] Undertakings and Agreements under the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005’ (a.k.a. guidelines for engaging criminal informants) runs to over 14,000 words. or 33 ‘Secret British MoD Files Record MRF’s Failure to Protect Freds’ ’ or 34 A good introduction to the MRF can be found in chapter 2 of Martin Dillon’s The […]

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