Team mercenary GB: Part 2 – This is the modern world

Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017) FREE

[PDF file]: […] and Nepalese.36 The last of the UK PMCs on that US Baghdad embassy list is Control Risks Group. I will not go into detail regarding the his tory of Control Risks here but simply refer the reader to the extensive detail on pages 6 and following of my previous article on PMCs.3 7 Further […]

In Spies We Trust: the story of western intelligence by Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones

Lobster Issue 66 (Winter 2013) FREE

[PDF file]: In Spies We Trust: the s tory of western intelligence Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones Oxford University Press, 2013, £20, h/b Bernard Porter Britain and America came quite late to the spying game, but by the late 20th century had come to dominate it. It is this, I suppose, that justifies the subtitle of this book, which […]

The View from the Bridge

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The USA, China and a new Cold War?

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[PDF file]: […] will become the world’s greatest economic power, in terms not just of its mass of GDP but GDP per head, by 2050.9 Tension This remarkable success s tory has not been accompanied by continuing international harmony. There has, instead, been increasing tension in relations between China and the West. Beijing’s relations with the US […]

The view from the bridge

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The Clandestine Caucus: a minor update

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[PDF file]: […] publication of Smear! Wilson and the Secret State. It continued that book’s exploration of role of the spooks in British politics, with an interest in the his tory of the Tory right triggered by the arrival of Mrs Thatcher. And I was interested in Labour Party history. (I was a member in the 80s […]

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