The view from the bridge

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[…] sea blockade of Yemen’ ‘Revealed: Hundreds of Saudi and Gulf military personnel trained in Britain as Yemen war continues’ ‘Exclusive: British government breaks inspection rules at Scottish missile factory supplying Saudi air war in Yemen – its fourth breach’ ‘Exclusive: Why Britain wanted to “kill” a United Nations ban on mercenaries’‘Revealed: UK government broke […]

Hollow Hegemony

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[…] Africa Command (AFRICOM)? 10 If ‘international policy-making in the post-Cold War era an idealised projection of the western self’, how does the Predator drone firing the Hellfire missile into a wedding party in Afghanistan fit into this? Nothing the author discusses seems to me to deal with the reality of the greatest and most […]

The USA, China and a new Cold War?

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020) FREE

[PDF file]: […] of Vietnam, Malaysia and the Philippines. This has been accompanied by significant investment in naval and air power, including the construction of an aircraft carrier, short range missile systems and fighter jets. All this has fed anxieties that Chinese efforts to develop a 7 Woodward p. 3 8 Woodward p. 31 Loyd Eskildson, ‘2027: […]

The devil has all the best songs: reflections on the life and times of Simon Dee

Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Atomic Weapons Research Establishment. Orford Ness had a very extensive array of Over the Horizon radar antennae that were used to track Soviet communications and monitor Soviet missile tests. The pirate station could, therefore, have been either interfering with this work or listening in to it on behalf of the eastern bloc. Page 30 […]

View from the bridge

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[…] source of the Soviets’ belief that LBJ was involved in the assassination. One possibility is Robert Kennedy, who got to know Soviet diplomatic personnel during the Cuban Missile Crisis. 29 Available from . 9 30 Twixt lip and cup (or something) A classic of the headline–and–text–differing genre was on the Daily Mail site of […]

View from the bridge

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[…] source of the Soviets’ belief that LBJ was involved in the assassination. One possibility is Robert Kennedy, who got to know Soviet diplomatic personnel during the Cuban Missile Crisis. 29 9 together the fragments of information then available about the Economic League. Thirty years later Hughes has had another crack at it. In the […]

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