The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue 61 (Summer 2011) FREE
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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: […]

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. 62 or 63 22 contact with Colin Wallace. Because the scandal has never been properly examined officially, the story keeps cropping-up. The latest instalment is […]

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 […]

The view from the bridge

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[PDF file]: […] right-wing groups: the Paneuropean Union, the On which see for example . 74 Drones are merely remotely controlled, lightweight fighter-bombers, carrying small payloads. 75 76 A Hellfire missile costs upwards of $100,000. 77 A partial biography is at . 27 bases.74 Teacher began this in an essay in Lobster 17 (’Brian Crozier, the Pinay […]

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. 62 or 63 22 contact with Colin Wallace. Because the scandal has never been properly examined officially, the story keeps cropping-up. The latest instalment is […]

The view from the bridge

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[…] the reports I read of the shooting down by the Iranians of the Ukrainian airliner referred to the occasion in 1988 when the USS Vincennes, a guided- missile cruiser of the United States Navy, shot down Iran Air Flight 655 killing, 290 people. Which led to the Lockerbie bombing . . . . Not […]

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