Officials from BAE Systems, Leonardo and Thales sit on advisory committees that oversee the ‘strategic direction’ of academic departments
From Integration of Threat to Differentiation of Strategies
President Trump was presented with a great opportunity on Saturday to take the off-ramp from his war on Iran. After threatening Iran that “a whole civilization will die tonight,” Trump managed to get a two week pause in the war with the intervention of the Pakistani government.
Britain’s Ministry of Defence prepared for war with Russia after expanding Nato – 26 years before Moscow invaded Ukraine
Trump and Israel will make sure the war against Iran continues
I was once a schoolteacher in England, where it was drummed into us during training that it was wise to join a teachers’ union, lest one of the students, in revenge for poor grades, falsely accuse us of impregnating them behind the bike sheds during lunchtime. But which particular outfit to join? Certainly not the NUT (National Union of Teachers), the nation’s largest and most militant teaching union, whose name was apt: the far-left group contained more nuts than a constipated squirrel.
The finest military modern thinker, Maj Gen. J.F.C. Fuller, stated that the true object of war is not victory but the peace that follows the conflict. By that standard, the Trump-Netanyahu war against Iran and Lebanon is an embarrassing political failure and an economic disaster.
Trump, in his regime’s serial dishonesty, has reshaped the conventions of American diplomacy in the Israeli fashion. He has turned the U.S. into the same sort of pariah — never to be trusted.
