Russian Threat: A Buckshee* Video

A meeting with video and in-person attendees was a ’hybrid’ meeting until we got used to it, and now it’s just a meeting. Thing is, combining high-intensity operations with lower-intensity operations and working across domains with covert operations and information operations … that’s just war. C…

Britannia ruled the waves by taking pains to control choke points: The Pas-de-Calais, the Strait of Gibraltar, the Suez Canal, the Bab-al-Mandeb (‘Grief’s Gate’ in Arabic), the Strait of Hormuz and the Straits of Malacca and Singapore. Recession of Empire abandoned Calais to France, Suez to Egypt…

This is being called Javier Milei’s sabre-rattling, and it’s an appropriate descriptor. A sabre is an effective weapon in skilled hands, but it’s absolutely useless at a range of 300 nautical miles. It’s not remarkable that Milei is going for the old Argentine wheeze of attacking the British bec…

There is a newly opened tender for constructing three neighbourhoods connecting part of Jerusalem Municipality which is over the Green Line to Maale Adumim, which is a Jerusalem suburb over the Green Line. For a town planning artefact this is attracting a mass of condemnation. Why? Maybe it’s be…