World views from the author of First with the News, a memoir of life on the front line

Wednesday, 10 November 2021

Never mind COP26, it's all sleaze sleaze sleaze

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The media can be merciless. Boris Johnson held a press conference at COP26 to highlight what he sees as the successes during the climate-cha...
Tuesday, 9 November 2021

US Army ups the ante in Europe versus Russia

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A deactivated US Army Cold War artillery unit in Germany which used to host intermediate-range nuclear missiles targeting Russia has now bee...
Monday, 8 November 2021

A US Navy supercarrier in the middle of a Chinese desert

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The Chinese military has built a huge target on a desert firing range for its latest anti-ship ballistic missiles which is in the shape of...
Sunday, 7 November 2021

China's military marches on

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For years the Pentagon has been predicting and warning about China's military modernisation advances but without any real official conce...
Saturday, 6 November 2021

US Marines go for old heads as well as jarheads

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The US Marine Corps is to start recruiting older men and women with other career skills instead of focusing only on the traditional meth...
Friday, 5 November 2021

Guantanamo, Biden's forever 9/11 legacy

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President Biden has found himself in a legal and security “quagmire” in his attempt to close the Guantanamo Bay detention camp, US sourc...
Thursday, 4 November 2021

The US drone killing of an Afghan family in Kabul was just bad luck

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After an investigation of the drone strike on a car in Kabul soon after the horrific suicide bombing at the Hamid Karzai airport in August, ...
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Veteran Fleet Street reporter, former defence editor, war correspondent and Pentagon correspondent for The Times
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