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

Tuesday, 30 January 2024

Deterrence isn't working any more

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The sight of an American aircraft carrier battle group steaming offshore used to be a pretty credible deterrent to any state or militia plan...
Monday, 29 January 2024

Iran is anxious to avoid a war with the US

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For all its bravado and outrageous aggression through its multiple proxy forces it likes to call the Axis of Resistance, Iran is in no posit...
Sunday, 28 January 2024

Middle East war spreading and spreading

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Three US soldiers killed and 25 injured at a remote outpost on the Jordan/Syria border! The war in the region is spreading its tenctacles. T...
Friday, 26 January 2024

Does Putin really want a world war?

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A lot of important, well-qualified people mow seem to think that Vladimir Putin is planning to invade Europe and to take on Nato, probably i...
Thursday, 25 January 2024

Kamala Harris needs to raise her profile by a magnitude of ten

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If, as seems to be true, there's a growing disaffection among young voters in the US over the venerable age of the two most likely candi...
Wednesday, 24 January 2024

Nikki Haley on a lonely path

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She's right to keep going, provided her donors stick with her, but Nikki Haley is now going to get the full force of Donald Trump's ...
Tuesday, 23 January 2024

Will Joe Biden last the course?

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The US newspapers are having a field day speculating about whether Joe Biden will stay the course and fight Trump for the presidency or step...
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Veteran Fleet Street reporter, former defence editor, war correspondent and Pentagon correspondent for The Times
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