Last week’s BBC Panorama programme “SAS Death Squads Exposed” raised some serious questions about the exploits of Britain’s elite special forces in Afghanistan in 2010-11. Apparently some four years in the making, the programme took a measured and appropriately inquisitive look at how Britain’s best-known special forces outfit operated and how it might have transgressedContinue reading “SAS or SS?”
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The Age of the Tank is Not Yet Over
Recent conflicts in Nagorno-Karabakh between Armenia and Azerbaijan and, more tellingly, the current war in Ukraine have brought a renewed focus on the role of the main battle tank (MBT) in modern, conventional military operations. Unfortunately, the abiding images in the public view are of heavily armed and armoured, not to say highly expensive, armouredContinue reading “The Age of the Tank is Not Yet Over”