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 According to respected journalist Deborah Haynes of Sky News the UK’s Royal Air Force (RAF) has halted recruitment of white applicants in an attempt to meet their diversity targets. Apparently this has prompted the resignation of their Group Captain in charge of recruitment, which is perhaps a bit of a self-inflicted wound. The RAF hasContinue reading “CIDR -Diversity in the UK Armed Forces”

The attack and stabbing carried out on author Salman Rushdie has been condemned in the global media as an attack on freedom of speech, and rightly so. Except, predictably, in Iran, who whilst stopping short of lauding his attacker have suggested that Rushdie brought it on himself. Once again Iran finds itself at odds withContinue reading “CIDR – Iran”

w/c 22nd August 2022   I have been reading quite a lot of speculation that the longer the Russo-Ukraine war continues with little prospect of any sort of a Russian victory the more likely that Putin will resort of tactical nuclear weapons. Indeed, a recent article in the Daily Telegraph has suggested that “Britain shouldContinue reading “CIDR – Nuclear Scaremongering”

Nuclear Scaremongering “should  Britain prepare for a nuclear war”. There’s a difference between strategic nuclear weapons and tactical ones. Strategic nukes have a huge explosive potential, many times that of those dropped by the US on Japan at the end of the Second World War. Tactical nukes have a much lower yield, although still powerful,Continue reading “Crawford’s International Defence Review w/c 22nd August 2022”