War and Peace Posts
The truth about D-Day, 80 years on
Troops were fighting for democracy at home as well as abroad
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What the China-Russia axis really means for the West
The marriage of convenience between Moscow and Beijing is a product of American decline
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Could the Philippines be the spark for the next global conflict?
A row over a tiny Filipino island in the South China Sea has ramped up tensions between the US and China
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China is in crisis
Xi is strengthening his grip over his party, the military and society
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Taiwan’s future is more uncertain than ever
The fall in support for Taiwan’s anti-Beijing government will embolden Xi Jinping
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Are the Houthis dragging us toward a global trade crisis?
The attacks on Red Sea ships are having a dangerously outsized impact on the global economy
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GB News Moral Dilemma: Should the West cripple the Russian military?
James talks about the moral dilemma facing western societies over the escalating war in Ukraine
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Russia is far from defeated
A complacent West underestimates just how low the Kremlin could go
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Why Britain went to war over the Falklands
There was always more at stake than a tiny group of islands 8,000 miles away
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How many generals is Putin prepared to lose?
The loss of so many high-ranking generals is a sign of Russia’s meat-grinder militarism
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China has Taiwan on its mind, not Ukraine
Xi has little interest in getting dragged into Russia’s war
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China is playing a cynical game in Ukraine
Beijing has one eye on Kyiv, the other on Taiwan
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The forgotten history of Pearl Harbor
Japan’s attack on the US 70 years ago was not a surprise, but rather the culmination of imperial rivalry.
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Will Aukus lead to conflict with China?
Tensions were already building in the Indo-Pacific
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Is China about to invade Taiwan?
Xi Jinping is hesitant – and he has good reason to be
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The Tokyo Trial: Japan as America’s alien ally and child
How Uncle Sam browbeat the Japanese
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Hands off Taiwan!
Neither Beijing nor Washington should be meddling in Taiwanese affairs
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Our armed forces need a total overhaul
The military is far too embroiled in destructive foreign interventions to defend the country
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The Nuremberg Trials: fascism as a morality play
They reduced the historical and political horror of Nazism to an act of evil
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Battle of Britain: empires at war
On the seventieth anniversary of the Battle of Britain, Richard Overy’s account shoots down many a myth
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D-Day: beyond the myth of the Good War
Seventy-five years on, let’s reckon with what really happened
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EU militarism is nothing new
Macron’s plan for an EU army follows longstanding traditions
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After the war: India’s untold story
The Indian Army’s contribution to the Allied war effort has been downplayed for far too long
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Fascism in the colours of France
This book review, written more than 35 years ago, gives some historical clues as to why Marine Le Pen did relatively well in the French presidential elections of 2017
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New wars, new technology
James Woudhuysen joined a panel discussion entitled ‘New wars, new technology‘ at the Battle of Ideas in the Barbican, October 2015
First World War: Mainstream Histories, Liberal Forecasts
James Woudhuysen spoke on ‘World War I: Origins, and Warnings for 21st Century‘ at the Leeds Salon, June 2014
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Big trouble in the East China Sea
A row between Japan, China and Taiwan over a few small islands reveals the arbitrariness of international relations.
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When Churchill starved India
Today, as Britain seeks diplomatic links with India and as Churchill is championed as a hero of multiculturalism, Madhusree Mukerjee’s shocking account of the exploits of the Empire is well worth reading.
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Clausewitz after 9/11
The Prussian master’s brilliant analytical method in On War provides richer insights into the contemporary wars against terrorism than anything his glib critics have come up with
Read the full article...Remembering the Moscow Trials
Amid today’s craze for anniversaries, there’s one episode in history that nobody – especially on the left – wants to talk about.
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Black Book, Paul Verhoeven’s thriller about the Dutch Resistance to Nazi rule, is a cracking movie – and it raises important questions, too.
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Bin Laden and the arithmetic of war, by James Woudhuysen
Read the full article...All’s quiet on the Trafalgar front
Why the British elite won’t utter the v-word on the bicentennial of Nelson’s battle
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The debate surrounding the sixtieth anniversary of the firestorming of Dresden shows how sober analysis of history is being distorted by angst about the world today.
Read the full article...Things to come … Pelican planes
The US Army wants to be able to deploy five divisions anywhere in the world within a month, but it can’t. Boeing is trying to make this possible.
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The Spruce Goose and US Decline
If America had shown more respect for the art of product design, maybe it wouldn’t be losing out so much to competing world powers
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Naval supremacy still rules the world
About a year ago I found myself 100 metres beneath the waves of the North Sea.
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What did you do in the war, Michael?
MICHAEL FOOT famously told the 1981 Labour Party conference that he was an ‘incurable, inveterate peace-monger’. However Foot’s record in the Second World War gives the lie to this
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#IOPC IN THE NEWS AGAIN. Pix: DG Rachel Watson; Acting Deputy DG Kathie Cashell;
Amanda Rowe and Steve Noonann, both Acting Directors, Operations.
That's a lot of acting! No wonder the IOPC's report never saw the light of day.
Are we a bit flaccid, perhaps?
A dubious editorial decision by the Daily Mail that risks glorifying one of the most evil men in history. Who cares about his air fryer recipes?