Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016)
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[PDF file]: Malevolent incompetence Chaos and Caliphate Jihadis and the West in the Struggle for the Middle East Patrick Cockburn London and New York: O/R Books, 2016, £19/$28, p/b The first striking thing about this book is that the author survived long enough to write it. Cockburn has spent nearly 20 years years, mostly in the Middle […]
Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016)
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[PDF file]: […] Chatham House et al – of the wilfully and/or career-mindedly naive pro-American writing on the subject at present. 40 She listed as among those briefed by the MOD. See near the bottom of the list at . 41 42 14 Cold War 3 The new Cold War is now established. And just as in […]
Lobster Issue 66 (Winter 2013)
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[PDF file]: […] strict. But in Britain the situation was different. Every type of military equipment could be exported provided it had a governmentapproved ‘end user certificate’ supplied by the MoD. The British were ordered to get round the UN and Parliamentary ban by supplying false ‘end user certificates’. These were drawn up by Mr James Taylor, […]
Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011)
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[PDF file]: […] As often happens, Craig Murray whacked the nail on the head. ‘A mainstream media source has finally plucked up the courage to publish the widespread concern among MOD, Cabinet Office and FCO officials and military that the Werritty operation was linked to, and perhaps controlled by, Mossad – something which agitated officials have been […]
Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)
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[PDF file]: […] counter-subversion preventative measures. I heard Hart speak on a number of occasions, first at the National Defence College, Latimer House, Buckinghamshire, in 1978, and later at various MOD establishments where courses and seminars were held. It was on one of those weekends that I heard Hart advocate “propaganda by outrage” as an extreme policy.’ […]
Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010)
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[PDF file]: […] better than the public; in this case, that the private sector could implement change faster than the state, could shake-up the rigid bureaucracies of the Pentagon and MOD to create the new, dynamic forces for the rapidly changing strategic environments (etc. etc., boilerplate, boilerplate). And hey, if we make a load of money in […]