[PDF file]: The Field of Fight: How We Can Win the Global War Against Radical Islam and Its Allies Lt. General Michael T Flynn and Michael Ledeen New York: St Martin’s Press, 2016 The appointment of General Michael Flynn as Donald Trump’s national security adviser highlights a great contradiction that runs through what we know of […]
[PDF file]: […] lack of it, of the British political class, willingly subordinating itself to such a man. How have we come to this sad state of affairs? David McKnight’s new book, an investigation of Murdoch’s political power, is arguably the best account of this that we have. So far it has only been published in Australia, […]
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[PDF file]: […] 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 the process, so much […]
[PDF file]: […] would completely collapse the The presence of 8 DUP MPs increased the number required to bring down Johnson from about 40 to 45. Tim Bale in The New European 5 November 2020 notes that a Northern Research Group of 55 Conservative MPs has been formed and that the Tories may now be splintering. 3 […]
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[PDF file]: […] to undermine the military effort in Afghanistan for political advantage. After Brown’s defeat, Murdoch, Brooks and co must have felt that their power and influence had reached new, triumphant heights. With Andy Coulson at No 10, with Brooks having established herself as Cameron’s best friend and riding partner3 and with their creature Gove at […]
[PDF file]: Faustian Bargains Lyndon Johnson and Mac Wallace in the robber baron culture of Texas Joan Mellen London and New York: Bloomsbury; 2016, h/b, £18.99 P rofessor Mellen spoke about ‘Mac’ Wallace, who is one of the two subjects of this book, a couple of years ago in a lecture,1 and it was clear when […]
[PDF file]: […] they could do a post-election opinion poll asking people if they were influenced by the Agency’s work; by the nature of things the work was concealed. Perhaps new techniques will be developed to track the impact of disinformation on target audiences; but those methods, too, would have to remain invisible and untraceable. There is […]
[PDF file]: […] fuel tanks. (NB The Me 110D, introduced in April 1940 had a range of over 800 miles.) In the diary kept by Maisky, the Soviet Ambassador, he notes in his entry for 3 June 1941, following his lunch with Beaverbrook ‘an additional fuel tank was attached to Hess’s plane, and he flew from Germany […]
