British Counterinsurgency by John Newsinger

Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016) FREE

[PDF file]: […] brisk, assertive account, with lots of documentation if I chose to pursue it, is what I want.’ Since the 2002 edition Newsinger has added a chapter on Iraq, another devastating account of the self-delusion and staggering incompetence of the Americans and futility on the part of the British Army, which suffered nearly two hundred […]

Case Closed: The Identification of Rudolf Hess

Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020) FREE

[PDF file]: […] need for Dr. Wahl to find and forward it. In 2002, the Hess family declined to participate. The project was dead and urgent work came with the Iraq War. Only in 2012, after the cremation of Hess’s remains, did I receive an e-mail reversing the family position. I did not meet Dr. Cemper-Kiesslich until […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] fraud the UK may have to leave the Union. Huh? Did someone say the world of politics is getting complicated? This appeared in the Daily Telegraph. ‘ Iraq . . . The most disgusting abuse of power in a generation and a moral quagmire that never ends. America is attacked by terrorists and so, […]

The view from the bridge

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[PDF file]: […] Hersh. Later, most of them turned out to hate me. They seem to think I’m part of a global conspiracy against Syria to re-run the invasion of Iraq. It’s a funny old world Liberal leftists of a certain age often suffer from horrible bigotry. It robs Muslims in the Middle East of agency and […]

Whose Prospect?

Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010) FREE

[PDF file]: […] at Page 85 Winter 2009/10 Lobster 58 editor wrote a long piece suggesting that Saddam did have WMD after all, but they were mostly spirited out of Iraq into Syria in a convoy of lorries driven by Russian Spetsnatz commandos just before the American invasion. Did Prospect’s security contacts steer the magazine towards Hassan […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] came back to see him a few weeks later, and by that time we were bombing in Afghanistan. I said, “Are we still going to war with Iraq?” And he said, “Oh, it’s worse than that.” He reached over on his desk. He picked up a piece of paper. And he said, “I just […]

A Classless Society: Britain in the 1990s by Alwyn W. Turner

Lobster Issue 66 (Winter 2013) FREE

[PDF file]: […] to be so. Here is journalist and future Labour MP Sion Simon writing in The Daily Telegraph on December 21 1998 after joint US-British bombing raids on Iraq. In the course of this action (the little-remembered engagement was called Operation Desert Fox), more cruise missiles were fired in four days than in the entire […]

AngloArabia: Why Gulf Wealth Matters to Britain by David Wearing

Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019) FREE

[PDF file]: […] rather than reciprocating steam engines. Encouraged by the government in London, oil corporations established themselves in Persia and Mesopotamia (then part of the Ottoman Empire and now Iraq). The largest of these (with 51 per cent of the shares purchased by the British State), was the Anglo-Persian Oil Company (now BP). The defeat of […]

Historical Notes on Tom Nairn and the British State

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[PDF file]: […] insuperable difficulties.28 Determination that Britain had not only to remain ‘Great’ but have the capacity to show this to the world also explains the catastrophic intervention in Iraq, done in the teeth of massive public opposition, and the willingness to join Washington in a new Cold War aimed largely against what is seen as […]

The Green Zone: The Environmental Costs of Militarism by Barry Sanders

Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] numbers to such unquantified amounts such as how much petrol, diesel and oil the military consume in a year; how much depleted uranium it has scattered over Iraq (and how many people will die or be injured as a result.) Not to forget the human cost of the war in Iraq, on which the […]

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