[…] had faced down the Soviet Union handed over to the Complacent Generation, who made mistake after mistake. Defence capabilities were whittled down. Military defeats in Afghanistan and Iraq were spun and explained away. Communist China, intent on restoring its global power, was invited to fund and run critical national infrastructure, from energy plants to […]
[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 […]
[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 […]
[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 […]
[PDF file]: […] natural resources of much of See or 12 Keating was Labor Prime Minister of Australia from 1991 until his defeat in the 1996 election. Note that on Iraq, in 2003, Blair preferred the opinions of the President of the US to those held by the leaders of France and Germany or the United Nations […]
[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 […]
[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 […]
[PDF file]: […] Blair contributed the Foreword. Now to be fair, Blair had not yet had a chance to show his true colours; and even though Bryant voted for the Iraq War, he eventually aligned himself with Gordon Brown and played a part in bringing Blair down. Nevertheless, it is worth recalling the conversation that another Christian […]
[PDF file]: […] of them despising and eschewing politics to this day. Meantime, and in accordance with the British government’s new policy of courting Saddam Hussein, the SIS’s interest in Iraq was scaled down. Holistic knowledge of the country, at one time second to none, plummeted: what is taught in a dictator’s secondary schools defines the capabilities […]
[…] Blair contributed the Foreword. Now to be fair, Blair had not yet had a chance to show his true colours; and even though Bryant voted for the Iraq War, he eventually aligned himself with Gordon Brown and played a part in bringing Blair down. Nevertheless, it is worth recalling the conversation that another Christian […]
