Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014)
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[PDF file]: […] of the William Cohen Group in Washington DC where he works as ‘senior counsellor’ to the weapons and security consultants. Cohen was Robertson’s opposite number at the Pentagon during the Clinton administration.2 Reporting on the referendum for the BBC from Glasgow was Sarah Smith, the former Channel 4 News Washington correspondent, who is the […]
Lobster Issue 61 (Summer 2011)
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[PDF file]: […] years since I did so. However there was a very interesting essay on changing styles in British political policing on 19 ‘Empire of Bases 2.0 Does the Pentagon Really Have 1,180 Foreign Bases?’ at . 20 21 22 8 Against that background, the then Chief of the General Staff, Sir Richard Dannatt, told me […]
Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)
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[PDF file]: […] during the Second World War, and (US Army General) Eisenhower’s special advisor on psychological warfare. Between 1953 and 1954, Jackson was President Eisenhower’s special liaison between the Pentagon and the recently-created CIA. On one fundamental principle, Jackson and Eisenhower were likeminded: psychological warfare was preferable to physical warfare, and decisively so in the age […]
Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)
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[PDF file]: […] themselves in the swamp like no other President before them. Jared Kushner, for example, has both ‘personal and financial entanglements’ across the Middle East. According to one Pentagon aide, every policy in the region was ‘examined for what it can do for him’. And as for Trump himself, he is ‘at once a symptom […]