A Royal Marine has gone public with his concerns that standards are being lowered for female trainees, claiming lives could be at risk and that he was treated like a terrorist for raising his worries.
What if warfare is the normal condition of human society, and peace the exception that requires explanation? Ramesh Thakur looks at some longstanding conflicts and asks how peace might be finally achieved.
Forget Adolescence, says Guy de la Bédoyère. Try The Colditz Story. What teenage boys really need if they’re going to become men are the thrilling adventure stories he devoured as a teenager.
Why is the West's strategy so stupid? Why do we always lose? Ukraine is just the latest ill-fated military intervention driven by simplistic liberal idealism, says Prof Michael Rainsborough. We need to kick the habit.
Climate change, Covid, war: the Establishment's string of emergencies with which to alarm and control the populace exposes its preferred mode of governance. But the self-serving narrative is wearing thin, says Ben Pile.
The Imperial War Museum is consigning Lord Ashcroft's collection of 230 Victoria and George Cross medals to gather dust in a vault. A society that does not value collections like these reveals its true nature.
USAID is designed to do what the CIA cannot do, with a strong dash of plausible deniability, says Mike Benz. Prof James Alexander takes a deep dive into the Deep State to look at what Elon Musk is unmasking.
According to J Sorel, the British Army is increasingly being treated like a tool for enforcing international law, rather than an instrument of the British people.
The EU has set out plans to raise £101bn via a windfall tax on renewable energy suppliers and bring in a "demand reduction" law to address the growing crisis.
If fears of NATO expansion don’t sound like a solid principle for Russia to stand on, then don’t worry, Russia has other ones – a myriad of factitious grievances tailored to the prejudices of any given audience.
