The Cynical Tendency

Civilians in uniform, the 4th Liverpool Pals, 20th Battalion, The Kings Liverpool Regiment, November 1914.

The debate on who or what should occupy The Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square on a permanent basis has been rumbling on for a long while no...

When politicians these days head for photo opportunities to do with the Army they instinctively want to he associated with the most expensi...

Checked out the Michael Yon web site this morning. If there is any doubt how many Americans and others regard the war in Afghanistan it is ...

In 2003 when Bush and Blair launched the invasion of Iraq, I wrote a letter to a journal stating my doubts about the viability of the UK inv...

This weekend marks the 65th anniversary of “Operation Market Garden”, the attempt to force Allied troops across the Rhine in September 1944...

When the news reached Tiberius of the debacle in the wild tribal interior of Germania after Publius Quinctilius Varus led the 17th, 18th, an...

The heading is taken from the post of August 19th by Michael Yon about the help given to rescue and treat one of our Rifles squaddies. http:...

Mr. Robert William (“Bob”) Ainsworth is the present Secretary of State for Defence, and has encountered a certain amount of criticism since ...

There are those saying that we are likely to be in Afghanistan for decades yet in order to stabilise the country and to establish a more dem...

The last Tommy has gone, and no more will march again. Harry of the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry would have been in the line at Pa...

To the memory of those lost on 13th June 1944, when HMS “Boadicea” was sunk by an enemy aerial torpedo off Portland Bill, having taken part ...

In the news in recent days are reports that China is considering the reorganisation and expansion of its Navy. What was it I said on Wednes...