read Henry Kissinger's 'Diplomacy' for a wonderful account of how the Europeans shagged each other, inc Britain dipping its oar in....through to the 1st WW, the epitome of late 20thC politics, the message being to keep a guarded position but when the moment strikes, then let the guns blaze. And this maybe just one such moment now.
It's brilliantly written - and when you think about the way he slurred his words, the man is a genius when it comes to his pen.
Atlantic Conveyor was a sitting target because it did not have any adequate defences. It was a merchant ship built not built for a combat role. We didn't have the right ships for the job because we couldn't afford them because we were paying for a very expensive white elephant that we will never deploy successfully.
//Brzezinski is currently Robert E. Osgood Professor of American Foreign Policy at Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies,//
// His son, Mark Brzezinski, is the current United States Ambassador to Sweden//
//Brzezinski belongs to the realist school of international relations,//
Brzezinski has been there from day 1. Policy on how to undermine Russian policy in Afghanistan and had personal and close experience of both Nazi and Stalinist ways of conducting 'world affairs'. Polish nobility.
In May 2010, the newly elected Conservative led Government announced the Strategic Defence and Security Review of the Armed Forces. The UK government announced the cancellation of the Nimrod MRA4 on 19 October 2010 and consequently that RAF Kinloss, the intended base for the Nimrod fleet, would be closed.
It was a great comfort to me in 2011, when Cameron decided to send the RAF to bomb Libya...and just look how well that's turned out...to hear that we had an aircraft carrier in the Mediterranean.
Sadly, it was behind a tug and on its way to a Turkish breaker's yard!
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