The British Army, War Establishment Tables North-West Europe 1944-45: v. 2: The British Armoured Divisions of 21st Army Group, 1944-45 (British Army Formation and Unit Organisation in WWII)
World Affairs Board (Free subscription) | yesterday
Apparently bribes are paid in different directions in Afghanistan. To get the job done, this pragmatic guideline is reported to be in the British forces field manual. Afghanistan is not N Ireland. *Army tells its soldiers to 'bribe' the Taleban*...
GrogNews (Free subscription) | yesterday
There's a good discussion of why the doctrine matters from a blog over at the BBC. However, on Sunday the British Army rolled out its new blueprints for how UK forces might work to stabilise a foreign country and what steps the forces should take to do so. Some see a preoccupation with doctrine or strategy as a profane thing - a game of power point and smooth talking while the ugly reality of war blasts...
"ROGUE GUNNER" (Free subscription) | yesterday
Tributes paid to flood victim policeman I would like to pay my respects to Workington PC Bill Barker who lost his life whilst protecting the public. Our thoughts are with his family and colleagues. He died a Hero and will be sorely missed by all , RIP. Bells toll for a grim milestone I fear I will saying this for years to come buts thanks to the people of Wooton Bassatt, RIP our brave soldiers. Warthog...
Helmand Blog - Afghanistan (Free subscription) | yesterday
It's well known the most feared weapon in the British Army's arsenal in Afghanistan is the Apache attack helicopter. The Taliban accept that when it arrives overhead, the battle on the ground is already lost. But now a new upgrade to the fleet of these aircraft has given commanders in theatre a new way to track down those who threaten the lives of British soldiers in Afghanistan. The pilots, engineers...
rurritable (Free subscription) | yesterday
From a talented group of British Army brats. These guys had it nailed before the DC press corps managed to get its britches up.
Tenerife News Online (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
In 1959, just fifty years ago, I was in Berlin with the British Army. The infamous wall had not yet been built round the whole city, which was divided into four sectors, Russian, American, French and British.
MalnurturedSnay.net (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
After the British Army burned the Congressional Library in 1814, Thomas Jefferson donated his library — 6,700 volumes — to the U.S. government to start a new one. Not only is that an impressive number of books for one person to own today, but especially for not quite two hundred years ago. In [...]
Boston 1775 (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
By July 1777, Sarah Church , wife of accused traitor Dr. Benjamin Church , realized that she was no longer welcome in America. A mob carrying off your possessions tends to have that effect. Sarah gathered the silver plate that remained and bought passage for herself and her children to France , and from there to Britain. The dates of their voyages aren’t clear. Back in Massachusetts, the state...
BAGnewsNotes (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
I sympathise with arguments to say that only through release of such images can the world know the full extent of what happened, but I also doubt what we can actually and accurately “know” from photographs that we wouldn’t otherwise learn through full disclosure and description of events. ... British soldiers share a laugh as their comrade walks around dressed as Borat, the Kazakh...
Belfast Media | Home (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
A senior Belfast republican said he is not surprised by shock revelations in a new book that members of the Official IRA identified mourners at an IRA funeral from pictures supplied by British intelligence. The local republican was commenting on information published in The Lost Revolution: The Story of the Official IRA and the Workers’ Party by Brian Hanley and Scott Millar, which has just...
CommonDreams.org Headlines (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
by David Brown Dozens of prisoners held at a secret British army interrogation centre in Iraq claim they suffered unlawful physical and mental abuse similar to that carried out by the US on detainees at Guantánamo Bay. Inmates at the high-security compound within the Shaibah base say they were held in solitary confinement and forced to wear dark goggles and earmuffs when taken from their cells...
Winds Of Jihad (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Times Online British forces should buy off potential Taleban recruits with “bags of gold”, according to a new army field manual published yesterday. Army commanders should also talk to insurgent...
Sky News (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
Tributes have been paid to a British Army bomb disposal expert killed by an improvised explosive device on Sunday.
Reason Magazine - Hit & Run (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
Back in May, I wrote this post about the murders of two British Army sappers, Mark Quinsey, 23, and Patrick Azimkar, 21, in County Antrim, Northern Ireland, and fretted that dissident Republicans were getting bolder in their attacks on the police, army, and those it considered traitors to the Feinian cause. Last month, The Christian Science Monitor wondered if IRA splinter groups could "bring...
"ROGUE GUNNER" (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
Rifleman Andrew Fentiman, the latest British soldier to be killed in Afghanistan, had recently blogged that he was waiting for body armour and helmets to be delivered. Rifleman Andrew Fentiman, 23, was shot while on foot patrol near Sangin, in Helmand province, on Sunday. You can read Andrews Blog Here I would imagine the MOD would like to ban Blogs by serving soldiers. They would say its for security...
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