by Terence Strong | Sep 5, 2015 | Posts
The current escalating refugee crisis throughout Europe and the Middle East is not of Britain or Europe’s making. Individual European countries should not beat themselves up because they feel it inappropriate or socially damaging to take in refugees from mostly Syria,...
by Terence Strong | Aug 24, 2015 | Posts
Such is the lunacy of policy at Number Ten and the British Ministry of Defence (MOD) that over 12,000 redundant servicemen and women have had to be re-employed since 2010 to fill vital gaps in Britain’s defence forces. In particular highly-experienced NCOs, who form...
by Terence Strong | Aug 19, 2015 | Posts
The region of Kurdistan is gradually inching its way to becoming an independent nation state. That embryonic state is inconveniently spread over no less than four independent countries: Turkey, Syria, Iran and Iraq. The division of those Kurdish tribal lands is a...
by Terence Strong | Jul 31, 2015 | Posts
There appears to be a new phantom force at work in Africa. A deadly new mercenary company, comprising old-timers from South Africa’s border battles during the Cold War, has apparently given the radical Muslim terrorists of Boko Haram a bloody nose in recent covert...
by Terence Strong | Jul 30, 2015 | Posts
For over the past 10 years Vladimir Putin – as both Prime Minister and President of Russia – has overseen a huge modernisation and upgrading of its armed forces, including submarines and aircraft. The latest is the new T-14 Armata main battle tank (MBT), proposed...