by Terence Strong | Nov 29, 2015 | Posts
Everyone’s spoiling for a fight with the medieval Islamic death cult of Daesh (or Islamic State as it grandly calls itself) – including me. Prime Minister Cameron wants to earn his credentials as a gun-toting sheriff to take on the bad guys with the black...
by Terence Strong | Nov 27, 2015 | Posts
Contributed by Sharkey Ward Falklands War air ace and Harrier squadron commander [Edited] Things do not auger well for Britain’s future land-based air participation by the Royal Air Force in the fight against Islamic State (IS) targets. It is understood that the UK’s...
by Terence Strong | Nov 7, 2015 | Posts
Naval aviation against Islamic State by Sharkey Ward A contribution from Britain’s Falklands War Harrier Squadron Commander and Air Ace [Edited] Britain’s Defence Minister Michael Fallon does not yet seem to have taken in the implications of not having an efficient...
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...
