Yesterday ITV aired the iconoclastic journalist John Pilger‘s documentary titled ‘The War You Don’t See’. Over 90 minutes he set about revealing the Machiavellian ‘truth’ behind the headlines and strongly criticised the media for kow-towing to the propagandist line fed to them by the government and military. The result was not only a gross misapplication [...]
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The War You Don’t See
Posted in First World War, Military History, Public History, Second World War, War on Terror, tagged Iraq, ITV, John Pilger, Julian Assange, War in Afghanistan (2001–present), War on Terror, Wikileaks, World War I on December 15, 2010 | 1 Comment »
The Afghan Police and the British Public; Are either ready for Afghan Self-Governance?
Posted in Afghanistan, War on Terror, War Studies, tagged Afghan National Police, Afghanistan, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Asymetric Warfare, British Army, Helmand Province, Media, NATO on November 30, 2010 | 3 Comments »
First, please read the attached article. This got me thinking: At the NATO summit last week (19th – 20th November 2010), Cameron announced that all British forces would be withdrawn from Afghanistan by 2015 and, starting in Spring 2011 and ending in 2014, that domestic security would be handed over to the 50,000 strong Afghan [...]
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