Next weeks War Studies Seminar at the Centre for War Studies, University of Birmingham is as follows: Colonel Patrick Crowley (MoD) ‘Kut 1916’ The event will be on 15 November. The Seminar meets on TUESDAYS at 5.30 p.m. in Lecture Room 1, 1st Floor, Arts Building.
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War Studies Seminar at the University of Birmingham – Kut 1916
Posted in Events, First World War, Military History, War Studies, tagged 1916, Colonel Patrick Crowley, Iraq, Kut, MoD, University of Birmingham on November 12, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
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 »
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 [...]
Axioms make Idioms of us All
Posted in War Studies, tagged Cold War, Historiography, Iraq, War Studies, Warfare and Conflict on March 29, 2010 | 2 Comments »
I can’t think of two more misleading axioms to the common understanding of history than: the past is told by those who win and history repeats itself . Like all axioms/adages/proverbs (whatever you wish to call them) they’re rooted in reality, the problem is this reality is interpreted on a narrow, perhaps even archaic, view [...]