War Studies Seminar at the University of Birmingham – Kut 1916

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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The War You Don’t See

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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Axioms make Idioms of us All

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 [...]

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