Review of ‘Eight Lives Down’ by Chris Hunter, (Daily Mail, November 2007)
Defusing the Iraqi conflict Few Britons have any idea of what our troops actually do in Iraq. The media’s coverage is generally limited to casualty reports, abuse claims and the odd, ill-informed...
View ArticleWhen the Fix is In (National Review, Sept 10, 2007)
Fixers, interpreters, and reporting from Iraq A British colleague of mine was sent by his newspaper to Iraq in 2005, just before the July 7 bombings in London. After that attack, his editor asked...
View ArticleBuilding the US-Kurdistan Special Relationship (WSJ, July 10, 2014)
A U.S. base in Kurdistan would improve the U.S.’s strategic position in the region while guaranteeing Kurdish independence. The Iraqi government of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki is reeling from the...
View ArticleStop Messing the Kurds Around (Breitbart – London 23 July 2014)
One of the less attractive characteristics of the Anglo-Saxon powers is their post-war habit of betraying third world allies, whether they are Vietnamese Montagnards, Afghan interpreters or belong to...
View ArticleCan An Independent Kurdistan Reshape the Middle East (Newsweek Jul. 29, 2014)
When Isis militants stormed the Iraqi city of Mosul in June, the disastrous fragility of Iraq’s armed forces was laid bare. It also ignited a process that may lead to the setting up of the world’s...
View ArticleEnemies, Allies and Kurdistan (Weekly Standard, Nov. 03, 2014)
The Case For a Major New US Military Base It is not clear at the time of writing if Turkey will or will not allow the United States to use the NATO air base at Incirlik for airstrikes against ISIS...
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The Afghan Handover (The Weekly Standard Nov.17, 2014)
It’s not too late for the president to rethink his arbitrary end date Kabul With less than two months to go until the end of the mission, the International Security Assistance Force headquarters in...
View ArticleCOIN Wars – On Daniel Bolger’s “Why We Lost”:(Commentary Magazine, April 2015)
Why We Lost: A General’s Inside Account of the Iraq and Afghanistan WarsBy Daniel P. BolgerEamon Dolan/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 544 pages The shooting wars may be drawing to a close, but the war...
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