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The War Room

Ideas and commentary on historical matters and subjects associated with modern international relations, sometimes associated with my writing, and sometimes not!

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Why did Indians join up to fight the Japanese?I’m doing a few talks this summer on the subject of my new book A War of Empires. I do hope you’ve heard of it! One of the questions I’m regularly asked is ‘why did Indians fight?’ In fact, I don’t spend much time talking about the subject in the book: a really good analysis is…
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A little fun at Chalke Valley yesterday I had a marvellous day at the Chalke Valley History Festival yesterday. The sun was shining (mostly), the audience was large and appreciative (and not all sleepy following lunch) and I was able to meet up with old friends and make some new ones. If you haven’t been before, make…
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Remembering KohimaWhen you go home, tell them of us and say, for your tomorrow, we gave our today
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To War with CuthbertVirginia Hall and La Resistance Française
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The NineI tend to read two or three books a week for pleasure: my work-related book reading is on top of all this. When looking back over the last year to ask…
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Recording a monstrous atrocityJulien Bryan in Poland, September 1939
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Chin Peng: the Pied Piper of MalayaOr, how to let ideology and personal hubris lead a movement over the cliff
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Russia: an unending drama.I’ve had the privilege of interviewing Sir Antony Beevor this week to discuss his new book on the two Russian revolutions of 1917 and the civil war that…
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“The Double-Barrelled Name and the Half-Cocked Offensive” Some observations on generalship from Socrates to Stilwell and Slim, via Napoleon and a few others on the way
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Whither the Integrated Review. Still tilting at windmills?The government’s Integrated Review, ‘Britain in a Global Age’ is now over a year old. It was written long before the Russian invasion of Ukraine, an…
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Writing about the British ArmyI have read a range of books about the British Army recently, and they have all been very different, despite covering much the same ground. Simon Akam’s…
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Some thoughts on doctrine, the Indirect Approach and Russia...My friends at the Land Warfare Centre last week published the first major rewrite of the Army Doctrine Publication since, I think, the first version…
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Is the tank dead?
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Thank goodness for a well-oiled infantry battalion..
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David Stirling, sacred cows & being crushed by falling statues
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Why did Indians join up to fight the Japanese?
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The War Room

The War Room

Ideas and commentary on historical matters and subjects associated with modern international relations, sometimes associated with my writing, and sometimes not!
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