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Is the tank dead?
Harrumphing into my cornflakes
Dr Robert Lyman
May 29
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Is the tank dead?
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Writing about the British Army
I 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…
Dr Robert Lyman
Jun 5
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Thank goodness for a well-oiled infantry battalion..
The Suffolk Regiment in Malaya 1949-53
Dr Robert Lyman
May 30
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Friendship, and its (sometimes) unlikely results
The Amiens raid, 1944
Dr Robert Lyman
May 26
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David Stirling, sacred cows & being crushed by falling statues
The Phoney Major
Dr Robert Lyman
May 25
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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…
Dr Robert Lyman
Jun 27
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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
Dr Robert Lyman
Jun 13
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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…
Dr Robert Lyman
Jun 1
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Remembering Kohima
When you go home, tell them of us and say, for your tomorrow, we gave our today
Dr Robert Lyman
Jul 1
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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…
Dr Robert Lyman
Jun 24
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To War with Cuthbert
Virginia Hall and La Resistance Française
Dr Robert Lyman
Jun 21
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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…
Dr Robert Lyman
Jun 5
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