My tutor, Professor Matthias Strohn, told me that if anything, WWI military authorities were more sympathetic towards military personnel suffering combat stress, than their WWII counterparts. Patton … (View Post)

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy481jwjljjo I think that Sam Kerr was the author of her own misfortune. (View Post)

O/T, but averaging the most recent poll from eight pollsters gives Labour 25.2%, Reform 24.9%, Conservative 22.4%, Lib Dem 12.5%, Green 8.5%. Baxtered, that gives Labour 264, Conservative 145, Reform… (View Post)

No. It expresses a very unpleasant truth. Ethnic cleansing is a war crime, like the use of starvation against enemy civilians. But, the world frequently turns a blind eye to both. (View Post)

Empires are not all bad, and the end of empires is not all good. For a lot of people, an imperial overlord, however exploitative, who has no dog in the fight, other than collecting taxes and raising … (View Post)