My Persian friends here in LA tell me there is an old saying there: "if you stub your toe on a rock, you can be sure an Englishman left it there" They also tell me that the regime calls the… (View Post)

We had invaded Okinawa, and had amassed a multi million force, and had dropped a couple of nuclear bombs. Are we prepared to drop nukes of Tehran or Esfahan or Shiraz (which are the cities which -iro… (View Post)

It's very hard to change a regime by bombing alone. At the end of the first Gulf War, it was assumed that with Saddam's army mostly destroyed and the no fly zone, he would be rapidly overth… (View Post)

Indeed; Boris Johnson deserves an enormous amount of credit for his Ukraine stance. (View Post)

Hi all, I moved the server yesterday, taking full advantage of Cloudflare's caching infrastructure, that should mean that everything is a lot more reliable in the future. However, it's poss… (View Post)