Robert Tombs wrote another excellent article in the Telegraph recently: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/10/23/putin-fighting-impossible-war-no-escape/ For those unable to access the link, I have copied the article below: Why do states start...
Defenders of the Myth can always be relied upon to provide entertainment, especially as it is becoming more and more obvious that they realise they are on the run. Desperate to keep their much-loved National Party fairy tales staggering on a bit...
We are used to True Believers pretending that the Boer War – you know, the one that started when Kruger’s Boers invaded British territory – was all due to Britain wanting to ‘steal our gold’ – you know, the gold mines that were already owned by...
Defenders of Apartheid-era Myths love to tell one another that I am ‘wrong’, though never trouble themselves to explain where, why and how. One entertaining True Believer was recently called out on his incessant online claims, and asked to...
Someone very kindly gave my Atlas of the Boer War a nice shout out on one of the various Boer War Facebook groups the other day. With mind-numbing predictability, however, one of the more entertaining Defenders of the Myth immediately popped up...
There was an interesting article in the Telegraph a few days ago: Strategy, logistics and morale: Why the fundamentals of war haven’t changed The way to destroy an enemy hasn’t altered since we fought as bands of hunter-gatherers on the...
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