Review of ‘Kruger’s War’ Royal United Services Institute Journal, 15th April 2018 Dr Damian O’Connor Get into conversation with an Afrikaner in South Africa and the subject of the Anglo-Boer War (1899–1902) will come up, and with it the...
One would have thought that the relentless propaganda offensive to portray the British Empire as some sort of ghastly Bogey Man would have died with the demise of the Apartheid government. Amazingly, however, the new regime has taken up the baton...
The Invasion of Iraq in 2003 was memorable for the rantings of the Iraqi Government spokesman, Muhammad Saeed al-Sahhaf. Better known to British audiences as ‘Comical Ali’ and to those in the States as ‘Baghdad Bob’, this babbling clown would...
Many modern day writers on the Boer War endeavour to convince their readers that Christiaan de Wet was some sort of military genius. With tedious predictability, Pakenham, for example, lists him as one of the ‘great generals’ of the war – a list...
One hundred years ago today, with the First World War still very much underway, the Royal Naval Air Service[i] and the army’s Royal Flying Corps were amalgamated to form the Royal Air Force – the world’s first independent Air Force[ii] and, at...
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