Transcript for those with limited bandwidth. Gidday fellow VOXERS, I have always been impressed by xmangerm’s short video clips so I thought I should embrace the technology and have a crack at posting a video blog. Of course I’m not packing the latest tech like exman so you will have to put up [...]
I have just finished reading an excellent book giving accounts from Afghanistan as experienced by British service personal both male and female. And I can’t help but notice how little distance we have come since Gallipoli. The book is called Spoken from The Front and is a collection of the experiences of 16 participants edited [...]
Last week I came across a briefing in The Week dealing with the use of pilotless aircraft around the world. The first stunning fact was how many aircraft are deployed over Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan. The US operates these craft out of 2 bases in the States. Creech in Nevada and Davis-Monthan in Arizona. The [...]
As if the continuing stream of body bags out of Afghanistan is not testing the Brits enthusiasm for war, check out this item from The Age from last week. The ongoing saga of these kidnappings from 2007 has serious indications of a cover up to conceal massive fraud in Iraq. Whodathunkit? Once you start pouring [...]