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Dave on Dreadnought 2050
Which’ll come first, this or the Bakerloo extension? A concept of what might be. Here are some notes & links … Read More
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Dave on Defending the UK
What started it
I found myself doing some reading about recent British Defence strategy and policy. It started with a blog by John Snow, questioning the British military’s obsession with supporting the US, it’s a sort of trickle down, but we can’t afford the technology any more. Military technology works because its new and different and expensive to copy and counter. Snow points at James Meek’s review of five books about Britain’s War in Afghanistan, called “worse than defeat” in the London Review of Books. Read More