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Monday, 28 April 2014

U.S. feared Falklands war would draw in Soviet Union, documents reveal

Declassified cables show U.S. felt Thatcher had not considered diplomatic options, and feared Soviet Union could be drawn in. The US feared the Thatcher government “had not thought much about diplomatic possibilities” for resolving the Falklands crisis when it dispatched a military taskforce 30 years ago, and predicted the conflict would be a “close-run thing” that could well bring about Margaret Thatcher’s fall, according to newly declassified American diplomatic cables. The documents, published by the National Security Archives, an independent research organisation in Washington, also highlight American worries that a protracted war could draw in the Soviet Union on Argentina’s side, with far-reaching geopolitical repercussions in an area of the world the US saw as its backyard.Read more HERE

They were worried about the Soviet Union then, they are worried about Russia now, some things never change and sadly the fact that as long as man occupies the world, War will be a consequence. As for Americas help `Thank you` as I'm sure you appreciate us helping you in the invasion of Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya and nearly Syria until the British electorate stopped that little ill judged escapade dead in its tracks.

Thursday, 13 March 2014

MILITARY PIC OF THE DAY

HT/ Full Of Weapons

Monday, 14 October 2013

Into The Breach

I SALUTE YOU ALL.

Friday, 13 September 2013

MILITARY PIC OF THE DAY

A10 'Hog'

HT/ Military Photography

Friday, 6 September 2013

MILITARY PIC OF THE DAY

HT/ Seal Of Honor

Wednesday, 3 July 2013

MILITARY PIC OF THE DAY

US EOD team

Credit Military Photography

Thursday, 20 June 2013

MILITARY PIC OF THE DAY (BLACKHAWKS)

Credit Military Photography

Thursday, 13 June 2013

SPITFIRE 944

In 2005, an 83 year-old World War II pilot is surprised to see 16mm footage of his 1944 Spitfire crash for the first time.

Wednesday, 5 June 2013

THE BRITISH SQUADDY

"Those Brits are a strange old race, they show affection by abusing each other, will think nothing of casually stopping in the middle of a fire fight for there "brew up" and eat food that I wouldn't give to a dying dog! but fuck me, I would rather have one British squaddie on side than a entire battalion of spetznaz!!! Why? Because the British are the only people in the world who when the chips are down and there seems like no hope left, instead of getting sentimental or hysterical, will strap on there pack, charge there rifle, light up a smoke and calmly and wryly grin "well are we going then you wanker??"

Unknown US soldier, Iraq 2005

The Americans have got us Brits sussed.

Thursday, 23 May 2013

MILITARY PIC OF THE DAY

US Marines demonstrate their readiness during a training exercise in southeast Asia. Explore the capabilities of the M777 Howitzer.

(Credit) United States Marine Corps

Wednesday, 15 May 2013

PTSD: Not A New Ailment On 'Wartorn' Battlefield

Combat and post-traumatic stress disorders in military veterans are not new, though the conditions have been called many other names throughout the years: "insanity" and "melancholia" during the Civil War, "shell-shock" during World War I and "combat fatigue" during World War II.

Top military leaders are now addressing the lingering effects of post-traumatic stress disorder, (PTSD) which were ignored for many years because they were seen as a sign of weakness. Last week, Gen. George Casey, the chief of staff of the U.S. Army, called PTSD "the defining military health issue of our era."

Consider that statement alongside the much-recounted story from World War II, when Gen. George S. Patton infamously slapped a solider suffering from "nervous exhaustion" in a military hospital and ordered him back to the front.

That story, and others from wars stretching from the Civil War to the current battles in Afghanistan and Iraq are chronicled in a new HBO documentary, Wartorn 1861-2010, which combines footage, interviews and documents to examine the effects of PTSD on soldiers returning from the battlefield. Read More HERE