Monatsarchive: November 2015

http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/former-us-intelligence-chief-discusses-development-of-is-a-1065131.html Thinking of Michael Hastings writing about Flynn in The Operators. Wonder how exactly Hastings died.

God, Spies and Lies, by South African journalist John Matisonn, describes how then president Thabo Mbeki tried in vain to convince both Blair and President George W Bush that toppling Saddam Hussein in 2003 would be a terrible mistake. Mbeki’s … Weiterlesen →

The near-simultaneous attacks in Paris that killed at least 128 people were an „act of war“ organised by the Islamic State (IS) militant group, French President Francois Hollande says. I’m weighing the truth value of that proposition this morning. An act of … Weiterlesen →

Hubert Menzel, OKW, explaining the thinking behind Unternehmen Barbarossa. I am ruminating on this this evening.