A Video Introduction to the Groundbreaking ‘War / Photography’ Exhibition
War/Photography surveys both iconic and newly discovered photographs of war and conflict, from daguerreotypes documenting the Crimean and American Civil Wars to digital images made by soldiers in 21st-century Iraq. The atrocities, the courage, all of the human emotions and actions that surround war are laid bare before the photographers lens. This striking video introduction to … Read more
Why British military leaders lack strategy, leadership and moral courage: Author article by Frank Ledwidge
Losing Small Wars by former military intelligence officer Frank Ledwidge was published last year to acclaim and controversy in equal measures. The book is out soon in paperback, accompanied by a 99p ebook Punching Below Our Weight. To celebrate this, we thought we’d re-publish an article he wrote for the Yale Books Blog back in August 2011. Ledwidge discusses … Read more
The Forever Wars: Author David Keen discusses how global conflicts are deliberately sustained
David Keen is the author of the controversial new book Useful Enemies: When Waging Wars is More Important Than Winning Them. Here he discusses conflicts in Sudan, Sierra Leone, Afghanistan and Sri Lanka, and investigates the way these conflicts are wilfully sustained and the methods used to perpetuate them. Article by David Keen My book Useful Enemies is really … Read more
Author article by Frank Ledwidge: Why British military operations lack strategy, leadership and ‘moral courage’
Losing Small Wars: British Military Failure in Iraq and Afghanistan is an explosive new book by former military intelligence officer Frank Ledwidge, which examines the British involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan, and asks how and why it went so wrong. Here the author discusses his time in the armed forces, describing his personal realisation that senior … Read more
Autumn 2011 Preview: New books on the Middle east
Yale University Press publishes cutting-edge current affairs books. Today we look at Yale’s Autumn 2011 list, picking specific titles that deal with conflicts in the Middle East, including a revised edition of Tarek Osman’s acclaimed and prescient Egypt on the Brink. In the last hour the Syrian president Bashar al-Assad has addressed his country for … Read more
