History, Politics And Current Affairs

Right, we have: 1.) An already militarised and partially mobilised Australia 2.) Followed by an epoch defining attack that essentially wipes Canberra off the map 3.) A mass mobilisation of 800,000+ on top of several hundred thousand already in service 4.) After this, chronologically, we have a doubl...

Some general musing: - Without Boney and a French victory in Italy, it will be difficult to see them try for Egypt, but not impossible - Following up a bigger victory at the Glorious First of June with a further blow to French numbers in the Atlantic would be of great utility - Their forces in the M...

Thank you kindly. There is a fair bit of meat in this briefing chapter, and in the next two to come, but then we get into the Scarlet Pimpernel rescuing the Dauphin and Richard Sharpe making sure that Napoleon is Blownapart. An absence of Boney doesn’t necessarily preclude the French from a mistake ...

The Cards Reshuffled 3 “Every day?” “Indeed, Mr. Steele.” “In these chests?” “Yes.” “May I look within them?” “I’m afraid not, sir. My instructions regarding them is that we are not to look behind the curtain during the night or day, save for the hour of dawn. The same goes for the other, smaller c...

Which is why it is a very long-term project. Plus, I don't have as much time for writing these days! Well you have given us so much already, but i do you think you finish the Last War before George R. R. Martin releases The Winds of Winter. Bernard is still writing TLW, and hasn't given up on it to...

Halfway Across the 1970s: The Last Bit - Africa is a fair bit better off in certain ways, such as the absence of particular dictators, oppressive regimes and outright wars, but that is counterbalanced in a certain sense by a lack of complete 'true' independence for the majority of her countries, at...

A Lil 1975 Military Overview - The Red Army remains the largest force in the world, with a 1975 strength of 324 divisions, comfortably ahead of the 296 divisions of the Imperial Chinese Army and the 72 divisions of the Indian Army. The armies of the Free World are rather smaller, with the US musteri...

Halfway Across the 1970s: The Middle Bit - Natural population increases continue across the West in the absence of the contraceptive pill, but this will eventually start to flatten down a bit more, with the circumstances of affluence to some extent, with some countries experiencing a less notable d...

https://youtu.be/I5G3Q_sj-vA?si=f3j4_yC699snFPE4

And here is a nice one from our West German chums from back in the 1980s regarding feeding soldiers.

Ah yes, the one Chris Gibson book I never bought, and looking at the price, I nearly got the vapours.

Is that from one of the British Secret Projects books? I remember that page.

This account has several dozen short films on HM Armed Forces from the 1950s through to the 1990s:
https://youtube.com/@hants_prints?si=QZx7gOKxaJgnwTBE

The article is quite assiduous in not giving any details on the exercise, it’s course or outcome, save in the most general of details. Given that Britain doesn’t really have any area air defence missiles, and has five Sky Sabre systems (each of 4-6 launchers x 8 missiles), and a relatively low numbe...

Given the very low numbers of the RAF’s combat aircraft fleet, the latter should be possible without much if any work, factoring in RAF bases, civilian airfields and closed airfields not yet demolished.

https://youtu.be/8Pub8im_6ws?si=9TDIcCOYkj7y50pp

A 20 minute short recruitment picture from the 1970s TA.

I don’t think there is any basis to feel sorry for them. Whilst they didn’t get to kick off their murderous rampages here, they ran into something very nasty in its own right not whilst out picking daisies, but whilst hunting for victims. I’m not trying to craft anything particularly deep in these p...

A little aside: In respect to the vampiress who ‘bought Peter Sutcliffe’s career to an end before it could start’, it just so happens that she is the same one who killed Ted Bundy in the USA a few years before. I present to you the world’s first undead pseudo-vigilante serial serial-killer killer; t...

That is good, both in terms of the hint getting the intended human reaction, and in terms of the visceral nature and raised threat coming across. In a story, if the writer buffs the protagonist to high heaven, then in order for there to be any drama or tension, he should balance it out by raising th...

Who said they were all scientists...

As for the second, through the magic of television, it is done

Halfway Across the 1970s and Turn Left: A World Overview and General Reflections (Part the First) - The first and perhaps equal foremost difference to mention is the different end result of the Vietnam War. Both North Vietnam and South Vietnam remain as heavily supported Communist and Western proxi...