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 The hidden story
of Field Marshal Montgomery and the British led victory over Hitler’s last
great gamble. The Battle of the Bulge was the last great German counter-attack
of World War Two. An epic confrontation, it almost turned the tide of the war.
The decisive role of Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery and the British-led
forces in thwarting the Fuhrer's plans has remained largely hidden from
view. In 'Knife Edge: Montgomery and the Battle of the Bulge', the
military historian Robert Oulds tells the real story of that victory
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 As well serving on the volatile North West Frontier of the Raj
prior to the First World War and again in the 1930s Bernard Law Montgomery,
later Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, fought two wars on terror.
He faced first the IRA in Ireland in the early 1920s when he commanded British
troops in County Cork, hotbed of terrorist violence. Next he faced Islamic
insurgents in Palestine during the Arab Revolt on the eve of World War II. In
both conflicts he introduced new tactics, new training and new techniques that
surprised and defeated his enemies. He also came to profound conclusions as to
how the contrasting wars in Ireland and the Middle East should be handled
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 In a follow-up
to the original Bruges Group paper on the EU's Galileo project, this paper
looks at the most recent developments and the obvious disinformation being
provided by the Government to Parliamentary Questions. It illustrates the
essential dishonesty and near panic within government at the state of the
whole Galileo project
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 The choice of a
European supplier for British Army trucks may be a politically driven decision
that will put the whole of the US special relationship at risk, with untold
political consequences
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The Defence Secretary, Geoff Hoon, is committing Britain to a potentially
disastrous military system. However, no procurement contracts have yet to be
awarded so, before we are finally committed to spending huge amounts of money
and going down a road from which there is no return, we should have that
debate. If we go ahead it could mean the surrender of the independence of our
armed forces and the nation, so we owe ourselves that
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The EU has ambitions to harness the key military technology of our age -
the ability to use satellite-positioning technology, which has revolutionised
military operations, making possible the development of high-accuracy
all-weather weapons targeting and enhanced command and control systems. This
will give the EU a greater role on the world stage but at what price to the
Trans-Atlantic Alliance? Furthermore, the EU’s courting of business partners,
in particular the People’s Republic of China could also threaten world
peace
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An assessment of the latest development in the EU's Great Game. In
conjunction with some unsavoury business partners with appalling human rights
records, most notably China, the European Union is pushing ahead with the
Galileo satellite navigation system. Allowing other states to have control of
this technology will be a major blow to America’s pre-eminence and will boost
the military capabilities of potential enemies of the United States and its
allies.
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Speech by John R. Bolton, Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and
International Security United States Department of State, to the Bruges Group,
London, 30th October, 2003
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Roger Helmer, MEP speaks on enlargement, the future of Europe, plus Iraq
and the Common Foreign and Defence Policy.
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Peaceniks, the EU and Saddam - analysis of the international developments
relating to the War on Terror
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