Peter Caddick–Adams
Dr Peter Caddick–Adams is a professional defence analyst and military historian, and lectured at the UK Defence Academy on war and security issues, working in 58 countries. He has worked for the British army, and was the official NATO Historian in Bosnia, and the UK Historian during the Iraq War. His last book, 1945: Victory in the West, was published in 2022. Follow him at @militaryhistori
The curse of history
Campaign Diary: the war in Ukraine in context
The French far right are losers
Will Rassemblement National will ever be the ruling party?
Why Twitter needs the libs
Strange as it sounds, we will miss them if they go
The dangerous fallacy of “self-deterrence”
The concept makes little sense and could create serious risks
The US is getting what it wants in the Middle East
Israeli escalations against Hezbollah are not defiance but an extension of U.S. strategy
Kim Leadbeater’s “safeguards” won’t keep people safe
The proposed legal hurdles are effectively useless
Twilight of the hacks
“A Very Royal Scandal” and the emptiness of modern journalism
Shattered illusions
The record of the authorities defies denials of two-tier policing
We are missing the important point on procurement
Systemic dysfunction is far more important than individual failures
The Critic guide to glass ceilings
On the self-made men (and women!) of the Labour Party