Military History

The myth of the plucky Brit

Notwithstanding our favourite WWII stories, derring-do doesn’t win wars

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A short history of war

Professor Jeremy Black offers Graham Stewart a crash course in the history of war

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The long view: Britain’s armed force

Graham Stewart and Jeremy Black on how the British military has been shaped over the last two hundred years

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A town called Egmont

A.S.H. Smyth yomps to the scant, wind-battered ruins of the first British colony on the Falkland Islands

Features
What now for Britain’s armed forces?

Professor Jeremy Black talks to Graham Stewart about the future role of Britain’s armed forces

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Britain’s military performance in Iraq and Afghanistan

Jeremy Black and Graham Stewart discuss the performance of the British forces in the war on terror

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Fighting for the new world order

How Britain’s armed forces adapted to new challenges following the end of the Cold War

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War-war leads to jaw-jaw

This is a starkly different interpretation on the proliferation of written constitutions and rams it home with cogency and panache

Books
How the British Army fought the IRA

Jeremy Black and Graham Stewart discuss the British army’s thirty year deployment in Northern Ireland during The Troubles

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Confronting or managing decolonisation?

Professor Jeremy Black and Graham Stewart discuss Britain’s military campaigns in the 1950s and 1960s

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