Recently Ukraine's President Zelensky caused a stir (rapidly overtaken by other news) when firing his fairly well-regarded Commander of ...

Ten days ago, one of our BTL anons asked: why aren't the Russians interdicting Western military supplies en route to Ukrainian forces? ...

Being somewhat too busy for writing, here are a couple of excellent reads for you. Ukraine :  First, a caveat, I have absolutely no idea whe...

30 years ago, the Coalition had eventually launched its ground offensive to expel Saddam from Kuwait, having used the many months of plann...

At the end of February 1991, after a month of intense and purposeful air activity of the shooting kind , Desert Storm moved into the decisiv...

This was essentially the first war played out in realtime on our TVs.  There is tons of excellent stuff on the air campaign to be found easi...

Mr BQ raised an interesting issue BTL last time :  ... a question for Mr Drew. We recall how Norman used the media. Smart bombs and footage ...

Last time, we saw how the cornered Saddam didn't take things lying down, but embarked on bold 'surprise' initiatives at the out...

There's an old military precept ** , expressed in various ways: There's no such thing as strategic surprise - but there can always b...

Iraqi artillery position: too neat for its own good 30 years ago, Desert Storm was raging.  There had been a fairly lengthy build-up period...

The politics of the Middle East is something we don't tend to stray into around C@W, there are too many obvious beartraps (not to mentio...

Today marks the 30th anniversary of the conclusion of Op Desert Shield in Kuwait / Saudi / Iraq (etc) and the start of Desert Storm . I have...

Reading a philosophy blog the other day, I found the following sentiment:  "George H. W. Bush was a temporary throwback to an earlier ...

30 years ago, the USA having determined that Saddam was to be b ooted out of Kuwait, Drew had rejoined the Colours and was busily p articip...

Back this weekend to the situation where thirty years ago, Saddam Hussein had invaded Kuwait , and the US-led, NATO-based effort to evict hi...

In 1990 the determination of the USA - and the UK as its sidekick - to evict Saddam Hussein from Kuwait by force if necessary, necessitated ...

Armies, it is said, prepare to fight the previous war.  Well, the British military in 1990 wasn't exactly primed for WW2 or Korea**, but...

This month sees the 30th anniversary of Saddam Hussein's lightning invasion of Kuwait .  You won't find much mention of that in the ...