A blog for various faculty and research students of the Department of War Studies, King's College London to post their thoughts, random, and otherwise, about war and the world.
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While criticising former British Prime Minister Tony Blair and the government’s appointment of historians Martin Gilbert and Lawrence Freedman to the Iraq War inquest, Oliver Miles makes this contribution to the debate:
Both Gilbert and Freedman are...
Andrew Exum/Abu Muqawama is giving up blogging. Or, rather, he’s changing his blogging style. He writes:
I aim to use this blog in a different way than I have so far done. I look to friends like Marc Lynch and Reidar Visser and admire the way they use...
One of the hallmarks of good COIN is that it is not focused solely on military factors. Indeed, politics and development are meant to take centre stage, with support from the military. According to those in the know, like David Kilcullen, COIN...
Is it just me or has November 2009 been a hellish month for everyone? So, so busy and not much time for KOW. Anyway, I shouldn’t complain.
Via Danger Room I came across this interesting article in the the Army Times ‘Army tries to supplant Taliban...
Dr Nick Ritchie, a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in the Bradford Disarmament Research Centre, presented his developing ideas on the options for renewing Trident to a recent workshop at the Corbett Centre for Maritime Policy Studies.
In a period of...
