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The Western Sun Sets: What nation, looking aghast at the chaos and confusion created by the United States precipitate withdrawal from Afghan...

Kabul, Afghanistan. 16/8/21:   There is always an enthusiastic audience for tales of imperial ruin. The Western Left will have watched the h...

Barred Vision: The problem for western feminists is that, in spite of their cultural and political self-denying ordinances against critic...

From What? Are the Taliban laying siege to Buckingham Palace? Are Predator drones taking out shoppers in Slough? The carefully manufacture...

Hail To The Chief: Members of the New Zealand Provincial Reconstruction Team based in Bamiyan Province, Afghanistan, welcome US General ...

The Point Of The Spear: Far from "mentoring" (such a wonderfully un-military term) Afghan policemen from a safe distance, the New...

"You can't handle the truth!" Colonel Jessep defends the darkness behind the wire in Aaron Sorkin's A Few Good Men . When...

Cry Havoc: To hand over prisoners to mistreatment and torture is a clear breach of the Geneva Conventions - but this is what New Zealand SA...

Blood on Our Hands: Is the price of New Zealand’s re-admission to the Anglo-Saxon club now to be measured in the blood of her children? IT’S...

A war host at their back: The anti-mining march up Auckland's Queen Street on May Day, in terms of providing powerful images, was much m...

"We are so small between the stars, so large against the sky": Afghanistan has laid low the hubris of conquerors for two-and-a-ha...