Bowalley Road

Ruminations of an Old New Zealander

Showing posts with label SAS. Show all posts
Showing posts with label SAS. Show all posts
Wednesday, 6 July 2011

New Zealand Troops In Afghanistan: "Mentoring" What?

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The Point Of The Spear: Far from "mentoring" (such a wonderfully un-military term) Afghan policemen from a safe distance, the New...
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Sunday, 1 May 2011

Code Red

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"You can't handle the truth!" Colonel Jessep defends the darkness behind the wire in Aaron Sorkin's A Few Good Men . When...
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Wednesday, 27 April 2011

Forgotten Lessons

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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...
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Monday, 8 November 2010

Who Dares Wins - Cash!?

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Hero - or side-show attraction?: It's hard to see how hawking the reputation of Victoria Cross winner, Corporal Willie Apiata, to fee-pa...
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Friday, 14 August 2009

What are we fighting for?

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"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...
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Chris Trotter
Chris Trotter has spent most of his adult life either engaging in or writing about politics. He was the founding editor of The New Zealand Political Review (1992-2005) and in 2007 authored No Left Turn, a political history of New Zealand. Living in Auckland with his wife and daughter, Chris describes himself as an “Old New Zealander” – i.e. someone who remembers what the country was like before Rogernomics. He has created this blog as an archive for his published work and an outlet for his more elegiac musings. It takes its name from Bowalley Road, which runs past the North Otago farm where he spent the first nine years of his life. Enjoy.
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