| |
Saturday, January 12, 2013
Brian Cloughley
Before proposing the best way to resolve difficulties or at least improve the situation along the Line of Control (LoC) in Kashmir, let me make it clear that claims of beheading of an Indian soldier by troops of the Pakistan army are ...
|
Saturday, January 05, 2013
Brian Cloughley
Maybe I’m a bit biased, having served in a UN peacekeeping mission and thus making and maintaining contact with some urbane and highly intelligent people in the UN headquarters in New York, but my contention is that in spite of ...
|
Saturday, December 22, 2012
Brian Cloughley
There have been many strange statements by US senior military officers over the years, and one of the more intriguing came last week from Marine Corps Maj Gen Larry D Nicholson, the deputy chief of staff (operations) at Nato’s joint ...
|
Saturday, December 15, 2012
Brian Cloughley
Publications in Pakistan and overseas have claimed that the Pakistan Air Force (PAF) has grave problems with its aircraft. The Hindustan Times copied the story of Time magazine (now, alas, a pale shadow of its former sparkling self) ...
|
Saturday, December 15, 2012
Brian Cloughley
Publications in Pakistan and overseas have claimed that the Pakistan Air Force (PAF) has grave problems with its aircraft. The Hindustan Times copied the story of Time magazine (now, alas, a pale shadow of its former sparkling self) ...
|
Saturday, December 01, 2012
Brian Cloughley
The US Arms Control Association noted in August that “The United Nations Security Council has adopted six resolutions as part of international efforts to address Iran’s nuclear programme.” And as a result of being considered ...
|
Saturday, November 17, 2012
Brian Cloughley
The publication Defence News comments expertly on military topics and recently described the performance of the US Air Force in supplying troops in Afghanistan with vital stores. It noted that last year “43 forward operating bases ...
|
Friday, August 10, 2012
Brian Cloughley
On September 8 BBC Radio 4 and the World Service will broadcast a dramatised documentary about the murder last year of Punjab’s Governor Salmaan Taseer by one of his security guards, Mumtaz Qadri. I’ve listened to the programme and, ...
|
Saturday, July 28, 2012
Brian Cloughley
Air travel isn’t much fun these days, what with searches, pat-downs, holdups, crowds and queues, so it’s good when sometimes you can have a laugh while travelling, which I did when reading a newspaper report. It made me hoot with ...
|
Sunday, June 10, 2012
Brian Cloughley
On 11-12 June there are to be talks in Islamabad between the defence secretaries of India and Pakistan about the Siachen catastrophe. But failure warnings went out early, with India’s defence minister AK Antony declaring that we ...
|
|