The Russian army is a ‘formidable foe’ and ‘significantly more lethal’ now than when Putin invaded Ukraine, one of the UK’s top army chiefs has warned. Lt Gen Mike Elviss, who commands a key NATO ...
Here’s What You Need to Know: A British general fought … and failed. The United Kingdom’s 2010 Strategic Defense and Security Review—a budget drill, really—imposed devastating cuts to what had been ...
Thomas Gage struck words and added notes in the margins, pressing his quill hard in some spots on the most consequential letter he would ever write. The British general finished his final draft and on ...
Jonathan Schneer’s Nine Days in May is miserable history. It is a book written to explain to workers that the 1926 British General Strike was doomed to defeat, as proof of the impossibility of all ...
The following lecture was delivered by Chris Marsden, the national secretary of the Socialist Equality Party (UK), at the SEP (US) International Summer School, held August 2-9, 2025. This is the ...
The General Strike was “the greatest effort the British workers had ever made,” wrote the historian and economist G.D.H.Cole. One hundred years ago, on May 4, 1926, a million British workers walked ...
A British army officer in September will be the first non-American to lead NATO’s Joint Force Command Norfolk, which runs combat operations in the Atlantic, Northern Europe and Arctic. Lt. Gen. Nick ...
Thomas Gage, by J. Shy.--William Howe, by M.A. Jones.--Henry Clinton, by W.B. Willcox.--Guy Carleton, by P.H. Smith.--John Burgoyne, by G. A. Billias.--Charles Lord ...