Even A Pacifist Should Admire The Military

We Forget Today That Britain Still Depends For Its Livelihood And, Indeed, Its Day-to-day Survival, On The Sea. But The Royal Navy Is Now Pitifully Small And Has Been Reduced In Size By The Current Government, Seeking Economies To Finance Its Social Programmes. Fine While There Is No Threat To Our Security. But What Use Would Schools And Hospitals Be If We Could Not Protect Our Imports?

The Islam Of The 18th, 19th And First Half Of The 20th Century Was A Poor Thing. Nobody Bothered About It. Islam Was That Funny Sort Of Pure System Of Beliefs That Depressed People In The Middle East Held As Their Religion.

Of Whatever Class Or Nation, However, All Successful Participants In The Repetitive And Unrelenting Stress Of Aerial Fighting Came Eventually To Display Its Characteristic Physiognomy: Skeletal Hands, Sharpened Noses, Tight-drawn Cheek Bones, The Bared Teeth Of A Rictus Smile And The Fixed, Narrowed Gaze Of Men In A State Of Controlled Fear.

The Historian Ought To Be An Educated Person, Writing For Other Educated People About Something Which They Don't Know About, But Wish To Know About In A Way That They Can Understand.

The Second World War Is The Largest Single Event In Human History, Fought Across Six Of The World's Seven Continents And All It Oceans. It Killed 50 Million Human Beings, Left Hundreds Of Millions Of Others Wounded In Mind Or Body And Materially Devastated Much Of The Heartland Of Civilization.