I’m in an introspective space today as I follow the on-going war in Ukraine. Putin’s generals (the ones still alive) don’t seem to have any smarts. A 65km convoy of tanks stuck on a road? What a target for an ambush. Putin’s last century tanks clearly can’t compete with modern weapons coming to the heavily…
You’re right, I didn’t do my usual Saturday blog. But it wasn’t because of the floods in South East Queensland. That has happened further south of Hervey Bay. We had about 75mm (3″) over several days, which is no big deal here. The biggest impact on Hervey Bay is that the roads to Brisbane are…
I can’t help thinking that we’re living through 1939 all over again. Czar Putin has his troops massed on Ukraine’s border. All he needs is an excuse to invade. Back in 1939, Hitler had security service (SD – Sicherheitsdienst in German) agents dressed in Polish uniforms attack a radio station in Poland and broadcast anti-German…
Vietnam was the war of my generation. While I marched in moratoriums, my male peers were conscripted into the army. About sixty thousand Australians served in Vietnam, a small number in comparison with the nearly three million Americans but even so the war left its battle scars. Five hundred and twenty-one Australians died and over…