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Jonathan Boff
@JonathanBoff
Historian of warfare, and of money in modern wars. All views my own and all usual disclaimers also apply. New book ‘Haig’s Enemy’. published by OUP 2018. Ho/hum
Nov 12, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
This book is first-rate. There is barely a page on the 1930s which does not resonate today, as the U.K. struggled to build a grand strategy against simultaneous threats in Europe and Asia, with unreliable allies in Europe and the USA, and all…. ….against a backdrop of economic austerity. There, not on facile equations of Hitler with Putin, is where the real analogies between the 1930s and today operate.
Everyone interested in U.K. defence and strategy should read this book.
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Apr 2, 2022 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
I have deliberately not had much to say here about the war in Ukraine.
Partly this is because I have no special information, contacts or insight into what is happening day to day.
Largely however it’s because I think that the more interesting questions extend beyond Ukraine 1/n 2/n and are more strategic than tactical or operational. Good luck to those interested in the latter: many are doing a great job giving blow-by-blows. And I don’t mean to dismiss the heroic and very impressive Ukrainian defence and defenders. Good luck to them.