
123rd Officer Cadet Training Regiment, Royal Artillery, 1942
A group portrait of the R.A. from 1942, an inauspicious time to go through training

The Battle of Chile and the wonder of movie theaters
The Battle of Chile is a great film that was made more powerful by the sound of anguish in the audience

Was the coup in Egypt even necessary?
Morsi might have been forced from power anyway, but the military short circuited that

Video of the Egyptian army running over civilians with APCs
But the Egyptian army rules the country, so it is the protesters who face military trials
A landmark moment in Turkey
The decades-long shadow play between the military and the state took a most dramatic turn last week

The truth about the Egyptian military
In the revolution, Egyptian reverence for the military shamed them into not opening fire. Now what happens?