"In most West European countries, and certainly in Britain, there would be a rally around the flag response. "But if you want sophisticated equipment, that does take time and the defence industries have got to gear up for it."...
In the interest of working together to detect and stop such threats, the two nations signed an agreement to form NORAD on May 12, 1958 [source: National Defence of Canada]. It was originally known as North American Air Defense Command, but "Air" was changed to "Aerospace" to reflect the...
Referendums are therefore very rare. But very little polling has been done on Britain's support of Ukraine. That support is likely to be strained, however, as the cost of living crisis continues to bite. As we struggle with soaring bills and shiver in our homes ...
Furthermore Britain is often described as having a more individualistic, less family-oriented culture than much of the continent (Lowenstein, Citation2010; Reher, Citation1998), which could also be expected to reduce the amount of adults who feel obliged to support an older relative. If ...
At the same time, no matter how much Western leaders may dislike the term, “moral equivalence” between Russian invasion and past U.S. interventions is being drawn. To cite Amin Saikal, an Afghan-Australian scholar and a leading authority on Middle East: in invading Ukraine, “President Vlad...
Britain's foreign minister, Liz Truss, said on June 28 the West needs to "double down" on weapons supplies. She told a parliamentary committee Britain should have started supplying weapons much earlier because it takes months of training before they can be used. "The best thing we can ...
Palliser’s natural intelligence, social skills and outdoor accomplishments revealed his true talents; writes Spry, ‘as much at home in Rome or Heidelberg as he was in Dublin or London, on a Scottish grouse moor or in the Swiss Alps as he was in the wild, beautiful Comeragh Mountains of...
An impressive career, yes, but it’s doubtful any of this gave him much comfort on December 15. That was when he was called in from vacation for an 8:30 a.m. meeting with his employer, the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH), one ofthe largest mental health and addiction ...
The most likely alternatives for globalised power-politics – Spain or France or possibly the Dutch or the Russians – had most of the same faults and arguable less of Britain’s virtues. Several of the smaller European nations did much less harm, but also not much good outside their own ...