Posted by RDN under Military Covenant / Mind and body / Politics and campaigns on 8 November 2011. No comments.
The British Computer Society asked me to be one of two responders at a debate dinner featuring Trevor Phillips of the Equality and Human Rights Commission (7 November 2011).
The question was: will it be possible for someone to be a full citizen without digital access? More »
Posted by RDN under Military Covenant / Politics and campaigns on 9 October 2010. No comments.
Better late than never, I read this memoir which is destined to be a classic, surely. More »
Posted by RDN under Military Covenant on 18 August 2010. One comment.
A little late, I know, I picked this book up whilst hanging around to see a movie. It might have been The Hurt Locker or The Ghost, and either is relevant. More »
Posted by RDN under At the movies / Military Covenant on 8 March 2010. 2 comments.
The courage of EOD – bomb disposal – staff is well worth celebrating and Kathryn Bigelow’s The Hurt Locker does it brilliantly. Still, this is perhaps not all that accurate an account of the trade. More »
Posted by RDN under Military Covenant / Politics and campaigns on 2 March 2010. No comments.
The British military tradition is real, but it is up for grabs. Here is my account of a British military which becomes large, clever, multi-purpose, and is deployed worldwide. Along the way, it becomes more commercial, more part-time and more argumentative. More »
Posted by RDN under Military Covenant on 24 January 2010. No comments.
I keep meaning to try to do justice to the books I read. Here is a list of some of the things which rocked my world in 2009. More »
Posted by RDN under Military Covenant on 15 November 2009. No comments.
Body-counts and other metrics about casualties aren’t everything by a long shot, but we need to find ways to think about the computable “costs of war”. That will contribute to an assessment of its moral dimensions. So far, I’m finding the numbers hard to find, let alone think about. More »
Posted by RDN under Military Covenant on 15 November 2009. No comments.
The British military tradition is real, but it is up for grabs. Here are some thoughts about modern trends. More »
Posted by RDN under Military Covenant on 15 November 2009. No comments.
Whether or not any war is “worthwhile” is never a pretty discussion. But it may be worth trying out some quite tough thinking, so here goes. I conclude (to my own surpirse) that the most important single factor is the military’s enthusiasm. More »
Posted by RDN under Military Covenant on 5 November 2009. No comments.
I am keen to develop some lines of argument about the Military Covenant. I suspect that the relationship between society and the military is going to change fundamentally. It may get tougher for the military. More »
