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Strategic role of FPDA World War 2

Strategic role of FPDA

LETTERS: THE upcoming 50th anniversary of the Five Powers Defence Arrangement (FPDA) marks a significant milestone of exceptional foresight and strategic collective security pact forged in facing security needs after World War 2 and during the Cold War. © New Straits Times Press (M) Bhd...Read More
bubmag
October 21, 2021
Nobody Gives a Rat’s Ass Whether the Debt Ceiling Gets Folded Into Reconciliation World War 2

Nobody Gives a Rat’s Ass Whether the Debt Ceiling Gets Folded Into Reconciliation

In victory, it’s advisable to be magnanimous. This sentiment, typically attributed to Winston Churchill (it’s in the frontispiece to his multivolume History of the Second World War), is understood to be a moral imperative, but it’s also a strategic one. Magnanimity in victory is strategically wise because, if you don’t…
bubmag
October 8, 2021
COVID-19 pandemic cut life expectancy by most since World War Two –study World War 2

COVID-19 pandemic cut life expectancy by most since World War Two –study

A medical worker wearing protective gear stands next to an ambulance outside a hospital for patients infected with COVID-19 in Kyiv, Ukraine, November 24, 2020. REUTERS/Gleb Garanich LONDON, Sept 27 (Reuters) - The COVID-19 pandemic reduced life expectancy in 2020 by the largest amount since World War Two, according to…
bubmag
September 27, 2021
Back in the game World War 2

Back in the game

In the immediate years after the Second World War, attendances for football matches in the UK increased significantly. By 1948-49, attendances reached 41 million, the peak for the Football League. To put that in context, the total attendance for the Premier League and EFL in 2018-19- the last full season…
bubmag
September 23, 2021
The revival of Berlin Inc World War 2

The revival of Berlin Inc

The German capital reasserts itself as a business hub CONVENTIONAL WISDOM has it that the capital of Europe’s most powerful economy is poor, bolshie, chronically indebted and utterly reliant on subsidies from richer states. The debacle of the construction of the Berlin-Brandenburg airport, completed in 2020 nine years late and…
bubmag
September 23, 2021