Defence and Freedom
2025/08/05

The finiteness of self-defence

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. I wrote about extremist warfare in 2009 . The idea was that maximalist war objectives such as total annexation or unconditional surrender ...
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2025/08/02

Guilty or not?

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. Suppose a man gets killed in his home. He had a long and violent dispute with his neighbour.   Should the police investigate said neighbou...
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2025/07/11

A track record that needs no hiding

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. I searched for an old blog post to quote and instead found a blog post-sized comment of mine (colouration added): I covered Russia previ...
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2025/07/05

The direct/indirect/antiair fires tank concept

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. I wrote in the past about tanks that have a unusually high maximum elevation of their main gun and can be used for indirect fires and for...
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2025/06/22

Due to recent events...

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. I'd like to remind you that any NATO member attack on another country without permission by the United Nations is a violation of the N...
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2025/06/16

Hostility caused by fundamental misunderstanding

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. I ask you to read this (shockingly, already 15 years old!) blog post first: /2010/09/do-opponents-misunderstand-each-other.html So, Iran ...
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2025/06/13

Issues with "self defence"

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. Countries are entitled to defend themselves against aggression, that's universally accepted international law and almost everyone (exc...
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2025/06/06

Minimum army weapons set, revisited

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. I like to cut things down to essentials, so I wrote in 2023 about a minimum weapons sset for an army. To have very few different weapons h...
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2025/06/05

Rackets

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. So according to the news, the German minister of defence comes with news from NATO; according to NATO directives or whatever Germany is su...
2025/06/01

In-war deterrence by nukes

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. It's about time to spell out something painfully obvious, because I don't see anyone else doing it: Russia would have lost this wa...
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