In this article Captain Crispin Swayne describes being a military and historical advisor to the film and tv industry, most recently on Kenneth Brannagh's version of Mozart's Magic Flute set in World War One, and Joe Wright's film of Ian McEwan's 'Atonement' set in World War Two.
Military Authenticity on tv and film
Showing posts with label Advising military historical film tv. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Advising military historical film tv. Show all posts
Monday, 26 November 2007
Saturday, 17 November 2007
Trouble on Blackwater Farm
The trouble with mercenaries is...
Mercenaries aren't accountable on the normal military chain of command. They're in it for the money. Which is the biggest problem facing any government body today. Where the bottom line is more important than people, the people pay, in this case with their lives.
Mercenaries aren't accountable on the normal military chain of command. They're in it for the money. Which is the biggest problem facing any government body today. Where the bottom line is more important than people, the people pay, in this case with their lives.
Thursday, 8 November 2007
Para Trouble
Paras in Sngin
They're at it again! Will we never learn?
If you want a war, send in the Para's.
We all hope not to be in the kind of bar fight where you have to take the lead off your bull terrior. Once you've slipped 'Rocky' off the chain, before vanishing in the opposite direction, you hope your victim's relatives don't know your home address.
Trouble is, since 1969 and arguably before, the British Government has been slipping 'Rocky' off the leash with disaterous consequences. Northern Ireland, Iraq, Afghanistan. What do these places have in common? The trouble got worse after the Para's came to town.
And now we see three regular Para regiments are getting ready for the Spring Offensive in Afghanistan in '08. Sure, we can rely on these boys to kick arse, but, in these days of 'hearts and minds', without proper reconstruction of the society we are trying to 'improve', the aggresive ripple we throw out there will come bouncing right back to our own front door. Knowing what 'Rocky's' like, what is the Government playing at?
They're at it again! Will we never learn?
If you want a war, send in the Para's.
We all hope not to be in the kind of bar fight where you have to take the lead off your bull terrior. Once you've slipped 'Rocky' off the chain, before vanishing in the opposite direction, you hope your victim's relatives don't know your home address.
Trouble is, since 1969 and arguably before, the British Government has been slipping 'Rocky' off the leash with disaterous consequences. Northern Ireland, Iraq, Afghanistan. What do these places have in common? The trouble got worse after the Para's came to town.
And now we see three regular Para regiments are getting ready for the Spring Offensive in Afghanistan in '08. Sure, we can rely on these boys to kick arse, but, in these days of 'hearts and minds', without proper reconstruction of the society we are trying to 'improve', the aggresive ripple we throw out there will come bouncing right back to our own front door. Knowing what 'Rocky's' like, what is the Government playing at?
Wednesday, 7 November 2007
"The war as we saw it"
HOWS THE WAR GOING?
May they rest in peace. From the horses mouth report. Two of the active-duty U.S. soldiers who wrote a controversial Op-Ed in the New York Times questioning the direction of the Iraq war died Monday in Baghdad. Here are their words.
May they rest in peace. From the horses mouth report. Two of the active-duty U.S. soldiers who wrote a controversial Op-Ed in the New York Times questioning the direction of the Iraq war died Monday in Baghdad. Here are their words.
guananamo link:
The lunatics have taken over the asylum
We sound more like the regimes we're trying to change.
We sound more like the regimes we're trying to change.
Guantanamo -where it all went wrong
Did Chertoff lie to Congress about Guantánamo?
He told the Senate that Pentagon interrogation methods were "plain vanilla," but e-mails reveal his top staff met weekly with FBI officials who said they were torture
By Mark Benjamin
He told the Senate that Pentagon interrogation methods were "plain vanilla," but e-mails reveal his top staff met weekly with FBI officials who said they were torture
By Mark Benjamin
Thursday, 25 October 2007
The collapse of Bush's foreign policy
From Turkey to Iraq to Pakistan, the mounting chaos proves the White House is just winging it
By Juan Cole http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2007/10/24/kurds/?source=newsletter
By Juan Cole http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2007/10/24/kurds/?source=newsletter
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