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Review: Cybersecurity: The Beginner’s Guide – by Dr Erdal Ozkaya
I am just about to embark in an online professional cybersecurity course with Masterschool in Tel Aviv, Israel. I am a relative novice in this field and in order to be as prepared as possible for the new academic venture I bought this introductory text to bring me up to speed with the basic of… Continue reading
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Review: Kim – by Rudyard Kipling
‘Kim’ is recognised as the greatest work of famous author Rudyard Kipling. This is a cult novel especially in espionage circles. It is fiction but documents the widely popular Great Game between the British Empire and Tsarist Russia, a clandestine cat and mouse conflict between the two powers fought out on in British India and… Continue reading
British Empire, Buddhism, buddhist, Chela, classics, colonialism, enlightenment, espionage, fiction, Geography, Great Britain, Great Game, himalayas, Hindi, Hindu, Imperial India, India, Islam, KGB, Kim, kim philby, Kipling, lama, Little Friend of the World, mi6, Muslim, Musselman, Queen Victoris, Raj, religion, Rudyard Kipling, Russia, Sahib, Soviet Union, Spiritual, spy, The Great Game, The Wheel of Life, Travel, treachery, Tsar, Tsarist Russia, U.K., United Kingdom -
Review: The Dragons and the Snakes – How The Rest Learned to Fight The West – by David Kilcullen
This is one of the very best books I have ever read. It is up to date material and full of cutting edge military theory and ideas and I believe is critical essential reading for any politician or military personnel, especially those who conduct their employment in the NATO led West. I am no stranger… Continue reading
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Review: Red Notice – How I Became Putin’s No.1 Enemy – by Bill Browder
There is irony in this tale as Bill Browder was following in his grandfather’s footsteps in some ways but was also radically poles apart. Browder’s grandfather had stood for Presidential election in the USA on a Communist ticket. Bill Browder was drawn to business possibilities behind the Iron Curtain and in the post Cold War,… Continue reading
Barack Obama, Berlin Wall, Bill Browder, Capitalism, capitalist, City of London, cold war, Communism, Communist, corruption, crime, Eastern Europe, Europe, European, finance, Gangster, Hermitage, Hermitage Capital Management, Hermitage Fund, Human rights, international business, Iron Curtain, jail, Jew, Jewish, John Kerry, John McCain, justice, Kremlin, law, lawyer, London, Moscow, murder, oligarch, parliament, President, President Obama, prison, Putin, Red Notice, Roberrt Maxwell, Russia, Russian, sanctions, Sergei Magnitsky, Sergei Magnitsky Rule of Law Accountability Act, Soviet Union, Stanford, U.K., United States, USA, visa restrictions, Vladimir Putin, Washington, xorruption -
Review: The Great Game – On Secret Service in High Asia – by Peter Hopkirk
The Great Game, as immortalised by Rudyard Kipling in ‘Kim’ was the nineteenth century adventures in espionage between Russia and the U.K. across Central Asia. Both sides were on the verge of a full on military confrontation and sought advantage. The Russian Tsars sought territorial expansion across Asia and always had their eye on the… Continue reading
Afghanistan, Anglophobe, Asia, Britain, British, British Empire, British Geographical Society, China, CrimeaN WAR, espionage, exploration, Geographical Society, Geography, Great Britain, India, intrigue, Kim, London, Persia, Queen Victoria, Rudyard Kipling, Russia, Russian, Russophobe, spy, St Petersburg, The Great Game, Tibet, Tirkmenistan, Tsar, U.K., Vodka -
Review: Russians Among Us – Sleeper Cells & The Hunt for Putin’s Agents – by Gordon Correra
I’ve read Gordon Correra’s previous work in espionage literature and for this reason I was drawn to seek out this new offering. In the current climate of the Russian invasion of Ukraine under ex KGB spy, Vladimir Putin, I felt that this relatively recent work would highlight some of the ongoing dangers of Russian spies… Continue reading
Alexander Litvinenko, Alexander Poteyev, CIA, cold war, Communist, coomunism, DOnald Trump, espionage, FBI, FSB, Gordon Correra, GRU, illegals, KGB, London, mi6, Novichok, Polonium, Putin, Russia, Russian, Salisbury, Sergei Skripal, sleeper cells, Soviet Union, The Americans, the west, U.K., Ukraine, USA, Vladimir Putin, war -
Review: On War – by Carl von Clausewitz
In addition to Sun Tzu’s Art of War, this book authored by Prussian officer Carl von Clausewitz is the quintessential classic book on military theory. The book (although this edition was only an abridged version) puts forward in detail theory for all elements of war, from politics to military leadership, from defence to attack. It… Continue reading
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Review: Memoirs – by Mikhail Gorbachev
Mikhail Gorbachev was one of the most influential and critical figures of the twentieth century. When I was growing up in the 1980s he was part os a set of international world leaders that seemingly had much more influence over people than the political leaders of today. Gorbachev was the last leader of he Soviet… Continue reading
Baltic States, Belorussia, Berlin Wall, Boris Yeltsin, cold war, Communism, Communist, Crimea, espionage, François Mitterand, glasnost, Gorbachev, KGB, Mad, Margaret Thatcher, Mikhail Gorbachev, Military, NATO, Nomenclatura, perestroika, Politburo, Politics, Putin, Ronald Reagan, Russia, Soviet Union, Stalin, Ukraine, USSR, Vladmir Putin, Warsaw Pact, World Leader -
Review: Putin’s People – How the KGB took back Russia and then took on The West – by Catherine Belton
The author of this, the best study of Vladimir Putin that I have read to date, is Catherine Belton, a Financial Times journalist that was based in Moscow. It is a comprehensive study of the rise of Putin and how he has cemented a Tsar-like power as head of the New Russia. We go from… Continue reading
Belton, Boris Berezovsky, Boris Yeltsin, Brexit, Capitalism, Catherine Belton, cold war, Communism, Conservative, Conservative Party, Conservatives, corruption, crime, DOnald Trump, Dostoyevsky, espionage, Financial Times, FSB, Gangster, KGB, Kremlin, London, Londongrad, mafia, Mikhail Khodorkhovsky, Moscoow, Moscow, oligarch, Organised Crime, organized crime, Panama Papers, Putin, Roman Abramovich, Russia, Russian Mafia, siloviki, Soviet Union, spy, St Petersburg, Tambov, Tambov Group, Trump, Trump Towers, Tsar, U.K., Ukraine, USA, USSR, Vladimir Putin -
Review: A Great Perhaps? Colombia: Conflict and Convergence – by Dickie Davis, David Kilcullen, Greg Mills and David Spencer
David Kilcullen has had a few books included on my shelf recently. As a military expert on Guerrilla Warfare, I was thrilled to find this new book on the Colombian Civil War which he coauthors with a group of specialists who went on extensive field research around Colombia, with a view to learning lessons about… Continue reading
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