The Legacy of the Boer War: British Army Procurement and Logistics before 1914

Strategy, battles and tactics may win wars but the inability to prosecute them ends in defeat. The First World War illustrates how the capacity to produce arms and materiel efficiently dictates the ultimate outcome. The British experience in the decade prior to 1914 is an interesting one. This article examines problems arising from the British Army’s experiences in the Boer War; subsequent enquiries and some of the lessons learnt ‒ and forgotten ‒ over the pre-war decades. It was this environment which explains the often forgotten logistics weaknesses that threatened the British Army’s fighting capacity in 1914

Nouville and Purana Qila Internment Camps and Collective Memory

Nouville in New Caledonia and Purana Qila in India both housed interned Japanese civilians during the Second World War. While both camps involved the ‘reuse’ of existing sites, Purana Qila’s use is largely forgotten while Nouville’s is officially acknowledged. This article contrasts the ‘forgetting’ of Purana Qila and the ‘remembering’ of Nouville and argues that the presence of a local group advocating for Nouville has served to ensure that its use as an internment camp is part of the collective memory. The lack of a similar group in India has seen Purana Qila’s use as an internment camp largely forgotten

Time Traveler (English version)

I have been suffering from post-traumatic stress syndrome which impacted on my career and the fulfillment of childhood dreams. I started practicing art therapy at the recommendation of my therapist. That practice helped me improve my symptoms. This work speaks about my analysis of the past as much as my expectations about the future

Soviet nuclear munitions in Czechoslovakia: 1965-1991

Under a Czechoslovak-Soviet treaty signed in 1965, the rapidly developing missile forces and air force of the Czechoslovak People’s Army (Czech acronym and hereinafter ‘ČSLA’) were to be strengthened with the addition of nuclear munitions. These were to be used to support planned operations on the so-called Czechoslovak Front. Operation JAVOR consisted of the construction of three nuclear depots, which were manned by special units of the Soviet Army. A new agreement between the CSSR and the USSR was entered into in 1986, extending the existing conditions of storage. Fundamental changes were brought about in 1989 by the Velvet Revolution and the end of the Cold War