The War Room
Dr Robert Lyman MBEIdeas and commentary on historical matters and subjects associated with modern international relations, sometimes associated with my writing, and sometimes not!
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Senior Officer Casualties at Kohima
Many of you will know that I’m currently writing my ‘big’ book on Kohima. I’ve chosen the title from a comment made by one of Sato’s staff officers. I think it captures the bitter ferocity of the fighting perfectly.
It is being published...
Tanks, their past, present and future
Hamish de Bretton Gordon has written something of a love letter to the tank in British military service. Its a good, short, snappy read, Hamish emphasising throughout that tanks are important components of battlefield mobility, and need to...
An audiobook experiment
About half of all my books sales are audio books. Most of my earlier works, however, are not yet on audio so I’ve decided to dip my toes in self-published audio book market with the the help of AI. I’ve chosen ElevenReader to do it and have...
Is War Studies in the U.K. on its last legs?
Sir Michael Howard 1920-2019
One of the casualties of our pacific generation is not merely a disinterest in issues of defence – this is embarrassingly observable across the entire spectrum of political discourse, despite the spectacular in...
Baron Bill von de Ropp
Retired British diplomat Tim Willasey-Wilsey is to be congratulated in bringing back to our collective memory the story of the expatriate Baltic baron who proved to be Britain’s greatest spy in the heart of the Nazi Party’s heart of darknes...
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I was once a soldier. My five degrees are in history, international affairs, war studies, military technology and the operational art of General Bill Slim, the latter being my PhD. www.robertlyman.com.
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