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Tag Archives: failure
Ireland’s Wars: The First Plantation
Ireland had changed. As the 1540’s went by and Henry VIII left this mortal coil, it was clear that the Tudor dynasty had greater plans for Ireland then a fallback to the previous position of limited intervention and reliance on … Continue reading
Posted in History, Ireland, Ireland's Wars, Politics, War
Tagged 1550's, edward, failure, henry, ireland, irelands wars, laois, lord deputy's, mary, o'connor, o'more, offaly, plantation, tudors, war
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NFB’s Decisive Battles Of The World: Crecy
Going way back from my previous entry, but the same combatants. Name: The Battle of Crecy, sometimes called the Battle of Cressy The War: The early phase of the Hundred Years War When: 26 August 1346 Where: Near the village … Continue reading
Posted in History, NFBs Decisive Battles Of The World, War
Tagged black death, black prince, cannon, cavalry, charge, chivalry, crecy, crossbow, decisive battles, edward iii, england, failure, france, history, hundred years war, john of bohemia, knights, longbow, longbowmen, mounted, philip vi, poiteirs, war
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Terrorism=Nuisance
The death of Ronan Kerr is troubling, obviously, and one wonders just what kind of reaction we should expect. Terrorism is something that we will never be able to fully eradicate, anymore then you could ever fully eradicate fundamentalist teachings … Continue reading
Posted in Ireland, Politics
Tagged failure, ignore, ira, law and order, northern ireland, nuisance, omagh, police, psni, ronan kerr, terrorism, union, unite
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Intervention In Libya: An Awful Idea
This is a very bad, very stupid, very emotionally driven idea. The problems are obvious and should be to anyone with the slightest hint of intelligence. -Western air power will kill innocent civilians. -It will cost an extreme amount of … Continue reading
Posted in Libya, Middle East, Politics, War
Tagged arab league, bad, benghazi, eu, failure, gaddafi, intervention, libya, no-fly zone, rebels, resoultion, security council, somalia, stupid, support, tanks, UN, us, west
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Success And Nowhere (One Day To Election)
How thin the line between the two, eh? (referring to the title there). Little of substance actually happening today, other than the final rallying calls, the last desperate attempts to gain a few paltry votes. You do notice as time goes … Continue reading
Posted in General Election 2011, Ireland, Limerick, Politics
Tagged campaign, failure, fianna fail, fine gael, general election 2011, greens, independents, ireland, labour, last day, limerick, politics, sinn fein, success, ula
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The AfPak Dominos
Let’s take a look at the line of dominos that are rapidly tumbling into one another in the Afghanistan/Pakistan region. We start with the situation: two countries, newly introduced to democracy with a substantial insurgent movement operating within their borders. … Continue reading
Posted in Afghanistan, Counter Insurgency (COIN), Middle East, Politics, War
Tagged Afghanistan, afpak, air strikes, assange, collapse, corruption, coup, dominoes, failure, floods, international aid, isaf, middle east, military, nato, obama, pakistan, pashtunistan, politics, saigon, strategic reset, supply route, taliban, UN, us, war, withdrawl
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