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News in-depthIsrael-Hamas war
Gaza crisis threatens to spill over borders into Egypt
...“We don’t have a reference point for that” from previous wars, said Hanna. “Pressure from within Israel on Netanyahu to negotiate might impact when the mediation starts.”...
October 10, 2023
News in-depthUS politics & policy
New head of the US military aims to dodge the political fray
...At Brown’s swearing-in on Friday, Milley said: “We don’t take an oath to a wannabe-dictator . . . And we are not easily intimidated.”...
September 30, 2023
FT Live
Future of Asset Management Europe
New fund firm models for Europe's resurgence
Tuesday, 12 NovemberLondon, UK
Sudan
‘No good options’ as countries race to evacuate diplomatic staff from Sudan
...“There are no good options and we don’t have confidence that any of them are safe.”...
April 21, 2023
ReviewThriller books
Thriller round-up — from the Gulag to Glasgow grit
...There is plenty of menace in White Fox (Bantam, £18.99/Doubleday, $28), the last volume of Owen Matthews’ outstanding trilogy featuring KGB Lt Col Alexander Vasin....
April 3, 2023
The Big Read
How China’s military is slowly squeezing Taiwan
...“Assuming you don’t give in, there’s really no way for China to win unless they have boots on the ground,” says Lt Gen Steven Rudder, who retired last year as head of US Marine Corps forces in the Indo-Pacific...
July 24, 2023
News in-depthWar in Ukraine
Ukrainian army recruits put boots on British ground to prepare for combat
...“Battlefields are dirty, noisy, smelly and frightening,” said Lt Colonel Jon Harris, who is in charge of training Ukrainians at this UK site....
November 11, 2022
FT Live
Commodities Asia Summit
Enabling decarbonisation in a time of disrupted trade flows
Wednesday, 6 NovemberSingapore
HTSI
Inside the secret world of the bodyguard
...War veteran Lt Col Tim Spicer, who served in the Falklands and Northern Ireland, founded Sandline International, a private military company, on retiring in 1994....
November 30, 2022
In the footsteps of . . .
Across the Pyrenees in the footsteps of a wartime heroine
...Maintain a steady pace, said the guide, trying to be encouraging — don’t keep stopping. But thankfully, we did stop regularly for water and snacks....
November 19, 2022
Andrew Hill
The army has skills that government clearly lacks
...The armed forces are an “insurance policy”, says Lt Col Langley Sharp, head of the Centre for Army Leadership at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst....
October 4, 2021
ReviewThriller books
Genre round-up — the best in thrillers
...Like Lt Col Vasin, Casey Benedict, an undercover journalist, is also focused and obsessive....
August 16, 2021
Special ReportSudan after the revolution
Three men who hold Sudan’s fate in their hands
...“I don’t think he can control things, or even influence the future of Sudan,” he says....
January 26, 2021
South Korea Politics & Policy
South Korea aims for military independence as Asia threats rise
...“But I don’t expect another 70 years of unilateral support. We need to be more independent, just to be a good ally.”...
January 6, 2021
News in-depthIsrael-Hamas war
Gazans describe terror of Israeli bombing: ‘Together we count out loud the explosions’
...“I don’t know when it will end this time,” he added. “But I am afraid it will last long.”...
May 16, 2021
Special ReportSudan after the revolution
Sudan faces hard road to democracy as revolutionary euphoria fades
...Better known as “Hemeti”, Lt Gen Hamdan, a former camel trader and warlord, is a militia commander and vice-chair of the sovereign council....
January 26, 2021
Equities
Markets Now - Thursday 13th August 2020
...But we don’t have any concerns over its longer term survival and expect patience to be rewarded....
August 13, 2020
FT Live
Africa Summit
Africa in a complex world
Tuesday, 29 OctoberLondon, UK
Equities
Markets Now - Wednesday 2nd September
...Gym Group, the gym group, is unchanged after interim results that don’t reveal a whole lot....
September 2, 2020
Equities
Markets Now - Wednesday 12th August 2020
...We don’t think it is particularly cheap. Zalando is on 1.5x EV/GMV but we have much more confidence in the LT trajectory of margin at Zalando so prefer that name....
August 12, 2020
News in-depthThe Big Read
Why big pharma sees a remedy in data and AI
...I still think we’re a long way away [from that] because we don’t understand so much about human biology....
January 26, 2020
Mali
Mali violence escalates as peace accords crumble
...Council decides to limit [Minusma’s] scope, I think it would be [prudent] to make a risk assessment on the areas we’re reducing and ideally there would be others who would step in to fill the void,” said Lt...
March 15, 2020
Equities
Markets Now - Tuesday 1st September
...Reflecting the LT margin upside potential, we change our valuation methodology to a DCF using 6.8% WACC and 3.5% terminal growth rate....
September 1, 2020
Equities
Markets Now - Tuesday 18th August 2020
...We continue to believe that the pandemic has led to acceleration of digital shift, a LT benefit for PRX....
August 18, 2020
Equities
Markets Now - Monday 20th April 2020
...Don’t touch. Reduce....
April 20, 2020
Donald Trump
Donald Trump emboldened to seek vengeance after acquittal
...impeachment’s over, now that Russia is over, now that the collusion hoax is done, the illegitimate impeachment sham has finished, [the Democrats] are looking for something else to grab on to because they don't...
February 13, 2020
Global adventures to quicken the pulse and stir the soul
Wade Davis on the art of exploring
...His first book, My Amazon Adventure, includes a foreword by Lt Gen Edward “Teddy” Norton, Mallory’s close companion and the leader of the 1924 Everest Expedition....
September 2, 2020
FT AlphavilleJemima Kelly
Is it acceptable for government to be dishonest at a time like this?
...Jessup fires back at Tom Cruise’s Lt. Daniel Kaffee in the 1992 film A Few Good Men, in response to being told “I want the truth!”...
May 5, 2020

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