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The SIOT Concept: One Foundation for SL Army Success in Eelam War IV
Colonel HP Ranasinghe: “The Eight Man Team,” 17 August 2018, https://lrrp.wordpress.com/tag/special-infantry/. Sri Lanka builds its future soldier capability around Special Forces, used to great effect against the LTTE insurgency. Sri Lanka is continuing its soldier modernisation plans continuing with the … Continue reading →
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Facing Corona Foursquare: An Aussie Comprehensive
Sheryn Groch, in Sydney Morning Herald, 18 March 2020, “How are countries ‘flattening the curve’ of coronavirus?” …. https://www.smh.com.au/national/how-are-countries-flattening-the-curve-of-coronavirus-20200317-p54b3g.html Large parts of the world are shutting down to stem the spread of a new virus. What measures are working? And … Continue reading →
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Sharpening Politico-Religious Divisions in Sri Lanka
Dear Rohan, Your thoughtful note has provoked this set of comments — comments that range far and wide. I will. of course, welcome your reactions and hope that others will chip in with both comments and data. Michael One: Note … Continue reading →
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Australian Aboriginal Sense of Belonging … and Nawarla Gabarnmang
Christopher Allen, in The Weekend Australian, 22/23 June 2019, with this title “Timeless Sense of Belonging” Our concept of the spirit of place has a long history. The Latin expression genius loci referred originally to the tutelary divinity of a place, within … Continue reading →
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Chinese Loans and Sri Lanka: Nishan de Mel’s Clarification on Video
A NOTE from a PAL in Britain: “The American media egged on by the politicians have been quite scathing about Sri Lanka’s borrowing from China. Please watch this short video below and understand that the USA has a different agenda … Continue reading →
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Holy War Unmasked
Brian Victoria …… Send not to know for whom the bell tolls, it tolls for thee. John Donne Introduction: Is religion a force for peace or war? Or to borrow a phrase from the title of Christopher Hitchen’s book, God … Continue reading →
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The Japanese Air Raid on Ceylon, Easter 1942
Jayantha Somasundaram, courtesy of Colombo Telegraph, 18 April 2019, where the title is “The Most Dangerous Moment” “British Prime Minister Winston Churchill considered the most dangerous moment of the Second World War, and the one which caused him the … Continue reading →
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Sri Lanka’s Cricketing Heroes Past and Present Honoured by LMD
LANKA MONTHLY DIGEST features “Lions of Lanka” at http://www.lionsofsl.lk/ …. and ….https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=140383510358313&id=100031599941140&sfnsn=mo Roshan Abeysinghe: “WORLD CUP GLORY” thoughts on the history making World Cup victory in 1996
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Alan Keenan of the ICG comments on the Presidential Election Results in Sri Lanka
Alan Keenan of the International Crisis Group, …. deploying this title “Sri Lanka’s Presidential Election Brings Back a Polarising Wartime Figure” Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s decisive victory in Sri Lanka’s presidential election reflects voters’ concerns over security, poor economic prospects and ineffective … Continue reading →
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Hanging Israel Folau: Corporate Power in ‘Marriage’ with the Bigotry of Progressives
Steven Chavura, in The Australian, 25 April 2019, with this title “Beware the Choke Tackle of Diversity” In the seminal textbook of liberalism, On Liberty (1859), John Stuart Mill depicted a Victorian England full of prudishness and prejudice, describing social convention, rather … Continue reading →
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