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2019-06-13 08:04
Along with New Zealand - whose soldiers joined forces with Australians as ANZACs - Australians suffered the highest per-capita rates of casualties of all the British Empire dominions during… Read More
2019-06-06 15:02
There is more to the legacy of D-Day than just the memorials: the very sand at Omaha Beach retains remnants of the devastating battle Read More
2019-06-05 08:54
The brand of sovereign independence that Venezuela is displaying is intolerable to Washington Read More
2019-05-28 05:19
Back in October 2003, former US President George W Bush caused something of a stir in Australia and East Asia after he described then-Prime Minister John Howard’s government as America… Read More
2018-07-27 05:55
Filed in: Geopolitics Author: Brendan R Hay Predictably, Australia’s self-styled iron lady Foreign Minister Julie Bishop has shown her neo-conservative colours by not only siding… Read More
2018-07-20 08:52
The media’s mania over Trump’s Helsinki performance and the so-called Russia-gate scandal reached new depths on Monday, says Joe Lauria Read More
2018-07-18 08:44
After a 12-month hiatus from publishing, we are excited to announce the return of The Rant Foundry to our readers and the world at large. We return armed with new skills – lead journal… Read More
2017-06-20 04:37
No better example of the struggle the Allied fleets faced in the Mediterranean during the Battle of Crete could be taken than that of HMAS Perth Read More
2017-04-09 15:42
Reviewing the story of the Syrian conflict that has now been presented to Western populations through mainstream newsmedia as grounds for war Read More
2017-02-14 15:25
Strong criticism from British Air Force heirarchy and from amongst their own units was at first levelled against the RAF Pathfinder Force operations, but the efforts of the PFF crews increas… Read More
2017-01-18 11:37
Filed in: Geopolitics Author: Brendan R Hay
In November 2016, a group of Australian federal politicians gathered quietly to take a very quick look at an issue with very long consequences… Read More
2016-10-20 13:19
Filed in: Geopolitics Author: Brendan R Hay
The West is suffering a crisis of credibility over the Syrian War.
While the governments of the Coalition of the Willing – now investe… Read More
2016-10-03 07:25
Lancaster Crew by Stella Bowen
Filed in: War History – Author: JF Dowsett
At the Binbrook RAF flying base in Lincolnshire, Britain during April 1944, the crew of a La… Read More
2016-08-24 13:51
Filed in: War History – Author: JF Dowsett
Of all the stories of the Royal Australian Navy during the Second World War, few have explored what went on beneath the sea; not… Read More
2016-06-17 16:27
Filed in: War History – Author: JF Dowsett
HMAS Whyalla in camouflage in New Guinea
On January 2nd 1943, the Australian Navy corvette HMAS Whyalla was anchored deep in the… Read More
2016-06-09 07:21
Filed in: War History – Author: JF Dowsett
‘HMAS Nepal in Colombo’ by Roy Hodgkinson
This thrilling first-hand account of a high-seas rescue takes place aboard… Read More
2016-05-31 06:12
Filed in: War History – Author: JF Dowsett
The British Grand Fleet sails. The Battle of Jutland, May 31st 1916
May 31st, 2016 marks 100 years since the Battle of Jutland… Read More
2016-05-23 08:10
Filed in: War History – Author: JF Dowsett
On the 4th of April 1581 Queen Elizabeth went down to Deptford where the English galleon Golden Hind had been taken and, after a… Read More
2016-05-14 03:27
Tough training made Australian soldiers tough fighters.
A revolution took place in military training in Australia in the early days of the Second World War. When the Australian Military Forc… Read More
2016-05-04 09:09
During the New Guinea campaigns of World War II, a phrase relating to the experience of the soldiers and other allied servicemen – Jungle Genius.
In warfare, the word ‘jungle&rsq&hell…Read More
2016-04-19 15:37
Filed in: News & Current Affairs – Author: JF Dowsett
It now seems that major breaches of what is supposed to be secure, privately held information are rarely out of th… Read More
2016-04-19 08:14
Currently, there’s enough political ‘spin’ being churned and re-churned through the mainstream media to make one’s head – well, spin.
It’s been fascinatin… Read More
2016-04-04 15:10
Anzac Day, 25th April 2016 – Lest We Forget
“At a mile distant their thousand hooves were stuttering thunder, coming at a rate that frightened a man – they were an awe insp… Read More
2016-04-01 09:25
Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop (L) talks with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi after their joint news conference at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Beijing, China, February 17… Read More
2016-03-01 13:33
Landing at Scarlet Beach by Roy Cecil Hodgkinson
This sketch by Roy Cecil Hodgkinson depicts the situation at the south end of Scarlet Beach in New Guinea on 22nd September 1943 – half… Read More
2016-02-14 09:57
In the steamy, malarial jungles of Dutch New Guinea, among the shattered palm groves and bomb-scarred coral islands, across the treacherous disease-gripped kunai grass plains of the Markham… Read More
2016-02-14 09:57
In the steamy, malarial jungles of Dutch New Guinea, among the shattered palm groves and bomb-scarred coral islands, across the treacherous disease-gripped kunai grass plains of the Markham… Read More
2016-02-06 14:49
Four Royal Australian Air Force F/A-18F Super Hornet aircraft in formation in the Middle East [image via defence.gov.au]The decision that Australian forces were going to join the US-led bomb… Read More
2016-02-05 08:09
When Squadron-Leader and Commanding Officer Geoffrey William Coventry of the 11th Squadron RAAF returned to base along with his crew after a raid on Manokwari Harbour in western New Guinea i… Read More
2016-02-02 11:31
Ships That Fly by Colin Colahan, a brilliant painting showing what looks to be a pair of Mk.II or Mk.III Short Sunderlands, possibly of the 461st Squadron RAAF.
The Short S.25 Sunderland was… Read More
2016-02-02 07:52
I recently came across the following poem in Jungle Warfare – With The Australian Army In The South Pacific (1944) and as I read, its verses struck me as not only timeless, but also so… Read More
2016-01-29 15:53
Aircrew and servicing personnel working on a Lockheed Lodestar aircraft of No. 37 Squadron RAAF seen here at Merauke, Dutch New Guinea, the first stop on the long flight. [AWM OG3059]During… Read More
2016-01-23 03:42
A damning report on the conflict of interests in the Syrian Crisis debate identified numerous corporate and defense industry ties of experts and think tanks who commented on potential milit… Read More
2016-01-23 03:08
A UK inquiry has concluded that the murder of Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko was “probably” approved by President Vladimir Putin. Retired High Court Judge Sir Robert Owen wrote… Read More
2015-12-13 08:53
Above the Convoy by Frank Norton (1944)
Interestingly, part of the handwritten text in the corner reads, “Drawing made while flying…”
From The Library Read More
2015-12-13 08:35
Lady of the WAAAF by Harold Freedman
The Women’s Auxiliary Australian Air Force (WAAAF) was formed in March 1941 after considerable lobbying by women keen to serve and by the Chief of… Read More
2015-12-13 08:34
Airscrews by Eric Thake.
Per Ardua Ad Astra
They were born to fly –
Fly upward to the stars;
To loop and turn and dive and climb
Around the throne of Mars.
This was their heritage &nda&hell…Read More
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