Last week China’s National People’s Congress approved to abolish presidential term limits, making it possible for President Xi Jinping to stay in power indefinitely. Western political commentators, almost all unanimously critical of this move, cited this act as a nothing more than a backward leap in democracy and a u-turn on the increasingly liberal society… Read More »Is Xi Jinping now the Emperor of China？
The following edited extract is taken from ‘On Her Majesty’s Nuclear Service‘ by Eric Thompson, and will be published in February. The submarine I was serving in, Oracle, had some severe biological problems. Her heads (toilets) were blocked and seventy desperate men were dealing with corporate constipation. In modern society, we have become disconnected… Read More »The Submariner’s Worst Enemy? Sewage
The below review is written by Tom Bonnington and does not represent the views of Casemate Publishers. Darkest Hour stars Gary Oldman as Winston Churchill and chronicles what he did during the first few weeks of his premiership while the Germans were inflicting heavy defeats in France. The weeks which followed May 10th 1940… Read More »Darkest Hour Review
If you have a large family to cook for at Christmas, take solace that you don’t have to literally feed an army. For U.S. Army cooks in World War One the task of cooking for 60 men each was made simpler with a recipe book provided to them by the War Department. The Manual for… Read More »How to Cook a Christmas Dinner U.S. Army Style
Operation Frantic was a long-range bombing campaign that took place in the latter stages of the Second World War. In order for the plan to work, the planes needed to land in Soviet airfields after their run. It required complete trust between the Western Allies and the Soviets… The aim of Operation Frantic was… Read More »The Second World War Operation which Triggered the Cold War
The following article is written by Commodore Eric Thompson. He received a scholarship to Dartmouth, volunteered for submarines and thirty-seven years later retired as Commodore of Britain’s principal nuclear submarine base at Faslane. His memoir On Her Majesty’s Nuclear Service will be released in February. The disappearance of the Argentine Navy submarine San Juan… Read More »The Most Likely Reason for the ‘San Juan’ Submarine Disaster
Benjamin Lai is an expert on the modern Chinese military and author of The Dragon’s Teeth. In this blog, he explains how China are using the arms trade to exert influence in world affairs and challenge the dominance of the United States. For years, the word ‘Made in China’ has been synonymous with ‘cheap… Read More »How China is Challenging the West in the Arms Trade
Scale Model World is one of the world’s best scale modelling festivals and takes place every year at the Telford International Centre. Casemate have been attending for several years now and always find it to be a great experience to be able to meet so many keen modellers and book buyers. We were able to… Read More »IPMS Scale Model World Trip Report
The American Civil War remains the bloodiest conflict in America’s history. Fought from 1861-65, the war is still widely studied today, and many of the battles, leaders and stories have passed into American folklore. However, here are eleven facts which you may not have heard before. All of them are taken from The Blue &… Read More »Eleven Facts You (Probably) Don’t Know About the American Civil War
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