Eric S. Margolis 24 May 2010 In history’s first major airborne assault, just after dawn on 10 May, 1940, 71 German paratroopers from Luftwaffe General Kurt Student’s elite 7th Fliegerkorps landed from ten gliders atop Belgium’s Fort Eben Emael. Huge, heavily armed, Eben Emael was […]
17 May, 2010 LONDON – After days of torturous negotiations last week, David Cameron’s Conservatives finally made a deal with Nick Clegg’s center-left Liberal Democrats, and Great Britain finally had a government. As the late British politician Enoch Powell observed, “all political careers end in failure.’ Former PM Gordon […]
May 10, 2010 LONDON – Confusion resulting from Britain’s hung election continues after a weekend of furious negotiations between the three competing parties. At the time of this writing, no coalition has yet been agreed upon, but a deal is considered imminent. British parties are not used to forming […]
