How the Battle of the Somme shaped the role of the modern military chaplain

As tensions continue to disrupt global shipping through the Strait of Hormuz, Dr Linda Parker argues that the present crisis cannot be fully understood — or resolved — without examining the centuries-long struggle for control of the Persian Gulf

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S troops land at Massacre Bay on Attu Island during the Battle of Attu in May 1943, when the Aleutians became a hard-fought front in the Second World War. Picture: United States Office of War Information/Public Domain via Library of Congress and Wikimedia Commons

Why these bleak, rain-lashed islands may matter more than we think to Arctic security

The Aleutians are remote, storm-lashed and often overlooked, but as Russia and China push harder into the Arctic and North Pacific, this chain of islands off Alaska may prove critical to U.S and NATO security, writes Dr Linda Parker

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