Publication Announcement: Friendly Fire (short story) out now in US

Friendly Fire is a 6K short story, set in the current war in Afghanistan. [...]

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Friday Military un-Humour: Not Funny At All

I found these “jokes” a year or so ago, quite a while, isn’t it? I felt that today, after a month of horrendous death toll in Afghanistan, only set to get worse (19 British soldiers died in the last month), and 125 extra troops to be sent out imminently, to replace the fallen squaddies (gives [...]

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Military Eye Candy Monday: British Squaddies in Afghanistan

I hardly managed to get online over my weekend in Liverpool, thus apologies that there wasn’t a Saturday post. Two-and-a-half year old twin boys have a tendency to keep their “Gogoy” occupied.
However, I am back home and come bearing gifts: fresh pics from only a very short while ago, of some fairly delectable [...]

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Out and About

No Military Humour Friday today, because I am in …

Hahahahahahah!

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Military Tuesday: Chinook helicopter

Where the Herc is my favourite airplane of the British Forces, the Chinook is my favourite chopper.
“A Chinook CH47 helicopter releases decoy flares whilst flying over the desert in Afghanistan in support of British troops in Helmand province.”

The Boeing CH-47 Chinook is a versatile, twin-engine, tandem rotor heavy-lift helicopter. Its top speed of 170 knots [...]

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Worldwide Saturday – Survivor’s Tale: Afghanistan

Remember? Saturday is my “Joker” day on this blog, where I choose my theme. Today it is journalism in crisis zones, and, of course, Afghanistan, and what is happening over there. You can’t get a closer eye-witness account of an IED attack, than this.
This is a fascinating 24 minute documentary by Journeyman Pictures, and it [...]

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International Eye Candy: Australian Soldiers in Afghanistan

If I had known how extraordinary the Australian equivalent of the Ministry of Defence image site is, I would have thrown myself into it earlier. I raved about how great the site is in my post that showed some Afghan National Army soldiers.
All images are from the Australian’s Department of Defence site about OP SLIPPER, [...]

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British Forces: Hercules Aircraft

The finest aircraft ever, or  perhaps I am just biased.
Anyone who reads my work will have come across the Hercules, or Herc, for short, my favourite aircraft of the British Forces. Well, my favourite plane, the Chinook is probably my favourite aircraft, but that’s a helicopter, we’ll get to the amazing Chinook another time. I [...]

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Publication Announcement: Friendly Fire short story

Due out in October 2009
Friendly Fire is a 6K short story, set in the current war in Afghanistan. British Sergeant Major Phil Mason, and American Gunnery Sergeant Jon Rivera partake in friendly fire, only to encounter enemy fire, which forces them to work together to survive, out there in the Afghan mountains.
In true Marquesate style, [...]

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Para Mortar Platoon Team: Firing

This is not only an absolutely excellent series of images, for obvious reasons, because it is fascinating to follow the sequence, but because we are privy to a rather delectable tight butt, and bent over. Yes, I know, I am making light of a serious job, but hello …? I’ve never met a squaddie who [...]

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Afghan National Army Soldiers

Blimey. I was going through the Australian Ministry of Defence Image database website, and not only is it an amazing site, written and presented in a VERY different style to the British one (far more approachable, interesting, showing the good and the bad, and just plain enjoyable to read through, and let’s face it, Aussie [...]

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Bloody Reality: War and Medicine – Camp Bastion

Today, on this Friday evening, I feel like apologising for writing what I write. The military gay erotic fiction, for titillating with what is very real and very horrendous right now, especially in Afghanistan. I feel the need to state that despite appearances, I am always hyper-aware of the danger to trivialise what should never [...]

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Michael Yon: Online Magazine (war correspondent)

I’d like to point readers to the excellent online war blog by the US author, independent journalist, blogger and war correspondent Michael Yon.
(Photo © Michael Yon, available on Wikimedia)
Yon is ex Special Forces himself and has been maintaining an informative and interesting blog, which is very well worth a visit, particularly for insider images and [...]

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Afghanistan

For all of those who are readers of Special Forces, especially of the Soldiers cycle, below are images of the stunning country that is Afghanistan. A breathtaking land of mountains, skies and dust. I would so very much love to see it, but alas, not in this lifetime, I fear, and I am glad that [...]

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Book Review: Jihad! by Tom Carew

Well, what can I say about this book. First of, I found it badly written, but that was not unexpected. Mr Carew (which might or might not be a real name, but who cares, Marquesate certainly isn’t mine) had a ghostwriter, of course, but I’d still say *ouch*.
However, it was very very interesting, and it [...]

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