Sublime

Edward VII ruled the British Empire with a slightly pudgy cigar-stained hand, assuring his subjects that duty was important but so too was fun. “It doesn’t matter what you do,” he said, “so long as you don’t frighten the horses.”

Charles Briscoe and his coauthors (Briscoe 2003) produced an early, official account of U.S. Army Special Operations Forces in Afghanistan: Weapon of Choice.

Pete Blaber’s book, The Mission, the Men, and Me: Lessons from a Former Delta Force Commander, came out the same year as Boykin’s memoir (Blaber 2008).

While still nursing their wounds they were given lessons in field-craft by David Stirling (who went on to found the SAS) and Lord Lovat (who was to become captain of the Lovat Scouts).

It’s not even an American—it’s Nigel Farage, former head of the UK Independence Party (UKIP). Before Farage came along, British anti-EU sentiment was strongly tinged with racism and even white supremacism.

For more moderate government supporters, who had voted for Bolsonaro mainly because he represented the best hope of finally defeating the threat from the political left, two ministers in particular provided reassurance. Moro, as we have already noted, remained the most popular minister in Bolsonaro’s cabinet, even though his first year in the justi