Hundreds of soldiers from 3rd battalion The Parachute Regiment spent last week learning how to contain and arrest "rioters" in a series of exercises mirroring last summers violence. Defence sources have confirmed that if violence were to return to British cities, especially during the Olympic Games, the Paras would be "ideally placed" to provide "short-term" support to police forces around the UK....

Today is the 40th anniversary of the Bloody Sunday massacre in 1972, when British soldiers killed 14 demonstrators in Derry. Worth reading this interview with Eamonn McCann from Socialist Review

Cuts in the Army are creating gaps and leaving soldiers unsettled and frustrated, the head of the service has warned.

Cuts in the Army are creating gaps and leaving soldiers unsettled and frustrated, the head of the service has warned.

Relatives of 10 people shot dead by soldiers in west Belfast in 1971 are calling for a meeting with the Prime Minister, David Cameron.

The government spent more than £400,000 on sending celebrities to visit soldiers in Afghanistan last year, the Ministry of Defence says.

Brian Shivers found guilty of murdering Sappers Patrick Azimkar and Mark Quinsey in Real IRA attack

So now it's snapshots of US Marines pissing on the Afghan dead. Better, I suppose, than the US soldiers pictured beside the innocent Afghan teenager they fragged back in March of last year. Or the female guard posing with the dead Iraqi prisoner at Abu Ghraib. Not to mention Haditha or the murder videos taken by US troops in the field – the grenading of an old shepherd by an Iraqi highw...

To quote Seinfeld, "this can't be good for anyone!" This morning I had commented on U.S. intentions to "negotiate" peace with the Taliban, and then I found this video of Marines apparently urinating on dead Taliban soldiers through Theo Spark. Become a fan of The Political Commentator on Facebook here! Follow The Political Commentator on Twitter here! Friend The Political Commentator and Mich...

Just one in 20 Territorial Army soldiers is adequately trained to serve on the front line, senior Army commanders and academics have warned.