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I'm glad you raised this. I'm on the other side. I want to remove all foreign traits from our drill, starting with the stiff-kneed goose-step. It's tremendously harmful to the knee. I want to remove the Russian practice of the inspected squad looking at the inspecting dignitary. Either all the...

60 BPM! Of course, there are so many marches, including British and American. Here is one of my favourite cavalry marches - OK, two, I couldn't help slipping in the famous, stirring Finn march from the Hakkapellitaa light cavalry (contrary to popular legend, they were a scruffy lot on...

Thanks. This was in my collection, but not in my collection. You know, of course, that the original Armee Marsch collection had three sections, the slow march section (not what the British Army or the Indian Army considers the slow march, but the original parade march of European armies...

Can't afford the space for these big fellows. I am very fond of Dobermans, and had two good friends, who got along with me, but terrorised the neighbourhood; but at this age, I can't give them the exercise they need. Not even Alsatians, then, or any of the active breeds. I need a lazy...

I hope to be far from tiger country, but if I was going anywhere like that, would look for a Malaklisi, and pray like hell to be able to feed it. At the moment, I am financially more in line with feeding a chihuahua.

I think it is a well-argued and reasonable opinion, and need not be dismissed out of hand. In turn, contrary opinions exist, and those need not be slighted either. A discussion is possible.

I was looking for marches that have that quirk. ;)

I am putting in one or two old German marches, that immediately strike the ear with their peculiarity. I wonder if any other member notices this oddity.

Perhaps enough of a yard for my dogs. Can't keep dogs in an apartment, and I so miss mine (all dead now; when I had them, they were a pleasure).

True enough, but my own, very personal overwhelming urge is to buy a plot of land and build this for myseld.

Heh! It is confusing. Welcome to the club of the equally confused. In India, we have 1.2 million in the Army, 0.068 million (68,000) in the Navy, 0.14 million (140,000) in the Air Force. We also have 0.95 million (950,000) para-military forces, or central armed police forces, the equivalent...

What worries me in this developing situation of greater and greater menace to peace is the inability of our central Indian government to find the vocabulary that they had rejected with such great contempt in their political posturing - the vocabulary to enable a non-aligned structure, and to...

Notice how I am fighting hard to suppress your voice?

So my cousin has crept into Firat Sunel's tag list. He's like a cockroach. Gets in everywhere.

I am reminded of my pet hate politician.

This is clear. However, there is a calculus of blind expectations from a nanny state, propped up against a suspicion of that nanny state. I suspect every generation faces this problem.

So @Michael Corleone, the Bangladeshi youngster who studied MBBS in the Ukraine, and seemed to have Ideally, one should be British, and remain a complete moral void, in terms of Sir Humphrey Appleby's approving prescription for qualification for decision-making positions. But the British...

This is the kind of utterly obnoxious triumphalism, with no triumphs to show for it, that makes us ridiculous all over the world. It is possible, with enough thickening of the skin, to be rational with rational people, and to be a troll to the trolls, but it is a very heavy burden. A burden...

That tells me what I wanted to know.

The problem is her dog. Poor dear won't leave her pooch behind.