"He got it wrong about the Islamic revolution..." Topic
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 Editor in Chief Bill   | 21 Jun 2019 5:44 p.m. PST |
It's hard to be a prophet.  Writing in 1997 in Miniature Wargames magazine, Jim Webster wrote: The core states of the area [the Middle East] for whom the area is everything are Saudi, Iraq and Syria. To be brutally honest all of the could do with a serious overhaul, a genuinely popular Islamic revival could only improve conditions and help lift these countries from the pit they have found themselves in… |
| jekinder6 | 21 Jun 2019 6:13 p.m. PST |
He wasn't alone at the time. I'm still waiting for one of the Saudi Princes to decide he can do a better job than grandad and storm the palace. |
| David Manley | 22 Jun 2019 3:31 a.m. PST |
Spotted exactly the same discussion on one of the GB wargaming groups a few days back. Poor old Jim seems to be "duty target" at the moment, and there was your "Turkish Wars" thread a little while back too. Leave the poor bloke alone :) |
| Editor in Chief Bill | 22 Jun 2019 6:58 p.m. PST |
Leave the poor bloke alone :) It's interesting to see what he got right, and what he got wrong. |
| shaun from s and s models | 23 Jun 2019 2:36 a.m. PST |
i met jim several times, he was our very first customer back in 1986! he bought an m8 armoured car for a bush wars game.
nice chap |
| ROUWetPatchBehindTheSofa | 23 Jun 2019 7:59 a.m. PST |
Don't ever recall reading anything that's called the results of the House of Saud's channelling of domestic political discourse into religion. Given what its culminated in I'm fairly certain they didn't realise what would happen either! The western intelligence agencies may also have been a bit more hands off with Mujahedeen in Afghanistan… (A politics and international relations graduate friend of mine did call the likely condition of a post-invasion Iraq pretty damn accurately) |
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