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The King’s of War blog was run out of KCL’s War Studies Department. It contained such luminaries as Thomas Rid (now of Johns Hopkins), Patrick Porter (now of University of Birmingham), David Betz, Kenneth Payne, Jack McDonald (all still at KCL), amongst others. Our remit was somewhat meandering, and our most viewed post had the word llama in the title. Little did we know that llama was internet catnip.

• Putting the Steele into intelligence reform – 10 January 2014
• Very Courageous, Prime Minister – 21 January 2010
• Ooops – the problems of getting caught red-handed: 11 February 2010
• A big wobbly strop – 23 February 2010
• Europeanized defence – almost literally nothing new to report: 1 March 2010
• Curtailing State Power(?): 4 March 2010
• Down in the Doctrinal Weeds: 23 March 2010
• Being special: 28 March 2010
• Inside or Outside? 1st April 2010
• And they’re off…! 6th April 2010
• The Manifestos: 13 April 2010
• The Vision Thing? 21 April 2010
• Thrashed to a dead-heat: 23 April 2010
• UK Security Committee and the use of intelligence: 14 May 2010
• The silent death of European defence, the quiet awakening of European security: 8 June 2010
• Wikileaks and Bloody Sunday: 21 June 2010
• The Russians Are Coming!: 29 June 2010
• Reds under the bed, spooks coming out of the closet…22 July 2010
• Does my leak look big in this? 26 July 2010
• ‘Are Soldiers Human?’: 27 July 2010
• ‘Big Brother’ was just the warm-up act: 10 August 2010
• ‘Spy’ dies, press goes bonkers: 26 August 2010
• The British Defence Review – from the jaws of victory to a certain defeat: 16 September 2010
• ‘Obsolete or bloody dangerous?’ – The state of Britain’s nuclear deterrent: 24 September 2010
• SDSR: The Colander Review: 30 September 2010
• SDSR – Establishing the National Interest (and a swipe at development aid): 6 October 2010
• SDSR – Mortgaging the Future to a War in Afghanistan? 19 October 2010
• What on earth are wikileaks doing now? – 26 November 2010
• Wikileaks – Cablegate, intelligence and diplomacy – 29 November 2010
• Buying Peace? – 13 January 2011
• The Egyptian People: About to Drink a Cup of Sick? – 7 February 2011
• And the 2011 Mugabe Award for failing to understand the will of the people goes to… – 11 February 2011
• Humanitarian Intervention: A Reprise? – 23 February 2011
• Terror in the classroom? Terror on the roundabout? – 16 March 2011
• Hyper-competition and Muscular Liberalism – 28 March 2011
• The MoD in full calypso collapso mode – 8 April 2011
• Bin Laden: To Kill a Man or Kill an Ideology? – 2 May 2011
• Mladic: the price of EU membership – 26 May 2011
• Of Llamas and Wikipedia… An Arab Spring, a European Summer? – 8 June 2011
• Of Suez and nudity…- 16 June 2011
• Defence Reform: Defence Revolution? – 27 June 2011
• In memoriam: The European Union – 13 July 2011
• The London Riots: A time for ‘big society’? – 9 August 2011
• The UK riots – further thoughts – 10 August 2011
• The thing about intelligence… – 26 September 2011
• Cycling through intelligence – 7 October 2011
• Blighted by a media pox, the Fox.. is he f*cked? – 11 October 2011
• What size, the security state? – 13 October 2011
• Egypt: A Warm Cup of Sick, Redux… – 23 November 2011
• We’re all East Germans now… 4 December 2011
• In Macapaca world, the HTS reigns supreme- 13 January 2012
• Looking back at Libya whilst thinking of Syria – 2 March 2012
• Syria and Bosnia.. a partial echo from history – 12 March 2012
• Competing – 16 April 2012
• Borders, PNR and a whole lot of political guff – 1 May 2012
• The Place of Intelligence in Political Narratives – 5 June 2012
• Like clubbing seals: the case for Britain in Europe – 2 July 2012
• No longer trimming the fat.. more hacking out vital organs – 6 July 2012
• Assange, various governments and the cul-de-sac of misfired moves – 17 August 2012
• 9/11: Eleven years on, is it time for our liberalism to be more, not less, muscular? – 11 September 2012
• All in it together? The utility of universities to military, security and resilient activities – 12 November 2012
• Moral vacuums and chemical weapons – 9 December 2012
• Our enemy’s enemy, is never better… – 12 December 2012
• Syria, Mali, Algerian gas-works and ‘Open Source Everything’ – 29 January 2013
• Defence Acquisition: the wisdom of elders – 6 February 2013
• The red-line of chemical weapons and Syria – 20 March 2013
• The mediation of unmet need – 22 May 2013
• PRISM and the making of our idiocracy. – 10 June 2013
• Syria and the Parliamentary recall – 27 August 2013
• The ghost of Iraq past and Syria present – 30 August 2013
• UK intelligence chiefs go to Parliament – 8 November 2013
• The devil is in the devilly detail – 21 November 2013
• Lone Wolves, Black Swans, and a Surveillance Llama – 20 December 2013