Kenneth Payne
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ESB facing €3.5m compensation claim from landowners
- Energy & Resources
- March 11, 2019, 17:52
The ESB is facing compensation claims for some €3.5m from property owners whose land is needed for the running of power cables for the national electr(...)
![US marines with Viet Cong prisoners in 1965: “it seems a little crazy now, but [the Pentagon] was convinced that force could be used as a form of communication with the enemy – if you do this, we shall punish you; back down now, or we escalate. It was war as a violent conversation: a rational, deliberate and calculated conversation. And, of course, it didn’t work.” Photograph: Getty Images](/polopoly_fs/1.2196582.1430473619!/image/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/landscape_140/image.jpg "US marines with Viet Cong prisoners in 1965: “it seems a little crazy now, but [the Pentagon] was convinced that force could be used as a form of communication with the enemy – if you do this, we shall punish you; back down now, or we escalate. It was war as a violent conversation: a rational, deliberate and calculated conversation. And, of course, it didn’t work.” Photograph: Getty Images")
Strategy is psychology: the mad rationale behind the Vietnam War
- Books
- May 1, 2015, 12:47
This week, it’s 40 years since their war in Vietnam ended in a comprehensive and shattering defeat for South Vietnam and its US patron. A decade earli(...)
