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Cadet forces scheme: £10.85m to encourage young people to join
Scheme coinciding with Armed Forces Day aims to create 100 new cadet units in English state schools
Judge rejects bid to stop Olympic rooftop missiles
The Independent
The clear implication of today's judgment was that "the MoD now has power to militarise the private homes of any person" even when there was no war on, or state of emergency declared.
Missiles ‘could be fired to protect Olympics from terrorist attack’
the Telegraph
Missiles could be fired in London to protect the Olympic Games from terrorist attack, Philip Hammond, the Defence Secretary, announced yesterday.
Are video games just propaganda and training tools for the military?
The Guardian
It's a shadowy and lucrative relationship. But just how close are video-game developers with various military outfits? And how does it affect the games we play?
Oldham school planned with all ex-forces staff
BBC
The first UK school whose teachers have all served in the armed forces is actively recruiting prospective pupils with a view to opening in 2013.
Brown backs army cadet corps plan for schools
The Guardian
Controversial plans for pupils in comprehensive schools to sign up for military drills and weapons training are being backed by Gordon Brown in an attempt to improve the relationship between the public and the armed forces.
Gove backs cadet forces in schools
Press Association
Military-style cadet forces could be introduced to all secondary schools in a Government bid to boost standards and discipline.
Not just waving poppies, but drowning thought
Ekklesia
"There may well be a boom in poppy sales, but the act of Remembrance itself has been cheapened by a failure to back up words with action, particularly when it comes to successive governments' care for victims of war, but equally in terms of the appalling the lack of resources put into peacebuilding."
The red poppy: a compromised symbol?
"The growing compulsion to wear a red poppy and to acquiesce in the remodelling of its purpose has diverted our attention from the more enduring and demanding aspects of remembering the destruction, personal, collective and environmental, which is the outcome of military action."