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Roll over Amazon.com

Let me present the Nato e-bookshop:

And what a lot of things they've got available for downloading or ordering, and in an awesome array of languages too, ranging from Albanian to Uzbek.

"Helping secure Afghanistan's future" is available in Pashto and Dari, and is doubtless popular fire side reading for the Taliban.

Perhaps more alarming is the range of publications available in Russian, including "Improving capabilities to meet new threats" and "The Nato Handbook". I appreciate that there will be English speakers at the FSB, (the Russian Secret Service) and the effort to translate NATO's opuses is unlikely to bring Mother Russia to her knees, but is this really that good an idea?

Nothing in Arabic or Chinese though, which is a comfort of sorts.



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Anonymous Anonymous said... 2:27 pm

hello, Croy

Are you going to comment on Andrew Pelling's exploits? I think we should be told  



Blogger Croydonian said... 11:27 am

CC - I think not. I have heard a few rumours - alternately reflecting badly and well on him - but I would not wish to pre-judge matters or otherwise stick my neck out.  



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