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Abdullah Khalid @prudenfuturi.bsky.social · 25d

that leaders failed to restrain. Prudence demands not only inquiry into motive, but a determination to prevent repetition — for the smallest incident may light the fuse of a greater conflagration.

Abdullah Khalid @prudenfuturi.bsky.social · 25d

In war, the line between accident and intention is perilously thin. What matters less is whether Poland was the specific aim, and more that its frontier has now been pierced. History shows that wars have widened not by design alone, but by the chain of unintended provocations...

Abdullah Khalid @prudenfuturi.bsky.social · 26d

When a civilization moves towards decline, society at times fails to embrace the path of true reformation; instead, it chooses courses that are abortive or misguided.

Abdullah Khalid @prudenfuturi.bsky.social · 26d

Requiescat in pace, Brian James Bond.
You made the past speak. You made it matter. And you made it human.
A few years ago, I read a reference to him in the memoir of a soldier from the 1/8 Punjab Regiment.
That was the moment I realized that Bond was not only a figure in the

Abdullah Khalid @prudenfuturi.bsky.social · 26d

His knowledge was not confined to libraries — it echoed in the hearts and minds of those who wore khaki uniforms.
But his true education took place on the intellectual frontlines, where books and the battlefield engaged in profound dialogue.

Abdullah Khalid @prudenfuturi.bsky.social · 26d

History is the story of civilizations, not nations.
Breakdown occurs not by external invasion but through internal decay—especially the failure of moral and spiritual values.

Abdullah Khalid @prudenfuturi.bsky.social · 26d

Born on 17 April 1936 in the small town of Marlow, in Buckinghamshire, Bond spent his childhood in a home where his father worked as a gardener —a home owned by the great military historian, Captain Basil Liddell Hart.
Hart recognized in the young Bond an exceptional interest in

Abdullah Khalid @prudenfuturi.bsky.social · 26d

His scholarly contributions were not merely a list of books, but rather an intellectual inquiry into history and the military instincts of humanity.
His work Liddell Hart: A Study of His Military Thought is a deeply perceptive analysis that reveals not only military theories but

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Abdullah Khalid @prudenfuturi.bsky.social · 26d

Massé, C. H., Lt-Col. The Predecessors of the Royal Army Service Corps, 1757–1888. Aldershot: Gale & Polden, 1948.

Abdullah Khalid @prudenfuturi.bsky.social · 26d

WAIT FOR THE WAGGON
The Story of the Royal Corps of Transport and its Predecessors
1794–1993

Abdullah Khalid @prudenfuturi.bsky.social · 26d

A. Forbes, The History of the Army Ordnance Services, vol. II (London: The Medici Society Ltd., 1929)

Abdullah Khalid @prudenfuturi.bsky.social · 26d

History is a vision, not merely a record.
It is not the past, but a pattern we construct about the past.

Lawford, Lt. Col. J. P., and Catto, Maj. W. E. Solah Punjab: The History of the 16th Punjab Regiment. Aldershot: Gale & Polden, 1967.

Abdullah Khalid @prudenfuturi.bsky.social · 26d

62nd Punjabis at Ismailia, Egypt, 1914 — A moment in empire and war.Pictured on the eve of the Great War’s desert campaigns, the men of the 62nd Punjabis stand in formation at Ismailia. On the far right is Captain Claude Auchinleck, then a young officer of promise — later to beco

Abdullah Khalid @prudenfuturi.bsky.social · 26d

D. J. Sutton. The Story of the Royal Army Service Corps and the Royal Corps of Transport, 1945–1982. London: Leo Cooper in association with Secker & Warburg, 1983.

Abdullah Khalid @prudenfuturi.bsky.social · 26d

D. J. Sutton. The Story of the Royal Army Service Corps and the Royal Corps of Transport, 1945–1982. London: Leo Cooper in association with Secker & Warburg, 1983.

Abdullah Khalid @prudenfuturi.bsky.social · 26d

D. J. Sutton. The Story of the Royal Army Service Corps and the Royal Corps of Transport, 1945–1982. London: Leo Cooper in association with Secker & Warburg, 1983.
This volume traces the evolution, service, and global reach of the Royal Army Service Corps and the Royal Corps of T

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Abdullah Khalid @prudenfuturi.bsky.social · 26d

Go, lovely Rose!
Tell her that wastes her time and mine,
The common fate of all things rare
May read in thee;
How small a part of time they share
That are so wondrous sweet and fair

Abdullah Khalid @prudenfuturi.bsky.social · 26d

The common fate of all things rare
May read in thee;
How small a part of time they share
That are so wondrous sweet and fair!

Abdullah Khalid @prudenfuturi.bsky.social · 26d

Harding, David. Small Arms of the East India Company, 1600–1856. 4 vols. London: Foresight Books, 1997.

Abdullah Khalid @prudenfuturi.bsky.social · 26d

But at my back I always hear
Time's wingèd chariot hurrying near:
And yonder all before us lye
Deserts of vast Eternity.

Abdullah Khalid @prudenfuturi.bsky.social · 26d

The War in the Far East- the Burma Campaign 1941-1945
The Battle of Imphal-Kohima March - July 1944: Men of the West Yorkshire Regiment and 10th Gurkha Rifles advance along the Imphal-Kohima road behind Lee-Grant tanks

Abdullah Khalid @prudenfuturi.bsky.social · 26d

British infantry advance near Ginchy.

Abdullah Khalid @prudenfuturi.bsky.social · 26d

The Medical Officer (of the Royal Army Medical Corps attached to the 12th (Service) Battalion, East Yorkshire Regiment (92nd Brigade, 31st Division)) bandaging the face wound of a man of his battalion in the line in the Arleux sector near Roclincourt[Arras], 9 January 1918.