Archive - Mark Laity’s Newsletter

Change, change, change

To what though – that is the question

May 9 • Mark Laity

April 2026

Trump's disastrous war

So as dawn broke on the morning of April 8, where were we on Iran?

Apr 8 • Mark Laity

March 2026

Why the US military striking that school matters so much

How you deal with your mistakes says a lot about you and your wars

Mar 12 • Mark Laity

Special Relationship? What Special Relationship?

If Starmer’s no Churchill, what’s Trump?

Mar 5 • Mark Laity

How will this end?

Trump’s war on Iran: What’s the strategy?

Mar 1 • Mark Laity

January 2026

Greenland is not about strategy but psychology

One of the problems we have in handling Trump is that we default to our frame of reference, the way we see the world, and not his.

Jan 17 • Mark Laity

Saving Greenland from the US and saving the US from itself

Working together over Greenland is the easy way not the hard way.

Jan 11 • Mark Laity

If might is right then we’d better get mightier

Living with the new No-Rules Based International Order

Jan 7 • Mark Laity

December 2025

The new Catch-22

In Trumpworld we’re all sort of deranged

Dec 21, 2025 • Mark Laity

Bread and Circuses

To answer Trump’s hostile wake-up call we actually need to wake-up

Dec 10, 2025 • Mark Laity

November 2025

28 points of betrayal, confusion, incompetence and plain unworkability

The 28 points revealed more than just Trump’s bromance with Putin

Nov 25, 2025 • Mark Laity

A bad week for the BBC…

…but not just because of its mistakes

Nov 10, 2025 • Mark Laity