Andrew Mueller
Contributing Editor at Monocle
Podcast Host at Monocle 24: The Foreign Desk Podcast
Contributor at Freelance
Contributing Editor, Monocle. Host of The Foreign Desk on @monocle_radio. New book about Australian football, "Carn", available now. Plays in @theblazingzoos.
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1 week ago |
monocle.com | Andrew Mueller
Israel's initial attack on Iran on Friday was far from the first targeted blow against senior military leadership. It wasn't even close to being the first such operation on what is now Iranian territory. In 653 BCE, the Assyrian Empire dealt with the vexatious kingdom of Elam by beheading the Elamite monarch, King Tuemman, and hanging his head from a tree - a literal decapitation strike.
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2 weeks ago |
monocle.com | Andrew Mueller
In the fight to dominate air warfare, the drone market is evolving at a supersonic pace. We delve into the grey market for unmanned aerial vehicles. Last week's astonishing remote-controlled attack by Ukraine on five Russian airfields - some of them thousands of kilometres from the frontlines - might have changed warfare forever.
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3 weeks ago |
gq.com.au | Andrew Mueller
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3 weeks ago |
monocle.com | Andrew Mueller
We report from the Black Sea port city of Odesa, where life goes on, despite the threat of Russian attacks. In a sane world, it would be difficult to move on Odesa's cobbled streets for young men on stag nights, city-breakers trying to avoid them and influencers photographing themselves in front of beautiful buildings resembling wedding cakes ( writes Andrew Mueller). In our world, however, no budget airlines are touching down at Odesa International - or have done so for more than three years.
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1 month ago |
monocle.com | Andrew Mueller
Qatar's reported offer of a Boeing 747 to US president Donald Trump is not the first such gratuity in the history of US-Middle East relations. The same gift was presented in the opposite direction in February 1945, when US president Franklin D Roosevelt gave Saudi Arabia's founding king, Ibn Saud, a Dakota DC-3. The Dakota was a less exclusive aircraft than the Qatari 747 coveted by Trump.
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RT @Monocle_Radio: The Foreign Desk: Reporting from the Ukrainian port city of Odesa, @andrew_mueller talks to leaders – domestic and inter…
Weekday replug for latest Foreign Desk on @Monocle_Radio. Special episode recorded at the @odesaforum in Odesa, with Ukrainian MPs @GoncharenkoUa and @kiraincongress, plus @georgian_legion commander @Mamulashvili_M. https://t.co/ueyIZ5V8EZ
RT @Monocle_Radio: The Foreign Desk: @andrew_mueller reports from @odesaforum and Ukraine’s determination to fight on. With @GoncharenkoUa,…
