I do not know which edition of "Shooting History" by Jon Snow contained these semi-prophetic, but not politically heeded words, though I think these were in the 2004 edition. 

Australia's Chief of Army, Lieutenant General Angus Campbell, has issued a directive that prohibits the wearing of 'death' symbols. 

There is a controversy: to give Sir John Monash a posthumous Field-Marshal promotion. Such promotion is not unique though. I know of some people who got military promotion, after they died, for their work during the war. The problem here is that Monash was a "Melbourne man". Sorry I am a bit sarcastic here, but reading the SMH super-glorious account of Monash and then stating that:

Brussels: Emmanuel Macron, who beat back the far-right National Front to win the French presidency, said on Tuesday that there is "an increasing fascination with illiberalism" in Europe and that divisions over values within the European Union were like "a European civil war."

By firing missiles on Syria with its French and British allies, the strange President Donald Trump has managed to force the Western powers to accept the end of their unilateral domination of the world. The insignificant result of this demonstration of force drags NATO back to reality. Without having made use of its weapons, Russia now succeeds the Soviet Union in the balance of world power.

In January 2018, During the Prime Minister’s Japan visit, the following was reported:

Yet again, the spectre of “bugs” in the system haunts us. 

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French President Emmanuel Macron said that the US-led strike on Syria was legitimate, but "history will judge" whether the operation was justified. He added that neither France nor its allies are at war with the country.

James Mattis, the US defense secretary, has said Washington is still looking for evidence on who carried out Saturday’s chemical weapons attack in Damascus and said his main concern about a military response was how to stop it “escalating out of control”.