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“Now, we’re training under the assumption that we’ll go to the conference championships,” he said.
Politicians continue to justify the adventures in Iraq and in Afghanistan, where British troop levels now stand at 9,500, in terms of national security. Britain, it is said, must take the fight to the bad guys to keep its citizens safe. Yet as the list of rickety states and...
Sandhurst's program of officer training, compulsory for all British army officers, is a distillation of centuries of accrued knowledge combined with a rigorous practical regime. It attracts applicants from all over the world including China and the U.S., and has stiffened the sinews of the heads of state of...
Such assertions cut little ice with 60% of his compatriots who, according to a survey for the National Army Museum, believe Britain should never have gone into Iraq. The real value of the inquiry may lie in the detailed testimonies provided by witnesses from politics, civil service and the military...
It's hardly surprising that some soldiers question their presence in Afghanistan. "When we went to Kosovo, we knew what we were there to do - to drive out the bully boys. I didn't know what we were supposed to be doing in Iraq," says one army sergeant who asked...