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...Emily Greenwood. The assault - against a nest of "Maliban" insurgents - is a simulation in Wales, the wounds faked. But Greenwood's urgency is all too real. Within a year of completing their training this month, some 60% of these officer cadets from Britain's élite Royal Military Academy Sandhurst will deploy to Afghanistan. There, says Greenwood, "the pace of operations is so fast and there's constant enemy contact. We have to make sure they're ready...
...Rebecca Marsden, a 25-year-old cadet, says there will be no problem with that: "We can't wait to go to Afghanistan." But it's not just the Taliban that Sandhurst's alumni will have to worry about. As it prepares for a general election on May 6, Britain is having to come to terms with a grim reality: its armed forces are in a state of crisis. Soldiers are profoundly battle weary. Grim statistics tell one part of the story: 179 British soldiers killed in Iraq between 2003 and 2009; 280 lost to the conflict in Afghanistan since...
...Green Paper and the Strategic Defence Review it foreshadows. The SDR, expected this autumn, will be the first such exercise in 12 turbulent years. Any decisions Britain takes on the future role and capacity of its military - on exactly what the country expects of those bright-eyed Sandhurst cadets - will help determine the way Britain is perceived in the world. And that will determine the way Britons see themselves. The biggest challenge for this once great imperial power lies not on distant battlefields but at home, in reaching a long overdue accommodation between past glories and present realities, between lofty...
...Prince Harry forwent formal university education in favor of the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, from which he graduated...
...fight in Iraq. He embarked on a career in the British army proclaiming his intention to be treated just like any other soldier - and demonstrating a noticeable flair for the vernacular of the common man. "There's no way I'm going to put myself through [the military academy] Sandhurst and then sit on my arse back home while my boys are out fighting for their country," he said in a 2006 interview. He added: "I do enjoy running down a ditch full of mud, firing bullets. It's the way I am. I love...