Britain | Pick your battles
The British Army has a new focus and outdated equipment
Its top general sets his sights on Russia. But his forces desperately need investment
In 1905 britain’s new secretary of state for war, Richard Haldane, asked a deceptively simple question: “What is the army for?” The guerrilla fighting of the Boer war was over; trouble loomed in Europe. Haldane built an expeditionary force that was thrown into France less than a decade later. Now, with the army in the throes of another identity crisis, its top general wants to settle that question anew.
Britain July 16th 2022
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- Conservative candidates reveal “the British dream”
- Boris Johnson still has plans for his last weeks in office
- Britain is ageing slower than other countries, and in a good way
- The British Army has a new focus and outdated equipment
- Shakespeare and the revival of Prescot
- Britain’s prime minister becomes a rotten presidency
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