The Most Corrupt Idea of Modern Times
Tom Stevenson: Inspecting the Troops, 1 July 2021
The Changing of the Guard: The British Army since 9/11
by Simon Akam.
Scribe, 704 pp., £25, March,978 1 913348 48 9 Show More
by Simon Akam.
Scribe, 704 pp., £25, March,
“... reputation’. This assessment stood in stark contrast to the confident war planning for Iraq that Donald Rumsfeld ordered in November 2001. Fresh from the swift removal of the Taliban with special forces and airstrikes, American military planners felt that its imperial tasks could now be managed by means of an air war and a modest number of specialist shock ... ”