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Join me on the Victory to Defeat Tour, France, 23-26 March 2027 (opens the original)
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I am organising, with General Lord Dannatt and WO2 Paul Barnes, another private tour to France between 23 and 26 March 2027.Do consider joining us. You head out under your own steam and organise your own accommodation (loose coordination is applied), following us around the battlefields of 1918 and 1940 and learning how to connect the British Army’s victories in 1918 with the failures of 1940. The tour is based on our book Victory to Defeat. We’ve changed the itinerary slightly for the 2027 tour
Mers-el-Kebir (opens the original)
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A Remarkable Gamble (opens the original)
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Cuts to British Army training (opens the original)
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I worked with Brigadier Ben Barry twice during my army career - we were commissioned into the same regiment - and have remained friends ever since. Indeed, it was Ben (though he didn’t know it then) who got me interested in military history for the first time when in 1983 or thereabouts he pressed into my hands a copy of General Sir David Fraser's And We Shall Shock Them, still the stand out analysis of British Army performance in the Second World War. I was a passionate late-medievalist and unw
Don’t join the Army... (opens the original)
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For those who know me well, the idea that I might now be encouraging young men and women not to join the Armed Forces might sound that I had lost my marbles. I can assure you that is not the case. I am deadly serious. This government’s determination, building on the surrender of the previous Conservative government to the varying dictats of the ECHR, will drive an impossible moral and legal wedge between the people who the country ask to do its dirty work, and the government that sends them in h
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