{"id":255075,"date":"2022-06-20T07:56:47","date_gmt":"2022-06-20T07:56:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=255075"},"modified":"2022-06-22T07:17:54","modified_gmt":"2022-06-22T07:17:54","slug":"british-armys-new-top-general-tells-troops-to-prepare-to-fight-in-europe-again-defeat-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=255075","title":{"rendered":"British Army\u2019s New Top General Tells Troops to Prepare to \u2018Fight in Europe Again\u2019, \u2018Defeat Russia\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Samizdat via <\/em> Aletho News \u2013 June 19, 2022<\/strong><\/h1>\n

Russia and the UK haven\u2019t engaged one another directly in battle since the Crimean War of 1853-1856. It was that conflict which became the subject of Lord Alfred Tennyson\u2019s famous poem \u2018The Charge of the Light Brigade\u2019, the disastrous cavalry charge against Russian troops during the 1854 Battle of Balaklava which nearly wiped out British forces.<\/p>\n

Britain must prepare to return to continental Europe to fight and win a conflict against Russia, General Sir Patrick Sanders (above), the new Chief of the General Staff of the British Army, has said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is now a burning imperative to forge an Army capable of fighting alongside our allies and defeating Russia in battle. We are the generation that must prepare the Army to fight in Europe once again,\u201d Sanders wrote in a letter to the troops after taking over from his predecessor, Gen. Sir Mark Carleton-Smith earlier this week.<\/p>\n

Sanders emphasized that he was the first British chief of general staff \u201csince 1941 to take command of the Army in the shadow of a land war in Europe involving a continental power,\u201d carefully wording his comment to avoid mentioning NATO involvement in the 1990s Yugoslav Wars, including the 78-day-long bombing of Yugoslavia in 1999.<\/p>\n

The general suggested that the crisis in Ukraine highlighted the Army\u2019s \u201ccore purpose\u201d of protecting Britain \u201cby being ready to fight and win wars on land.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sir Patrick\u2019s sentiments have been echoed by Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who wrote in an article for The Sunday Times<\/em> that the UK and its allies must \u201csteel\u201d themselves for a \u201clong\u201d slog in Ukraine, and that the West needs \u201cto enlist time on Ukraine\u2019s side.\u201d<\/p>\n

Separately, in an interview with Bild<\/em>, NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg similarly urged allies to \u201cbe prepared\u201d for the Ukraine crisis \u201cto last for years,\u201d and stressed that the bloc \u201cmust not weaken in our support of Ukraine, even if the costs are high \u2013 not only in terms of military support but also because of rising energy and food prices\u201d at home.<\/p>\n

Sanders\u2019 enlistment as Chief of the General Staff comes at a difficult time for Britain\u2019s military, with the government announcing plans last year to whittle the regular Army down from 82,000 troops to 72,500 personnel by 2025 \u2013 its smallest size since 1714. The prime minister\u2019s office assured that large land forces aren\u2019t necessary in conditions of modern warfare, where smaller units supported by technology and electronic warfare tools are expected to do the job. It remains to be tested whether such logic is applicable to hypothetical conflicts with a large power like Russia, or limited to the kinds of operations the UK has engaged in in recent years, including the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, and the aerial bombardment of Libya in 2011.<\/p>\n

Britain and Russia haven\u2019t fought directly in a war since the 1850s, and were allies in both the First and Second World Wars, as well as the conflict against Napoleon in the early 19th century.<\/p>\n

Russian officials have accused the West of sending billions of dollars\u2019 worth of military hardware to Ukraine to prolong the crisis as long as possible, and \u201cfight Russia to the last Ukrainian\u201d through the proxy conflict. The Russian military has warned that it will destroy Western arms deliveries and foreign mercenaries.<\/p>\n

Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

General Sir Patrick Sanders took over command on Monday and wrote to his subordinates about the new challenges they face. Foremost among these was the possibility of fighting against Russian forces in Europe<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":255077,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[91,116],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-255075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-russia","category-ukraine"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=255075"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255075\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":255079,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255075\/revisions\/255079"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/255077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=255075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=255075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=255075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}