Last month, Air Chief Marshal Sir Richard Knighton, Chief of the Defence Staff, delivered a lecture at the Royal United Services Institute in which he warned that Russia was developing new and destabilising weapons systems. Arguing that the current Russian leadership’s aim was to “ultimately destroy NATO”, he proposed that UK defence must be the “central organising principle of government”. He urged that: “Sons and daughters. Colleagues. Veterans … will all have a part to play. To build. To serve. And if necessary, to fight. And more families will know what sacrifice for our nation means”.
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What Siegfried Sassoon still teaches us about war and conscience
As Britain’s military leadership calls for national mobilisation in the face of new threats, the experience of the First World War offers a sobering reminder of how easily moral certainty can harden into moral blindness
Anthony McCarthy
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