The Spectator

Books and Arts – 10 January 2019

issue 12 January 2019

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Eliot Wilson

Who is to blame for the state of Britain’s military?

Old soldiers never die, in the words of the barrack ballad, but increasingly they do not fade away either. With an unusually intense public focus on defence issues thanks to the insistence of Donald Trump that Europe up its military spending pronto, platoons of former senior officers are now popping out of the woodwork to

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