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Continual war is the backdrop to British politics
ANDREW MURRAY is surprised by the latest comments by General Sir Patrick Sanders who seems not to have noticed Britain’s military meddling around the world over the last 25 years
Sanders Schapps

SO HOW has this “post-war” Britain been working out for you?

There has been a lot of comment on General Sir Patrick Sanders’s recent speech urging preparations for a “citizen’s army” ready to confront Russia whenever the latter gets through Vladimir Putin’s Ukraine adventure.

But the most remarkable contention by the head of the British army was the one asserting that we have been dwelling in a “post-war world”  but now need to man up for a “pre-war” one.

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