It was perhaps best summed up by Reuters which paraphrases Defence Secretary Robert Gates, saying: "The US military should focus more on winning in Iraq and preparing to fight other insurgencies and less on possible big wars with other countries". The trouble is, as Gates rightly observes, that this is not always the main priority of the military. "I have noticed," he says ...
Posted on Defence of the Realm
Wednesday 14 May 2008
The mother of all speeches
