A role,still, for immense armiesGround forces can execute what drones and air strikes cannotStudy a direct challenge to policy makers Shortly after the end of the war in Europe, and Field Marshal Sir Alan Brooke,head of the British army and Churchill’s principal military adviser during the second world war, reminded Stalin of a toast he had made at Yalta: “To those men who are always wanted in war and always forgotten in peace - the soldiers!”
I was reminded of this reading a plea on behalf of armies, and now - in the west,at least - treated as the destitute relation of naval and air forces.
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Source: theguardian.com