I am utterly disgusted at how Labour politicians are attempting to vilify and smear the former Chief of the General Staff, General Dannatt. Macavity is silent but you can bet your life that the brooding, malevolent, great clunking fist is behind it all.
It is perfectly clear that the Government holds the military in contempt. You only have to look at its parsimonious procurement and treatment of wounded warriors. And the military feel the contempt too, witness Macavity's visit to Afghanistan the other day where the troops were singularly unimpressed with him. Defence is only seen as a way of securing jobs in marginal seats and the vague assertions as to why we are in Afghanistan are merely weasel words.
But this situation and the Government's attitude is in a grand British tradition that dates back to Wellington's army in the Peninsula War: ask the Army to do the impossible with nothing and when it's all over treat the troops as pariahs.
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