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Not for a second would one presume to tell our generals how to fight. I will maintain – after experience of large wars – that small battalions with three low strength companies are wholly inadequate to cope with the strains and stresses of daily combat against a dangerous and experienced military power. We must think again: about using reserves properly, constantly renewing technology, and preparing for the unexpected.
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Why does our country need an Army that can destroy any foe in any terrain and climate? Because such a versatile army probably won’t have to fight a war, or at least, not for very long. One finds this principle among the records of the Grand Historian of the Han dynasty of ancient China. The Romans explained it with five words – Si vis pacem, para bellum – if you wish peace, prepare for war. Today we use a single rather dry word – deterrence.
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One hundred seconds. That s how long it takes. First, you hear the voice of Earl Woods, and a prophecy for his son. That he would transcend the game of golf. A prophecy that would come true in more ways than one. And then, 100 seconds into HBO s
Tiger, you see Tiger Woods, the greatest golfer of all time, moving at a glacial pace, shuffling in his bare feet to the back of the room where his mugshot will be taken.
You ve seen the mugshot. You know the story, and the one before it. In 2009, Tiger Woods did some troubling shit and we all found out about it. He cheated on his wife. A lot. He caused a lot of people pain. His wife, Elin Nordegren, undoubtedly. The more than a dozen women he carried on intimate relationships with simultaneously, for sure. The people that paid him a lot of money not to fuck up his reputation. The friends and partners he cut out of his life after it was all over. It was all very shameful. It was all disappointing.
The former head of the British Army left part of his £490,000 estate to the Gurkha Welfare Trust after his death aged 95.
Field Marshal Lord Edwin Bramall, who was a part of nearly every major UK military campaign from the Second World War until his retirement in 1985, passed away at his home in Crondall, Hampshire in November 2019.
He had landed in Normandy at the age of 21 in charge of a platoon and was wounded twice before fighting his way through Holland towards Berlin, winning the Military Cross, becoming a Knight of the Garter and, eventually, Chief of Defence Staff.
Lord Bramall, who became a life peer as Baron Bramall of Bushfield in 1987, left the majority of his £486,259 estate to his children Nicolas and Sara and his grandchildren.
David Coleridge, chairman of Lloyd’s insurance market during turbulent years – obituary
After big losses he was regarded by disgruntled Names as representing the Lloyd’s Establishment, but he started the process of reform
30 December 2020 • 9:46pm
Coleridge (outside the Lloyd s building in 1992): known for his kindness and lack of vanity
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David Coleridge, who has died aged 88, was chairman of Lloyd’s of London during what he called “one of the darker chapters” in the insurance market’s history.
An urbane Old Etonian who had spent all his working life in Lloyd’s, Coleridge was variously described as appearing to survive on a diet of “port and school puddings” and concealing steely determination “behind a tired teddy-bear look”.
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