Army chief breaks protocol to warn about possible full scale world war
320,199
Published 2024-06-06
General Sanders made “controversial comments” to The Times’s Larissa Brown about the state of the British army being unprepared to take on a conflict of the scale of the Second World War.
📻 Listen to Times Radio - www.thetimes.co.uk/radio
📍 Subscribe to our channel - / @listentotimesradio
🗞 Subscribe to The Times www.thetimes.co.uk/subscribe/radio-3for3/
📲 Get the free Times Radio app www.thetimes.co.uk/radio/how-to-listen-to-times-ra…
All Comments (21)
-
If you really want us to fight for our countries, Let us have our country! Let us be able to afford to buy houses and give us the freedom to have families…
-
Try having a country worth fighting for first.
-
The young people are not fighting these old miserable evil men wars. They can send their own damn children. 💯
-
I served 40 yrs back but if I was young now, I would not rally to the colours. It is not my country anymore. Many ex-servicemen feel thus.
-
I wouldn't waste my breath for the corrupt shower that's in parliament right now.
-
Britain's army is pathetically small, its criminal what both parties have done to the military.
-
Although I'm aware that military officers are not supposed to make policy statements, I also think the time comes when it's in the public interest that a general wakes everybody up.
-
I’d rather go to jail
-
Interesting that theres always a possibility for war, but the possibility for diplomacy and dialogue is never initially considered.
-
Disgusting what Labour and Tories have done to our forces.
-
The world needs to wake the F up.
-
Imagine thinking these young people are going to fight for a government that has made their lives miserable.
-
They can count me out. Why would we fight for a country that has betrayed us.
-
He was only being honest.. We're NOT!
-
It's a tiny army, true, but who wants to die for the US or Ukraine?
-
Served on a few ops as Patrick sanders as his engineer recce Sgt in Iraq 07. When he speaks you’d better listen. He’s an incredible leader and his men loved him. As an attached arm I got to observe his battle group from the outside. 4 rifles was an outstanding unit under his command
-
The perception is why would any soldiers go fight a bogus war?
-
“Fascism encourages contempt for democratic institutions, particularly elections, and the rule of law. Instead, it calls on the majority group to turn over power to a strongman and his lieutenants, while glorifying the use of violence in support of fascist myths and goals.” —- Public Leadership Institute, 2022
-
Our governments practically took away our abilities to retire, meaning we have to work until 90+ years old just to survive. That alone is already reason enough to not fight and die for a country like that
-
Stop talking about our hollowed out forces and do something about it. Follow Poland's example and buy external off the peg if necessary. This is all Politicians fault.
