Operation Overstretch: Unfair to the Army
David Ramsbotham, 20 February 2003
“So what is the military aim to which elements of our Army seem likely to be committed? Pre-emptive defence as part of a wider self-defence operation? Who is being threatened? Not the United States or the United Kingdom directly. Israel? Israel has already demonstrated that if it feels itself threatened it takes unilateral action, at once and without question, to eliminate that threat . . . So what justifies the escalation of Iraq to the top of the list of threats to world order?”
