Rise and Fall of the British Army, 1975–2025

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Häftad, Engelska, 2026

AvBen Barry OBE,Brigadier Ben Barry

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A new study of a critical period in the history of the British Army.'An impressively detailed chronicle by an analyst well up to the task. Read it and weep.' Allan Mallinson, The Spectator The last half century has seen society, technology, the character of conflict and the British Army itself all change greatly. From a low point in the 1970s, the Army’s war fighting capability increased in the 1980s in the face of a prospective war with the Soviet Union. This capability was then tested on operations from Kuwait in 1991 through to Afghanistan in 2001 and the 2003 invasion of Iraq.There followed two decades of descent from this high plateau of military achievement. Mistakes made in Iraq and Afghanistan led to a decline in support for military deployments. Cuts to defence funding and botched equipment procurements also meant the British Army of 2021 was only half the size of that of 1970, and with much key fighting equipment either obsolete or approaching obsolescence.Ben Barry served in the Army from 1975 to 2010, often in key staff appointments, and has worked closely with the Army in the following decade. This new study draws not only on his personal experience, but also on a very wide range of written sources complemented by interviews to provide a new interpretation of this period that challenges the existing narratives.

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Utgivningsdatum2026-11-05
Mått129 x 198 x undefined mm
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor496
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN9781472856388

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Ben Barry served in the British Army and is now Senior Fellow for Land Warfare in the International Institute for Strategic Studies and a visiting professor at the Department of War Studies, Kings College London. His previous title for Osprey was Blood, Metal and Dust, which was shortlisted for The Duke of Wellington Medal for Military History 2021, the British Army Book of the Year 2021, the 2020 Army Historical Foundation Distinguished Writing Award and the Templer Medal Book Prize 2021.

AcknowledgementsList of IllustrationsList of MapsIntroduction1. Naming of Parts2. The Crucible for the Cold War (1): 1970–803. Rapid Intervention (1): The Birth of Zimbabwe, the Iranian Embassy Siege and the Falklands War4. The Crucible of the Cold War (2): The Bagnall Revolution5. Operation Banner: The Army in Northern Ireland6. Operation Desert Storm7. Bloody Bosnia8. Kosovo9. Rapid Intervention (2): Africa, East Timor, Sierra Leone and Macedonia10. Rapid Intervention (3): Afghanistan11. Regime Change in Iraq and Initial Stabilization12. ‘We Are in Two Wars and we Have Got to Win Them Both’13. Strategic Shrinkage and the Endgame in Afghanistan, 2009–1414. A Decade of Defeat, Decline and DisruptionPostscript: How the Army Can Succeed in the FutureSelect GlossarySelect BibliographyEndnotesIndex