After co-authoring four books with the Sunday Telegraph's Christopher
Booker, Dr Richard North - the defence analyst behind the Defence of
the Realm blog - has written a blow-by-blow account of Britain's
disastrous occupation of southern Iraq, from the April 2003 invasion
to the withdrawal of all combat troops earlier this year.
As "the central symbol of the British Army's tragic and culpable
ill-preparedness and lack of flexibility in dealing with the Iraq
insurgency", North returns again and again to the controversial role
played by the Snatch Land Rover in what Booker, writing in the
foreword, argues was "one of the most humiliating chapters in the
history of the British Army".
<http://www.zmag.org/znet/viewArticle/22388>Link
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