The Rise and Fall of the British Army 1974 - 2025 - By Ben Barry

The Rise and Fall of the British Army 1975 - 2025

Publisher synopsis

The Rise and Fall of the British Army shows how the high plateau of military achievement was followed by two decades of decline. Poor leadership by British governments and mistakes made in Iraq and Afghanistan led to strategic defeats, and to increasing public opposition to unpopular wars. Cuts to defence funding and botched equipment procurements meant that in 2025 the British Army was only half the size it had been in 1975, but less ready for war and with much of its equipment obsolete.

·      Author: Ben Barry

·      Hardback, 496 pages

·      ISBN: 9781472856340