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General Sir Richard Shirreff Ret., former deputy Supreme Allied Commander of Europe speaks on "2017: War with Russia:" the possibility of conflict between Russia and NATO.
General Sir Richard Shirreff Ret. former deputy Supreme Allied Commander of Europe speaks on"2017: War with Russia:"the possibility of conflict between Russia and NATO.
"Shirreff, who until retiring two years ago was Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Europe, the most senior European officer in NATO, has a simple message: “the political and military decisions we are currently making, and have already made, are now propelling us into a future war with Russia”. This is his fictionalized account of what that war might look like." [Financial Times]
Shirreff was born in Kenya in 1955 where he spent his early years. Educated in England at Oundle and Exeter College, Oxford (Modern History), he was commissioned from Sandhurst into the 14th/20th King’s Hussars in 1978. He has commanded on operations at every level from platoon to division. This has included combat in the Gulf War of 1991 as a tank squadron leader, counter-insurgency operations in the infantry role in Northern Ireland (three tours), together with Iraq and Kosovo. His regimental service was spent in Germany, Canada, the United Kingdom, Northern Ireland, the Gulf and, while attached to 6th Queen Elizabeth’s Own Gurkha Rifles for a year, Hong Kong and Brunei. He qualified as a military parachutist in 2005.
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