Sublime

when the United States entered World War II, US Army chief of staff General George C. Marshall dismissed three-quarters of division and corps commanders and five hundred colonels during the course of the four-year conflict.8 However, by the time President Johnson was the commander in chief, the careful promotion system of Secretary of Defense Rober

The ethos of blitzkrieg was “speed of attack through speed of communications.”

The inaugural parade of 30 Commando Information Exploitation Group Royal Marines took place on a very cold, bright morning, 13 December 2010, at Stonehouse Barracks in Plymouth. The name 30 Commando was chosen in tribute to the forgotten men of Fleming’s 30 Commando/30 Assault Unit, and the secretary of the 30AU old comrades’ association, Mrs Diann

Gubbins had won his MC as a gunner in the First World War, fought against the Bolsheviks in revolutionary Russia and against Sinn Fein in the Irish Civil War of 1922–3, and spoke French, Russian and Urdu.

“Division, corps, and army commanders must be capable of sitting in front of a map and dictating a complete field order,” Conner proclaimed.

When Colonel Gubbins sailed from Glasgow to Norway on 4 May with his Independent Companies, one of his two intelligence officers was Quintin Riley, whose earlier attempt to come to Norway with the 5th Scots Guards had been aborted, and the other was Riley’s good friend and future brother-in-law Captain Andrew Croft. The two men were both veterans o

Home to some of the fittest and most mentally resilient humans on the planet, it’s a sacred place for many of Britain’s bravest soldiers.