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August 31, 2015

Britain: Ret. Gen. David Richards - Ukraine, Syria, Libya

SOURCE
https://www.politicshome.com/foreign-and-defence/articles/story/former-military-chief-cameron-lacked-balls-over-syria
POLITICS.HOME
Written by
agnes.chambre

Last updated
30.08.15
Posted on:
30.08.15
Former military chief: Cameron lacked balls over Syria

A former military chief has accused David Cameron of allowing the rise of Islamic State by not crushing the group militarily.

General Lord Richards of Herstmonceux, who was chief of defence staff from October 2010 to July 2013, said the Prime Minister had “lacked balls” to take action against the extremist group when it first arose.

He told Sir Anthony Seldon in a new biography of Mr Cameron that the Prime Minister was more interested in persuing a “Notting Hill liberal agenda” than “statecraft”.

The peer added: "In Ukraine, as in Syria and Libya, there is a clear lack of strategy and statecraft. The problem is the inability to think things through."

Lord Richards also announced last year that Mr Cameron had rejected a “coherent military strategy” for taking on Syrian president Bashar al Assad, which he claimed would have seen the Islamic extremists "squeezed out of existence".
SOURCE
https://www.politicshome.com/foreign-and-defence/articles/story/former-military-chief-cameron-lacked-balls-over-syria

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Gen David Richards
Baron Richards of Herstmonceux

retired senior British Army officer
formerly the Chief of the Defence Staff
(ie professional head of the British Armed Forces)

University College, Cardiff, 1974
a degree in international relations

Royal Artillery
  • Far East
  • Germany
  • United Kingdom
  • x3 tours in Northern Ireland
1998 - Chief of Joint Force Operations
at Permanent Joint Headquarters
Permanent Joint Headquarters (PJHQ)
British tri-service HQ (army, navy, airforce)

plans & controls all overseas military ops 

Commanded by: Chief of Joint Operations (CJO)

est. 1996 to:

re:  UK-led joint, potentially joint & multi-national ops
purpose to:
  1. enhance the operational effectiveness and efficiency 
  2. exercise command of UK forces assigned to multinational ops led by others
Source
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permanent_Joint_Headquarters
1999
UK Contingent in East Timor as part of INTERFET

2000
twice commanded a UK Joint Task Force in Sierra Leone

2006 (Jul)
command  International Security Assistance Force (ISAF)
in southern Afghanistan
was passed to NATO forces
under his command
Richards promoted to the acting rank of full general (4-star)

2009
widely criticised
re claim British troops may have a role in Afghanistan for up to 40 years

2009
Chief of the General Staff (professional head of Army)

2010
Says:
intelligence & security agencies dealing with Middle East
/ do not want to open another [military] front but may be necessary

2011
General David Richards
( + other senior NATO officers)
  • sought backing from NATO member states
to intensify the war effort Libya
by directly targeting Col Gaddafi's govt
instead of merely 'protecting' Libyan civilians
Said:
"The United Nations resolution allows NATO to 'use all necessary means' in Libya"

Syrian Civil War
Richards drew up plans
to train and equip a Syrian rebel army of 100,000
to overthrow President Bashar al-Assad, 
as alternative to UK govt’s plan for limited direct military involvement
Plans rejected by the National Security Council (NSC) as too ambitious
National Security Council  (NSC)
(United Kingdom)
est. 12 May 2010 by PM David Cameron

purpose:  coordinate responses to 'threats' to UK

NSC
= a Cabinet Committee
ovesees all issues re:
  • national security
  • intelligence coordination
  • defence strategy
terms of reference:
  • national security
  • foreign policy
  • defence
  • international relations
  • international development
  • resilience
  • energy
  • resource security
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Security_Council_%28United_Kingdom%2

2013 (Aug)
UK parliament refused to support the govt's plan to participate in military strikes against the Syrian govt.

David Cameron 'knew British pilots were bombing Syria'

MoD admits UK personnel carry out Syrian bombings, despite Parliament not authorising action, by being embedded with allied nations - latest reaction

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/defence/11745689/British-pilots-in-air-strikes-against-Isil-in-Syria-live.html

Other:

2013

Ret. Gen David Richards
=  a Senior Adviser to the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS)

patron of the Armed Forces Muslim Association

2014 (Jun) - Richards said that Britain's Armed Forces will be like a banana republic's if the Ministry of Defence kept cutting costs

2014 (Oct) - says Western strategy of air strikes on ISIS insufficient. 

Spouse:   trustee of charities Plant for Peace and The Afghan Appeal

SOURCE - above (unless otherwise marked)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Richards,_Baron_Richards_of_Herstmonceux
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COMMENT

Well, that was an interesting read.

Was curious about the publication:  PoliticsHome.
Publication is under the umbrella of a publicly listed media company.  But I don't know who has controlling share of the company.

Thought it was funny that there's the retired general, pro more taxpayer funding of the military, and pro British military interventions etc, while his missus is involved in some 'Plant for Peace' charity and an Afghan charity.  

The NSC response to 'threats' to UK would largely be related to formulating response to challenges to the interests of British corporations and British corporate agendas abroad (and those of their allies), rather than to actual physical threats to the British isles.  

The NSC terms of reference are interesting.  As I see it, it pretty much sets out the scope of support by government for UK corporate agenda interests abroad. 
terms of reference:
  • national security
  • foreign policy
  • defence
  • international relations
  • international development
  • resilience
  • energy
  • resource security
Wonder what 'resilience' covers?

Interesting that the British have got an eye on Ukraine, in addition to the Middle East.  

Surely the Americans can handle sustaining control of Ukraine, post CIA coup, on their own?

PS  ... don't know what 'security agencies' are, if they're distinct from 'intelligence' and if they're not military.  What is the distinction, I wonder?