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Author:   Brigadier (retired) Ben Barry, OBE (Senior Fellow Land Warfare)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Osprey Publishing
Dimensions:   Width: 16.20cm , Height: 4.80cm , Length: 23.60cm
Weight:   0.751kg
ISBN:  

9781472856340

ISBN 10:   1472856341
Pages:   496
Publication Date:   09 October 2025
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

(Subject to confirmation) Chapter One – The Inheritance Chapter Two. Counter-Insurgency – Away and at Home Chapter Three. The War That Never Was (1) Chapter Four. Surprise and Response (1) – The Falklands War Chapter Five. The War That Never Was (2) – The Bagnall Revolution Chapter Six. The Long Haul in Northern Ireland Chapter Seven - Strategic Surprise and Response (2) – Operation Desert Storm Chapter Eight – A New World Disorder 1991–2001 Chapter Nine – Surprise and Response (3) – The Aftermath Of 9/11 Chapter Ten - Unpopular Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan Chapter Eleven – Caution, Contraction and New Threats 2010–20 Chapter Twelve – Recessional 2020–21 Chapter Thirteen – Inconvenient Truths and Uncomfortable Conclusions Bibliography Index

Reviews

Ben Barry combines the intimate knowledge of the insider with the objectivity of the strategic commentator. * Sir Hew Strachan * This highly authoritative book will please professional soldier and interested civilian alike. * Field Marshal Lord David Richards * This timely book is a love letter to the British Army, written by a man whose experience of the army spans all of the five decades under review. * Dr Robert Lyman, co-author of 'Victory to Defeat: The British Army 1918–40' * This is quite simply a superb discussion of the British Army's engagement with thinking and doctrine over recent decades. * Brian Holden Reid, Emeritus Professor of American History and Military Institutions, Department of War Studies, King's College London *

An impressively detailed chronicle by an analyst well up to the task. Read it and weep. * Allan Mallinson, The Spectator * The author is among the best-informed commentators on our armed forces. -- Max Hastings * The Times * Ben Barry combines the intimate knowledge of the insider with the objectivity of the strategic commentator. * Sir Hew Strachan * This highly authoritative book will please professional soldier and interested civilian alike. * Field Marshal Lord David Richards * This timely book is a love letter to the British Army, written by a man whose experience of the army spans all of the five decades under review. * Dr Robert Lyman, co-author of 'Victory to Defeat: The British Army 1918–40' * This is quite simply a superb discussion of the British Army's engagement with thinking and doctrine over recent decades. * Brian Holden Reid, Emeritus Professor of American History and Military Institutions, Department of War Studies, King's College London *

Author Information

Ben Barry served in the British Army and is now Senior Fellow for Land Warfare in the International Institute for Strategic Studies and a visiting professor at the Department of War Studies, Kings College London. His previous title for Osprey was Blood, Metal and Dust, which was shortlisted for The Duke of Wellington Medal for Military History 2021, the British Army Book of the Year 2021, the 2020 Army Historical Foundation Distinguished Writing Award and the Templer Medal Book Prize 2021.

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