I had the good luck to meet Colonel Richard Iron a couple of months ago. He was the kind of typically self-effacing British Army officer who one underestimates at ones peril.
Iron currently commands the UK Army’s Doctrine Branch in the Directorate of Land Warfare. His philosophy is summed in something he told the Telegraph in summer, 2008 about Iraq: “We have made some terrible mistakes … and it is only by talking about them that we will learn from them.” Continue reading
