“This is our 1937 moment,” said General Sir Patrick Sanders, the new head of the British army, yesterday. “We are not at war, but we must act rapidly so that we aren’t drawn into one through a failure to contain territorial expansion.”
Citing Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery, who in 1937 called for the army to break from its peacetime routine and prepare to confront Hitler, Sanders urged the British army to “mobilise to meet today’s threat and thereby prevent war in Europe”.
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