Holmes & Gen Sir Rupert Smith (Hay - 2006)
Holmes & Gen Sir Rupert Smith
Richard Holmes and General Sir Rupert Smith
Holmes reports from his regiment’s frontline tour of duty in Iraq, on the day to day experience of infantrymen in 2006 in his Dusty Warriors: Modern Soldiers at War. His experience commanding in the Gulf War, UNPROFOR and Kossovo informs The Utility of Force: The Art of War in the Modern World, Smith’s radical exploration of conflicts fought no longer as industrial absolute war, but as war ‘among the people’.