Saturday afternoon talk with Brigadier (Retd) Ben Barry OBE
Over the last 50 years, society, technology, the character of conflict and the British Army itself have all change greatly. From a low point in the 1970s, the Army’s war fighting capability increased during the 1980s in the face of a prospective war with the Soviet Union. It then continued to evolve through conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, right up to the current challenges the Army faces today.
In his book “The Rise and Fall of the British Army 1975-2025” Ben Barry draws on his own personal experience, as well as a wide range of new sources to set out a new interpretation the Army’s recent evolution hat challenges previous narratives.
Ben Barry is Fellow for Defence and Military Analysis at the International Institute for Strategic Studies. Before this, he served in the Army, where he commanded an armoured infantry battalion and a multinational brigade on United Nations and Nato operations in Bosnia. He is the author of ‘Blood, Metal and Dust: How Victory Turned into Defeat in Afghanistan and Iraq’.
Your talk ticket includes museum gallery admission on the day.
