Makes you proud to be Scottish (and British). Thank god there were no bleeding heart liberalists in the cabinet back in those days.

It's a pity that our current government has seen fit to cut our armies, and at a time when they are deploying them more and more.

Makes me WANT to be Scottish.

However, my friend, it has nothing to do with "bleeding heart liberalists" as you call it and EVERYTHING to do with intelligent , realistic and well informed leadership, something today's world is sorely lacking.

When I attended the military academies in Latin America, this campaign was the textbook example of exactly HOW a counter-insurgency should be fought. We were too young to deploy in time to make a difference in the US-in-Vietnam-style of dirty wars we saw. Sadly, Britain forgot those lessons and the achievements of these units and the US, well..... one word for it and it starts with I, you know what I mean?

There is an old saying that history is not and never has been a glacier of unquestioned facts since history is more like jelly that never jells.one can take any dramatic incident and it will produce a rash of events. for example. since 1945 the rights and wrongs of the Nuremberg Trials are still debated today. and it's the same today with the present Israel/Lebanon war. simply because discovering the 'WHY' of history is more difficult than just describing the events.

Ho Yes a great Bunsh of lads, Some of my Muckers were there, I came out 3 months before this parade, But they were a great fighting force,

Proud to have a Scottish wife and daughter born at the DRI.
Things were simpler then; black was black and white was white. There weren't a lot of shades of gray.
Today's 24hour news cycle "colors" those with evil intent so that we are now able to accept those using civilians as human shields and the like, and find ourselves tolerating it
The story provides a great example of insightful leadership and the British "can do" spirit.
Leaders were able to take action back then because it was the right thing to do, not worrying about what the polls would show, all in the great tradition of Winston Churchill.