1SL – Soldier an’ Sailor too!

By Lt Gen Sir Robert Fry

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With the war in Ukraine escalating into a European ‘grey zone’ conflict, the author considers the First Sea Lord fit to the task of reestablishing Britain’s maritime role in terms of NATO strategy, recognition of a leadership situation different yet similar to that of the early 20th century. A 10 minute read.

They turn up about once a century, these naval iconoclasts. Nelson’s credentials need no elaboration but from the maverick independence at Cape St Vincent to the audacity at the Nile; from the wilfulness at Copenhagen to the decisive brilliance at Trafalgar, he set out a warfighting stall that was quite different from any contemporary, on either side. To observe that he was also no slave to social convention draws the lightest of veils across his dalliances at Naples and thereafter. In just about every dimension of his existence, Nelson broke moulds. A hundred years later, Jackie Fisher would…

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