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Richard Shirreff

General Sir Alexander Richard David Shirreff KCB, CBE is a senior British Army officer. From March 2011 to March 2014, he served as Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Europe.

Ukrainian loyalist fighters from the Azov Battalion stand guard on a hill on the outskirts of Mariupol on August 30, 2014

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Ukraine: Nato is at a crossroads. Where does it go from here?

To protect the reaction to the threat of a massacre has been to drop pallets of supplies

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Richard Shirreff

Ukraine: Nato is at a crossroads. Where does it go from here?

Iraq crisis: A spineless lack of leadership, an abject lack of

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