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List of British generals and brigadiers
This is a list of people who have held general officer rank or the rank of brigadier (together now recognized as starred officers) in the British Army, Royal Marines, British Indian Army or other British military force since the Acts of Union
See also Category:British generals – note that a "Brigadier" is not classed as a "general" in the British Army, despite being a NATO 1-star equivalent rank.[1] Prior to the mid to lates, British ranks used a hyphen.
Hence, in the lists below:
- 1* = Brigadier-general/Brigadier
- 2* = Major-general (prior to s)/Major general (mids onwards)
- 3* = Lieutenant-general (prior to s)/Lieutenant general (mids onwards)
- 4* = General
- 5* = Field marshal
(dates after the name are birth and death)
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[edit]- Major-General Henry Richard Abadie (—), General Officer Commanding (GOC).
- Major-General Herbert Edward Stacy Abbott (—), Indian Army
- General Sir James Abbott (—), Indian Army
- Brigadier Burton Edward Abbott[2] (—), 13th Frontier Force, Indian Army
- Brigadier Leonard Henry Abbott[3] (—), Deputy Assistant (DA) & Quartermaster General (QMG)
- Brigadier-General Anthony Abdy (—), DA & QMG
- Brigadier Sir Alexander Abel Smith (—)
- General James Abercrombie (—),
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Even in Iraq, all politics is local
First published in The New York Times
In a deserted maze of narrow gorges in the central mountains of Afghanistan, I turned a corner and saw a tower. It rose feet, a slim column of intricately carved terra cotta set with a line of turquoise tiles. There was nothing else. The mountain walls formed a tight circle around it, and at its base two rivers, descending from high mountain passes, ran through the ravines into wilderness.
I was crossing Afghanistan on foot, and it had taken me two weeks to walk to this spot from Herat, the principal city of western Afghanistan. The valley of Jam, as the area is called, was a place of relative tranquillity, protected by high mountains from the pro-Taliban feudal lord to the south and the anti-Taliban feudal lord to the north. There was no human in sight, no sound, no sign of the last 24 years of Afghan war. There was only a tower of pale, slender bricks, more than years old according to an inscription at the top of the tower. A dense chain of pentagons, hexagons and diamonds wound round the column. And in Persian blue tiles, the color of an Afghan winter sky, on the neck of the tower, the words: &#;Ghiyath al-Din Muhammad, King of Kings&#;&#;
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