Mike Jackson Quotes
Intervention continues to be a prominent dimension of the post-cold war world.
Jackson, Mike. "Defence of the Realm in the 21st Century." The Richard Dimbleby Lecture, BBC, 6 Dec. 2006.
This is a variant of a famous Clauswitz quotation {635143}.
The documentation of this quotation comes from a memorandum summarizing the meeting written by Presidential aide Harry Hopkins.
General Sir Michael David Jackson, GCB, CBE, DSO, DL is a retired British Army officer and one of its most high-profile generals since the Second World War. Originally commissioned into the Intelligence Corps in 1963, he transferred to the Parachute Regiment in 1970, with which he served two of his three tours of duty in Northern Ireland. On his first, he was present as an adjutant at the events of the Ballymurphy massacre (1971), where 11 unarmed civilians were shot dead by British troops, and then at Bloody Sunday (1972), when British soldiers opened fire on protesters, killing 14. On his second, he was a company commander in the aftermath of the Warrenpoint ambush (1979), the British Army's heaviest single loss of life during the Troubles. He was assigned to a staff post at the Ministry of Defence (MoD) in 1982 before assuming command of the 1st Battalion, Parachute Regiment, in 1984. Jackson was posted to Northern Ireland for the third time, as a brigade commander, in the early 1990s.
