General Sir Roly Walker, Chief of the Army General Staff in the UK, has declared that Britons will be required to make sacrifices for their country in a coming war.
He addressed around 700 soldiers at Catterick Garrison and laid out the coming reality in plain terms. “You didn’t know this, but our nation is going to need you,” he said. “There was a time that our nation didn’t want to think of a time when it would need its soldiers to fight in a war. Indeed, very soon, the political leaders of this country will start to have a frank conversation with the citizens of this country about just what is going on and where the risk lies.”
He continued that citizens “have got to consent to sacrifices to prioritise defence and security” and that they will be asked “to play a part in the defence and security of this country.” Ultimately, he said, the public must “back us, to back you to do the one thing that you do that nobody else gets to do and that is to take the fight to the enemy.”
