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General Sir Rupert Anthony Smith, KCB, DSO & Bar, OBE, QGM (born 13 December 1943) is a retired British Army officer and author of The Utility of Force.
The Utility of Force: The Art of War in the Modern World is a treatise on modern warfare written by General Sir Rupert Smith and published in 2005.
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General Sir Rupert Smith served in the British Army in East and South Africa, Arabia, the Caribbean, Europe and Malaysia before commanding, as a major-general, the British 1st Armoured Division during the Gulf War.
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Feb 12, 2008 · From a highly decorated general, a brilliant new way of understanding war and its role in the twenty-first century. Drawing on his vast experience as a commander during the first Gulf War, and in...
General Sir Rupert Smith is a senior international authority on defence, security, strategy and geopolitics. He has extensive experience in advising governments, corporations and the private sector on defence and security planning and spending, and on evolving strategies.
Feb 4, 2007 · Now comes Rupert Smith, whose “Utility of Force” seeks to update Clausewitz for our own times. Smith, too, has learned as much from defeat as from victory.
Oct 29, 2019 · General Sir Rupert Smith is one of the most senior international practitioners in the use of force. In his forty year career in the British Army he commanded the UK Armoured Division in the...
