British Army Chief Reluctant Towards Military Intervention in Syria
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In an interview with The British Daily Telegraph, Chief of the British Army General Sir David Richards said, "If you want to have the material impact on the Syrian regime's calculations that some people seek" then "ground targets" would have to be "hit".
Richards, who ended his military career on Wednesday, warned that the Government needs to clarify its "political objective" in Syria before a coherent military plan can be recommended.
"There is a lack of international consensus on how to take this forward," Richards remarked.
"We are trying to cohere the opposition groups, but they are difficult to cohere because there are many different dimensions to them," he added.
Moreover, the chief of the British Army warned that introducing a no-fly zone on its own would not prove effective and that other military measures would be required.
Richards further said, "If you wanted to have the material impact on the Syrian regime's calculations that some people seek, a no fly zone per se is insufficient."
"You have to be able, as we did successfully in Libya, to hit ground targets," he stated.
"We are looking at Syria much more from a regional perspective and making sure that as awful as things are there it doesn't spread materially to other countries like Lebanon and Jordan," the Chief of the British Army commented in an interview with the British daily.
Source: The Daily Telegraph, edited by website team
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