We Should Look To Our Moat

About the Book

These essays suggest it is necessary, despite Britains great past, to concentrate for a while on re-establishing a nation at peace with itself, before embarking on more overseas adventures.

About the Author

War service was in HMSs Hood, Naiad (sunk 1942), Duke of York (Flagship British Pacific Fleet). 1947 was spent as schools liaison officer and 1948 studying petroleum at Birmingham University before becoming Chairman of the Benelux and NATO Fuels and Lubricants Standardisation Committee and Secretary of Lord Geddes' Committee on naval fuel and lubricants supplies. The next 18 months was as chief engineer and staff officer to the C in C South and West African Station in HMS Bermuda.

He was co-advisor to the Mansergh Committee resurrecting the General List of Officers absurdly abandoned by the Admiralty in 1925. Service in personnel affairs included the new Naval Engineering College, (It's 100 acre campus sold off by the Conservatives and denied to Plymouth University in 1994) and Secretaryship of Lord Murray's Committee on officer entry and training. Assistant Engineer in Chief (personnel) preceded naval assistant to the Third Sea Lord and Controller then engaged in the biggest post war building programme including the first nuclear submarine.

A year at the Imperial Defence College preceded deputy director of marine engineering, liaison with Messrs Urwick Orr, naval attaché and Commander British Naval Staff, Washington DC, deputy chief of defence staff (Intelligence) and early retirement and knighthood, Director General of Intelligence, MOD. Final retirement involved Vice Chairman, Institute for the Study of Conflict and Chairman of Governors, Rendcomb College. He has published three books "The Man Around the Engine" (Kenneth Mason), "From Fisher to the Falklands" (Marine Management Holdings Ltd) and "Old Loves Return" (Pentland Press).