Guy Gibson VC:
Why must we make war every 25 years?
Well we haven't, that is not the kind of global wars he was referring to presumably. The reason why we haven't hasn't been any great change in "the people themselves", for as he says they forget or more accurately newer generations, too young or unborn then, "forget" what they never truly experienced. The reason for the prolonged peace that we have enjoyed and that he yearned for lies with the very RAF Command in which he served, and latterly the Royal Navy. For it is "the bomb" that has kept the peace, I would suggest. Whether it will continue to do so only time will tell, but the repeated claims that this country does not face foreseeable direct military threats to itself and therefore can run down its military capabilities, including possibly the nuclear deterrent itself, are misguided and dangerous. It is not the RAF that needs to "get it" but the nation itself, lest the schools and hospitals that it prizes above all else end up as smouldering ruins along with everything else.