Singer James Blunt 'prevented World War III'
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Strange news story from the weekend about how the singer of the hit 'Beautiful' prevented a 'World War III' situation when he was a soldier.
Blunt and his troops were ordered to take an airbase, but found 200 Russian solider had taken the base first, it was then an order from US Gen Wesley Clark told the Blunt and NATO troops to overpower them.
"He said he had been "party to the conversation" between senior officers in which Gen Clark had ordered the attack.
"We had 200 Russians lined up pointing their weapons at us aggressively, which was... and you know we'd been told to reach the airfield and take a hold of it."-BBC
The event is mentioned in war memoirs, since the troops took the orders from Gen Mike Jackson who remarked he didn't want his soldiers to start WW3. The NATO instead surrounded the airbase and later shared it with the Russian troops. Though Blunt stated he would have ignored Clark's order (if Jackson didn't intervene) and risked a court marshal.
Blunt and his troops were ordered to take an airbase, but found 200 Russian solider had taken the base first, it was then an order from US Gen Wesley Clark told the Blunt and NATO troops to overpower them.
"He said he had been "party to the conversation" between senior officers in which Gen Clark had ordered the attack.
"We had 200 Russians lined up pointing their weapons at us aggressively, which was... and you know we'd been told to reach the airfield and take a hold of it."-BBC
The event is mentioned in war memoirs, since the troops took the orders from Gen Mike Jackson who remarked he didn't want his soldiers to start WW3. The NATO instead surrounded the airbase and later shared it with the Russian troops. Though Blunt stated he would have ignored Clark's order (if Jackson didn't intervene) and risked a court marshal.
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