As this summer draws to a close, it is important to remember how perilously close the West came to catastrophe exactly 70 years ago.
While I was visiting London in July, a British friend said, “This summer marks the 70th anniversary of the Battle of Britain, but you wouldn’t know it by reading the press.”
In fact, the new Conservative-Liberal-Democratic coalition government led by Prime Minister David Cameron has been more focused on fiscal woes. Britain’s new Defence minister is saying massive cuts in military spending are on the way. read the story