Graeme Lamb

A three-star general, he is the former Director of the United Kingdom’s Special Forces (UKSF) the UK, albeit smaller equivalent of the US Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC). His operational experience is truly global having been deployed, or in direct support of those deployments, to virtually all the UK’s major conflicts since 1973. His close working relationship with the US has broadened that experience, GEN Stan McChrystal’s assessment, “I knew of no one else who possessed both the agile, pragmatic mind, and the unmistakable presence but if anyone were to make it work, Graeme was the one of a handful in either American or British militaries that could.”

Considered to be “a particularly aggressive general” with a reputation for “toughness and blasphemous plain speaking” General Lamb is widely recognised for his intimate appreciation for Hobbes’s view of man as “reconcilable and irreconcilable” actors in modern conflict.

Thirty Eight Years of Service. The son of a WWII veteran, Lamb graduated from The Royal Military Academy Sandhurst in 1973. He went on to command extensively on operations Conventional, Airborne, and Special Forces throughout his career. He completed his service as The Commander of the British Field Army – responsible for all those forces committed to operations.