Top British Army Officer Predicts Civil War as ‘Rabbit in Headlights’ Leaders Incapable of Political Solutions

by Oliver JJ Lane

Retired British Army Colonel Richard Kemp has said the primary risk the UK faces is from an alliance “of the hard left and Islamist extremists” and that he fears civil war because politicians are too myopic to take action.

Colonel Richard Kemp, a high-profile Infantry officer who fought counter insurgency on home ground in Northern Ireland in the 1980s, served in the Gulf war and Bosnia, commanded an Afghanistan operation, and who had political-facing senior roles in Westminster including the powerful Joint Intelligence Committee and the Cabinet Office crisis centre COBRA, has expressed concern about unrest and even civil war potentially breaking out in Britain.

The Colonel’s comments in many regards echo those by top academic David Betz, professor of war in the modern world at King’s College London’s prestigious War Studies department, who says his research has led him to believe the classic preconditions for civil war are already present in many Western nations, and particularly the UK.

Yet Kemp’s interviewer, podcaster Conor Tomlinson, related after it was taped at the MCC Feszt conference in Hungary earlier this month that Colonel Kemp had never heard of Professor Betz or his predictions, and had arrived at his views independently, which he suggested “makes his well-informed warnings all the more alarming”.

full story at https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2025/08/16/top-army-officer-predicts-civil-war-as-leaders-incapable-of-solutions/

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